Eleven tools that do the working out for you
Guided tools that turn UK health and safety duties into a clear answer and a printable record. Five are one-off downloads you run offline; six more are free to use online. No subscriptions, no logins, no spreadsheets.
Downloadable risk assessment tools £29 one-off
Five tools covering the assessments people repeat most — display screen equipment, slips and trips, working at height, and hot and cold working. Each is a single self-contained file you download once and run offline on any device: buy once, keep for good, re-run for every desk, site or season. No subscription and no account.
Display Screen Equipment
DSE Workstation Assessment Tool
Assess any display screen workstation — office, home or hybrid — against the HSE checklist, flag what needs fixing, and produce the record.
- All six HSE workstation checklist areas
- Per-workstation and organisation modes
- Covers home and hybrid setups
- Flags the ‘5+ employees’ recording duty
£29 + VAT · one-off
Buy the DSE tool ↗
Slips, Trips & Falls
Slips, Trips & Falls Risk Assessment Tool
Walk an area, flag the hazards against the HSE slip-and-trip framework, and get a recorded action plan — for the UK’s most common workplace injury.
- Eight HSE hazard categories per area
- Contamination, housekeeping, floors, stairs and more
- A specific control action for every hazard
- Printable record with review date
£29 + VAT · one-off
Buy the Slips & Trips tool ↗
Working at Height
Working at Height Risk Assessment Tool
Plan any work-at-height task through the Regulation 6 hierarchy — avoid, prevent, minimise — and catch the failures the HSE prosecutes most often.
- Walks the Work at Height Regulations 2005 hierarchy in order
- Flags PPE-first, no rescue plan and fragile surfaces
- Branches by access type and roof/public exposure
- Printable action plan with review date
£29 + VAT · one-off
Buy the Working at Height tool ↗
Thermal Comfort
Workplace Heat Risk Assessment Tool
Assess the risk of working in heat using the HSE six-factor thermal framework, with controls and a printable record — for summer, heatwaves and hot processes.
- Air temperature, radiant heat, humidity, work rate and more
- Hydration and vulnerable-worker checks
- Action checklist with sign-off
- Printable record with review date
£29 + VAT · one-off
Buy the Heat tool ↗
Thermal Comfort
Workplace Cold Risk Assessment Tool
The winter counterpart — assess cold-working risk including wind chill, wet conditions and the 16°C/13°C benchmarks, with cold-specific controls.
- Wind chill, wet-cold and exposure factors
- HAVS and ice/slip hazard prompts
- Action checklist with sign-off
- Printable record with review date
£29 + VAT · one-off
Buy the Cold tool ↗Why a guided tool, not a blank template?
A free template hands you an empty form and assumes you already know the answers. That’s where the hours go — and where hazards get missed. Here’s the difference.
The blank-template way
With the tool
Also free to use No cost
Six further tools run in your browser at no cost, with no signup and no download. The First Aid Needs Assessment runs here on this site; the other five open on envicourse.com. These sit alongside posters, signs, tests and downloads on our free health and safety resources hub. Five of them apply the relevant HSE framework to a few plain questions about your workplace and give you a defensible answer with a dated record you can print and file; the sixth does the arithmetic on where a group course is cheapest to hold.
First Aid Needs Assessment
Works out how many first aiders you need and whether they should hold EFAW or FAW — the question the Regulations never answer with a number.
- Applies the HSE risk-and-headcount framework
- Flags shift, lone-worker and continuity gaps
- Covers paediatric and early-years duties
- Printable record with sign-off
Free no signup
Run the assessment →Health & Safety Training Matrix
Works out which training duties apply from what your business actually does — split into legally required and recommended, with the reason each one is there.
- Covers 79 course types by sector and role
- Per-person records with expiry tracking
- Flags what has lapsed and what is due
- Exports the full register as a PDF
Free no signup
Build your matrix ↗HAVS Exposure Calculator
Works out daily exposure points and your A(8) value from the tools your team actually uses, and shows which one is dominating the day.
- Applies the HSE exposure points system
- 32 tool types with indicative magnitudes
- Shows the duties the result triggers
- Printable dated record
Free no signup
Calculate exposure ↗Asbestos Duty to Manage Checker
Works out whether the Regulation 4 duty falls on you, what it actually requires, and where your current arrangements fall short.
- Applies Regulation 4, Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
- Covers the pre-2000 presumption and survey types
- Checks register, risk assessment and written plan
- Printable record with review date
Free no signup
Check your duty ↗F10 Notification Checker
Works out whether your project is notifiable to the HSE under CDM 2015, who must be appointed in writing, and which documents the project needs.
- Applies the Regulation 6 notification test
- Covers the 30-day/20-worker and 500 person-day thresholds
- Maps client, principal designer and principal contractor duties
- Printable record plus an F10 data prep sheet
Free no signup
Check notifiability ↗Group Training Travel Cost Calculator
Works out which of your sites costs the group least to reach, and what hiring a venue would have to beat before it is worth doing.
- Compares every site on total group mileage and cost per head
- Costs at your own rate — HMRC 55p is the default
- Flags the longest single journey and who is making it
- Per-person rates for anyone on the train or not claiming
Free no signup
Compare your sites ↗Exactly which parts it takes off your plate
A risk assessment has five steps. These tools don’t replace your judgement of your own workplace — they remove everything around it that makes the job slow. Here’s who does what.
Spot the hazards
The tool prompts every category the framework covers; you confirm what’s present on your site.
Decide who could be harmed
You bring the knowledge of your people, visitors and site; the tool asks the right questions.
Evaluate the risk
The hardest step, done for you — it applies the framework’s logic and gives a risk level with the reasoning shown.
Record your findings
A dated, printable assessment is generated automatically — the document an inspector or insurer asks to see.
Review it later
Re-run it next year or after a change in minutes, instead of starting over.
What these tools give you
- It does the thinking. A blank checklist leaves you to interpret the regulations. These tools apply the framework to your answers and tell you what the result means.
- You get a record, not just a form. Every assessment tool produces a dated, printable record you can file as evidence the assessment was carried out — exactly what an inspector or insurer asks to see.
- Built on HSE guidance. The logic follows the relevant HSE frameworks and regulations — these are independent tools built on published guidance, not official HSE products and not a substitute for professional judgement.
- Free to try, paid to keep. Six tools are free to use online with no signup. The paid five are self-contained files with no subscription, no account and no internet needed after download — re-run them for every site, desk or season.
Frequently asked questions
Which tools are free?
Six, and they need no signup: the First Aid Needs Assessment, the Health and Safety Training Matrix, the HAVS Exposure Calculator, the Asbestos Duty to Manage Checker, the F10 Notification Checker, and the Group Training Travel Cost Calculator. They run in your browser at no cost, and nothing you enter is stored on our servers. The five paid tools cover display screen equipment, slips and trips, working at height, and workplace heat and cold.
Are these tools a substitute for a professional risk assessment?
No. They are assessment aids that structure and record your own assessment using the relevant HSE framework. They give you a defensible starting point and a printable record, but the final judgement rests with you as the employer, and a competent person should review the findings for complex or higher-risk situations.
Are they approved or endorsed by the HSE?
No. The tools are built on Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance and the relevant UK regulations, but they are independent products and are not endorsed by or affiliated with the HSE or any other body.
How are the tools delivered, and do I need to install anything?
The free tools run in your browser — nothing to download and no account to create. Each paid tool is an instant digital download: a single HTML file that opens in any modern web browser on a PC, Mac, tablet or phone. There is nothing to install and no subscription, and once downloaded the paid tools work completely offline.
Can I use one tool for more than one site or workstation?
Yes. The tools are yours to keep and re-run as many times as you need — for each site, desk, shift or season — and to review whenever your staffing, activities or workstations change.
Which tool works out the cost of training a whole team?
The Group Training Travel Cost Calculator. Enter where your people travel from and the sites you could use, and it works out which option costs the group least in travel, the cost per head at your own mileage rate, and the longest single journey. It covers travel only — course fees, room hire and catering are excluded — which is usually the part a training budget never accounts for.
Where do I get them?
The First Aid Needs Assessment runs here on this site. The other ten sit on envicourse.com, Envico’s training marketplace, which opens in a new tab when you select a tool. The remaining free tools run in your browser straight away; the five paid tools are instant digital downloads. As well as these tools, envicourse.com offers thousands of UK health, safety and professional training courses. Both envico-online.com and envicourse.com are operated by Envico Limited.
These digital tools are assessment aids built on published HSE guidance; they do not constitute legal advice and are not a substitute for a suitable and sufficient risk assessment or professional judgement. Except where a tool runs on this site, tools are hosted, and any purchases completed, on envicourse.com. Both sites are operated by Envico Limited.