Editorial Policy
Safe-Lee publishes guidance on statutory inspection that duty holders use to make compliance decisions. This page states how that guidance is researched, who is accountable for it, and how it is kept current, so you can judge how much weight to give it.
We cite the law, not each other
Every regulatory claim on this site links to its origin: the statutory instrument on legislation.gov.uk, or the Health and Safety Executive's own guidance and Approved Codes of Practice. We do not cite other inspection companies' blogs, and we do not cite aggregator sites that summarise the law at second hand. Where an Approved Code of Practice applies we say so, because an ACOP carries a legal status that ordinary guidance does not.
One named person is accountable for what we publish
Guidance on this site is written and checked by Lee Charnock EngTech MSOE MBES, Director & Engineer Surveyor, who is the competent person carrying out the examinations we describe. Articles carry a byline linking to his profile. If something here is wrong, there is a named human to hold to it rather than a company byline.
Dates mean something
Published and updated dates reflect when the content actually changed. We do not refresh a date to look current, and a redeploy is not an update. If a page says it was reviewed in a given month, the words on it changed that month.
We would rather say we do not know
We do not publish a figure we cannot source, an estimate dressed up as a statistic, or a case study we cannot evidence. Where a question genuinely depends on your equipment and site, we say that and explain what it depends on, rather than inventing a number that would be wrong for most readers. That is also why we publish what drives our pricing instead of a headline rate.
What this guidance is not
Everything here is general guidance about what the regulations require. It is not a substitute for a thorough examination, and it is not advice about your specific equipment, which depends on the equipment itself, how it is used and the environment it is used in. Where your situation turns on a detail, ask us or ask the HSE rather than relying on a web page.
Telling us something is wrong
If you think something on this site is inaccurate or out of date, tell us and we will check it against the source and correct it. Email admin@safeleeinspectionconsultancy.com or call 0161 706 2022.
About Lee Charnock, the competent person behind this guidance