The HBF Health and Safety Committee (HSC) is a membership group committed to driving further improvement in the health and safety performance of the home building sector.
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Join the committee Meetings and structure RIDDOR data collection Health and safety resourcesJoin the HBF Health and Safety Committee
Sign the HBF Health and Safety Charter
Contribute to RIDDOR reporting
Help inform industry guidance
To join the committee, your organisation must be a home builder with full HBF membership.
Visit the Directory to check your organisation's membership status.
Contact the HBF Technical Team
Invites to the HBF Health and Safety Committee are extended upon request.
Contact Steph Calder at steph.calder@hbf.co.uk to begin your enquiry.
All HBF Health and Safety Committee member organisations must sign the HBF Health and Safety Charter.
The core aims of the charter are to drive a positive health and safety culture within the home building industry through agreeing and setting ‘standards’ that meet or exceed statutory requirements.
All HBF Health and Safety Committee member representatives are invited to HBF’s quarterly Health and Safety meetings.
The meetings are intended to create a collaborative space for discussing industry-wide Health and Safety issues and best practices. Attending the meetings demonstrates a member organisation’s commitment to the Health and Safety Charter.
As part of the committee’s commitment to driving Health and Safety standards, organisation must submit quarterly RIDDOR and accident data to HBF.
HBF anonymises the reported data and issues a quarterly and annual report to inform the committee’s working groups.
Committee meetings and structure
The HBF Health and Safety Committee meet every quarter to discuss industry guidance documentation in development, the progress of working groups, and any relevant industry issues or best practice.
The committee has four standing working groups which address the objectives of the committee, as established by the Health and Safety Steering Group and wider committee. Other sub groups are formed to deal with arising issues.
The committee maintains close links with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), with a representative sitting on the committee.
The Health and Safety Charter was first developed in 2004 and renewed in 2019 to drive further improvement in the performance of the sector.
Download the HBF Health and Safety Charter.
The latest version of the Charter has been updated April 2024.
Meet the team
RIDDOR data collection and reporting
Health and safety data is collected quarterly from all volunteer member organisations from 1 April to 31 March.
The collated data is analysed and used to target effective improvements in the health and safety performance of the house building sector of the construction industry.
RIDDOR data collected from members has allowed us to identify where accidents are happening on site and across which job roles.
The trends identified in this analysis allows us to set our rolling objectives on an annual basis, leading to reduced accident statistics in the sector.
Data collection for HBF Health and Safety reports takes place on the HBF Stats Online platform, produced with the support of SSUK.
If you have any questions about the new platform, contact Steph Calder.
Latest reports
Health and safety resources
The HBF Health and Safety Committee's working groups meet throughout the year to work on industry guidance documents and advise on HBF Health and Safety campaigns.
Guidance documents are created to support SME home builders and the wider home building industry in improving health and safety standards.
We have collated and created a number of health and safety resources for the home building industry.
Visit our resources page