Health & safety management built for UK practice. Free.
Risk assessments, RIDDOR, permits, inspections, COSHH and the audit trail that stands up when someone unsympathetic reads it — designed around the working reality of the UK health and safety professional.
A working system in minutes, not a blank database
- Sign in with your work email. A one-time code — no password to make up, phish or forget.
- Answer three questions about the organisation and what it does.
- Start working. A legal register scoped to your sector, draft risk assessments ready for your review, starter inspection checklists, and a QR incident-reporting poster your team can use the same afternoon — no accounts needed on the shop floor.
Everything the platform drafts is marked machine-drafted and stays a draft until a competent person reviews and signs it. FreeHS does the typing; you do the thinking.
Built around the job, not around software
One worklist that tells the truth
Today orders everything by consequence — live safety first, statutory clocks second. RIDDOR deadlines, enforcement notices and overdue thorough examinations can never be snoozed; everything else can, with a recorded reason.
RIDDOR decided properly
A guided decision interview with both statutory clocks running from the incident — and a reasoned record when something is not reportable, which is the record everyone wishes they had later. Print a submission pack to sit alongside your F2508.
Reporting anyone can use
A QR poster on the wall. Anyone on site can report an incident or near miss from their phone in under two minutes — no account, no app, works for agency workers, and anonymous if they choose.
Risk assessments with a spine
The five-step method with the hierarchy of control enforced — PPE as the whole answer needs a recorded justification. Controls not yet in place become tracked actions with named owners automatically.
The registers, together
COSHH, asbestos, fire safety, work equipment and LOLER examinations, permits to work, training and competence, contractors, lone working, driving for work — feeding one worklist instead of fourteen spreadsheets.
Defensible by design
An append-only audit trail with a tamper-evident hash chain you can verify with one click — and a one-click export of every record, any time, no questions asked. If we ever stop deserving your trust, you leave with everything.
Starter packs for the way your sector actually works
Onboarding provisions your workspace from a sector pack — the draft assessments and legal register scope a business like yours would be expected to hold, written against UK legislation and HSE guidance.
Why is it free?
Because a small joinery firm and a care home deserve the same quality of safety management as a plc — and because we believe nothing required to discharge a legal duty should sit behind a paywall. The core platform is free and stays free. If we charge for anything later, it will be optional extras — never your records, never your exports, never a statutory tool.
FreeHS is young and says so plainly. Read where security and assurance stand and how content is produced — including what is not done yet. Your records live in a UK (London) database, encrypted in transit and at rest.
Start with a working system this afternoon
Sign in with your work email — a code, not a password.