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Could your yard survive an HSE visit?

Twenty questions about how vehicles and people move around your site. It takes about three minutes and it is based on the failures HSE actually prosecutes.

24workers killed by a moving vehicle at work in 2025/26 — second only to falls from height
£250,000sentencing starting point for a serious offence by a business turning over under £2 million
£150k–£450kthe range that starting point sits inside, before costs

Why small firms get this wrong

Most owners assume a health and safety fine is a few thousand pounds. Fines are set from turnover bands, so being small is not protection — a micro business faces a quarter of a million pound starting point for a serious offence. Nearly every prosecution below follows the same pattern: a vehicle reversing, a person on foot in the same space, and no plan.

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