General Sole Trader Construction H&S Pack — UK 2026

If your trade doesn't have its own health and safety pack, this is the one. It covers the core documents any sole trader on a construction site is asked for before work starts, and it suits tilers, plasterers, window fitters, flooring installers, kitchen and bathroom fitters, fencers, glaziers, damp proofers, renderers and other trades.

What's inside

✓  Health and safety policy statement

✓  General construction risk assessment tables: working at height, manual handling, dust (including silica from cutting tiles, stone and concrete), noise, hand-arm vibration, electrical contact, slips and trips, cuts

✓  Further site hazards: asbestos, falling objects, confined spaces, fire, lone working, welfare

✓  Method statement (RAMS) template

✓  Blank COSHH assessment templates you complete from the Safety Data Sheets for your own products

✓  PPE record and checklist

✓  Accident and incident record with RIDDOR reporting guidance

✓  10 toolbox talk topics plus a signed record sheet

✓  Site induction checklist

✓  CDM 2015 guide: your duties as a contractor and what a principal contractor can ask you for

✓  Asbestos awareness checklist: where asbestos may be found and what to do if you suspect it

✓  Insurance and qualifications checklist

A catch-all that you tailor to your trade

The risk tables cover the hazards common to most trades. The COSHH templates are left blank on purpose so you can enter the exact products you use. Add trade-specific hazards for your own work where the tables don't cover them. If you work in roofing, plumbing, electrical work, painting, landscaping or carpentry, the trade-specific packs in this range go further.

How to use it

Open the Word file, replace every [bracketed] field with your own details and job information, delete the guidance boxes, then print it or save it as a PDF to send to the client or principal contractor.

Who it's for

Sole traders and small firms who need their own health and safety documents for commercial sites, domestic contracts, tender submissions or insurance. Based on CDM 2015, COSHH 2002 and the Work at Height Regulations 2005, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and CDM 2015.

Cost comparison

Health and safety consultants often charge several hundred pounds or more to produce risk assessments and method statements. This pack is £39 and you can reuse it on every job.

Editable Word files. Instant download. Updated 2026.

Please note: these are templates. They must be tailored to your actual work, site and equipment, and they do not replace a site-specific assessment or professional advice where your work calls for it. Written for England and Wales and based on the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, CDM 2015 and COSHH 2002 (plus the regulations named above).