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How compliant is your business, really?

Work through 21 plain-English checks covering fire, first aid, policies, training and ongoing management. You get a compliance score and a priority action list the moment you finish — nothing to fill in first.

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1Fire safety

Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 · Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006
Fire risk assessment
Suitable and sufficient, and kept current.
⏱ Review annually & after any change
Fire detection & alarms
In place, suitable for the building, and maintained.
⏱ User test weekly · service 6-monthly
Emergency lighting
Working across escape routes and final exits.
⏱ Monthly flick test · annual full duration test
Fire extinguishers
Correct types for the risks, accessible and signed.
⏱ Service annually · extended service 5-yearly
Escape routes & signage
Clear, unobstructed and properly signed.
⏱ Check ongoing
Staff fire awareness
Everyone knows the alarm, the route and the assembly point.
⏱ Refresh roughly annually · drill at least annually

2First aid

Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981
First-aid needs assessment
Matched to your risk level, headcount and layout.
⏱ Review after any change
Enough trained first-aiders
Covering all shifts, sites and holiday absence.
⏱ Requalify every 3 years
Stocked, in-date first-aid kits
With a named person responsible for restocking.
⏱ Check monthly
Accident recording & RIDDOR
Accident book kept; reportable incidents understood.
⏱ RIDDOR: report within legal timescales

3Policies & documents

Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
Written health & safety policy
Legally required once you have 5 or more employees.
⏱ Review annually
Risk assessments
Covering your significant hazards, and actually used.
⏱ Review annually & on change
COSHH assessments
Wherever hazardous substances are used or created.
⏱ Review on change of substance or process
Legionella risk assessment
For your water systems — commonly missed.
⏱ Review roughly every 2 years
Employers' liability insurance
In place, with the certificate available to staff.
⏱ Renew annually

4Training & competence

Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Health & safety inductions
For the role and the site, before work starts.
⏱ On joining
Role-specific training
Manual handling, IOSH/SSSTS, asbestos awareness, work at height.
⏱ Refresh every 1–3 years
Training records
Kept centrally with refresher dates tracked.
⏱ Keep current

5Ongoing management

Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Named responsible person
Someone owns health & safety day to day.
⏱ Ongoing
Review dates diarised
So assessments, servicing and certificates do not lapse.
⏱ Set reminders
Contractors managed
CDM duties met for construction and refurbishment work.
⏱ Per project
Review cycles shown are best-practice guides. Some intervals are risk-based rather than fixed in law, so the right frequency can vary by premises — that is exactly what a free consultation sorts out.
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