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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HBF anonymises the reported data and issues a quarterly and annual report to inform the committee’s working groups.
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.
Download the HBF Health Committee Structure and Relationship document.
Download the HBF Health and Safety Committee Terms of Reference Document.
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.
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.
