The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning businesses about a scam in which a bogus health and safety organisation is seeking to charge hundreds of pounds to run ‘checks’ and register them with an ‘enforcing agency’.

Businesses should ignore emails and letters from a group calling itself the ‘Health and Safety Registration Enforcement Division’. It is not connected to the HSE and is not an official body. The HSE says it is liaising with trading standards offices and the police, who are investigating the companies.

source: Cook and Partners accountants