QHSE Templates Library
Forty-eight free QHSE templates, every one a direct download as a PDF and an Excel file, with no email address needed. Each has fields, guidance notes and a worked example you can adapt to your operation, and none has been reviewed by OSHA or ISO. They include construction, ESG, oil and gas process safety and food safety records.
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Assess and plan
Registers, records and plans you set up before work starts: risks (lone working and psychosocial risks included), legal requirements, aspects, exposure, waste, quality, change, an emergency action plan, a HACCP plan, a standard's transition and the measures you will report.
Job Safety Analysis (JSA / JHA) Template
One job broken into steps with the hazards, a risk rating before and after controls, the hierarchy of controls, a 5×5 scale and pre-start checks, signed by workers, supervisor and reviewer.

Management of Change (MOC) Template
Change request with scope, a time limit for temporary changes, risk evaluation before and after, approvals, training, pre-startup review, 30, 90 and 180-day verification and closure.

5×5 Risk Assessment Matrix Template
A 5×5 likelihood and severity matrix with example scales and bands, a rating table with existing controls and residual risk, a decision record and sign-off. You replace the scale with your own.

SDS Summary & Chemical Register Template
A summary of one safety data sheet in your own words, exposure limits with their source, storage incompatibilities, who is exposed, review triggers, and a 20-line chemical register.

Environmental Aspects and Impacts Register Template
Landscape register of activities, aspects, impacts and normal, abnormal and emergency conditions, with example scoring scales, controls and legal requirements.

Quality Plan Template
A plan for one project, product or process: objectives, scope, responsibilities, process controls, inspection and test points, records, suppliers, change control and review.

Risk Register Template
A landscape register of risk scenarios with existing controls, a rating before and after further action, owner, due date, review date and status. You write your own scale.

Legal Register Template
A landscape register of the requirements that apply to you, where each comes from, who owns it, how you comply, the evidence, when it was last checked and its status, with a change log.

KPI Definition Sheet Template
One sheet per metric: the decision it serves, numerator, denominator, period and cutoff, source, missing data, rate base, revisions, target and a worked example, with a change log and a pre-dashboard check.

Workplace Exposure Assessment Record Template
One record of one exposure assessment: who is exposed and how, controls in order of priority, the limit you chose with its source, the measurement or estimate, the comparison, the decision and review. No individual health data.

Double Materiality Assessment Matrix Template
A worksheet for deciding which sustainability matters are material from the impact view, the financial view or both: your own scales and thresholds, the ten ESRS topics with their sub-topics, evidence, a stakeholder log and sign-off.

Scope 3 Supplier Data Request Template
A request sent to one supplier for the emissions attributable to what you buy: Scope 1 and 2 data, how they were allocated, method and factor sources, data quality, assurance, targets, and a log for the buyer.

GHG Inventory Workbook and Data Sheet
A printable data sheet and a working Excel workbook for a greenhouse gas inventory: Scope 1, both Scope 2 methods and all 15 Scope 3 categories, with formulas and an empty factor table you fill with your own sourced factors.

Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) Worksheet Template
A process hazard analysis worksheet for one study: team, design intent, guideword and parameter prompts to adapt, deviations with causes, consequences, safeguards and recommendations, tracking and sign-off.

Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) Worksheet Template
A LOPA worksheet for one scenario: initiating event, enabling conditions, independent protection layers with your own values and sources, the calculation step by step, the tolerable frequency and the gap.

Waste Register and Transfer Record Template
One line per load that leaves the site: description, EWC code, hazardous or not, quantity, carrier and destination with their numbers, the R or D code and the note reference, plus carrier checks and the retention periods the texts state.

ISO 9001:2026 Transition Gap Checklist Template
One row per clause that Global ACI, UKAS or ISO says changed, with what the source says in our words, then your current state, gap, action, owner, due date and evidence. Includes the Global ACI and UKAS transition dates and questions for your certification body; no ISO text reproduced.

Emergency Action Plan Template
One plan per site: emergencies covered, alarm and reporting, routes and assembly points for each area, wardens and the head count, shutdown, rescue duties, contacts, review and drills.

Lone Working Risk Assessment Template
One task or role done alone: where and when, who, the hazards with nobody nearby, controls, a check-in plan with the interval left to your procedure, six steps and a log for missed check-ins, training and review.

Psychosocial Risk Assessment Template
One work group assessed against the six HSE Management Standards areas and the hazards Victoria's Code names: group evidence, who might be harmed, controls that change the work first, consultation and review. No names or health data.

HACCP Plan Worksheet Template
One product or product group, from the team and a flow diagram checked on site to hazard analysis, CCPs, monitoring, corrective actions, verification and review. Critical limits are left for your own validated values.

People, sites and permits
Records of who is trained, who is on site, what was briefed and what is authorised, including drills, temporary bypasses and stops of work.
Toolbox Talk Template (Pack of 12)
Twelve talk outlines with key points to adapt, discussion prompts and sign-on sheets, plus a guide to giving a talk, a topic log and a talk record sheet.

Permit to Work Template
A general permit to work: job and validity, hazards and precautions, isolations by reference, fire precautions, test record, rescue plan, handover, suspension and cancellation. Not a hot work or confined space permit.

Safety Moment Template
A one-page card for the topic, the trigger, one message, one question and one commitment, plus a log that shows which moments led to an action.

Contractor Compliance Record Template
One record per contractor company: scope, documents requested and received with expiry dates, induction, permits, monitoring visits, incidents and sign-off.

Training Matrix Template
A landscape grid of people against required training, with completion and expiry dates, status codes, role requirements, refresher actions and a leavers and role-change check.

Contractor Induction Record Template
One record of one site induction: topics covered, documents sighted, attendees, an understanding check, questions raised, follow-up and sign-off.

Emergency Drill Record Template
A drill record with scenario, who took part, a timeline, ten observations, findings and actions with owners and dates, lessons shared and sign-off.

Safety Observation Record Template
A short record of one observation conversation: what was done well, what could be safer, what got in the way, an agreed action and a ten-line tally. No names needed and no target for counts.

Safety Device Bypass and Impairment Record Template
One record of one temporary bypass of a safety-critical device: why, the risk assessment, compensating measures, who authorised, handover, restoration test, any event and what was learned. Not a permit to work.

Task Method Statement Template (Daily SWMS)
A method statement for one task on one day: steps with hazards and controls, plant and permits, competence, emergency and rescue arrangements, a stop-work rule and a briefing sign-on.

Hot Work and Energy Isolation Permit Template
A combined hot work and energy isolation permit: isolations, blinds register, gas test record with your own limits, fire watch, suspension and re-validation, hand-back and ordered removal.

Stop Work Authority Policy and Event Record Template
A one-page policy to sign and post (anyone may stop, no reprisal even when nothing was wrong, a named person restarts on stated evidence) and a record of one stop from the call to the feedback, with an Excel stop log. It sets no time limits.

Inspect and audit
Checklists and records for walking the workplace, auditing a process or a management system and scoring a supplier.
General Safety Audit Checklist
120 audit points in 11 sections with four status marks, evidence seen, finding, owner and target date, plus section counts, an immediate-danger box and sign-off.

Supplier Quality Scorecard Template
Eight delivery, quality, responsiveness and documentation measures with their calculations, weights that total 100 and example action bands.

5S Audit Checklist Template
Twenty-five checks across sort, set in order, shine, standardise and sustain, each scored 0 to 5, with a red-tag log, an action list and sign-off.

Workplace Inspection Checklist Template
A routine walk-through of 28 checks across access, fire, electrical, machinery, handling, chemicals, PPE and welfare, with a rating for each No and a separate action list.

Internal Audit Plan and Report Template
One record of one internal audit: scope and criteria, how the sample was chosen, what was examined, findings with their evidence, follow-up actions verified by someone other than the owner, and a conclusion.

Scaffold Inspection Record Template
An inspection record for one scaffold: 34 checks in ten groups, a use decision, defects with owner and due date, the inspector's competence and the next inspection. It sets no inspection interval.

Plant Pre-Start Checklist Template
A pre-start check of one item of plant: operator competence confirmation, 26 checks in six groups, a defect decision (operate, restrict, do not operate), a defect log and handover.

ESRS Disclosure Checklist Template
A tracking sheet for ESRS 2, E1, S1 and G1 disclosure requirements, listed in the numbering of both the 2023 text and the 2026 amendment, with status, owner, evidence reference and gaps.

Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR) Template
A pre-startup safety review record: 40 checks in eight groups with evidence, open items that block or do not block start-up, the start-up decision and sign-off.

ISO 45001 Internal Audit Checklist Template
Eighty questions on clauses 4 to 10 in our own words, each with its clause, the evidence to look for and five results, then counts by clause, a findings list and sign-off. Written against ISO 45001:2018 with Amendment 1:2024; no ISO text reproduced.

Respond and improve
What to record after an incident, a spill, a nonconformance or a medical device complaint, how its root causes are analysed, and when management reviews the system.
Incident Report Template
A no-blame record of one incident: facts in order, people and witnesses, severity, immediate actions, who was told, contributing factors, a first root-cause analysis and corrective actions.

Nonconformance Report (NCR) Template
Nine-section NCR with containment, a five-step why-chain, corrective actions with owners and dates, and an effectiveness check before closure.

Spill or Release Incident Report Template
Release report covering substance, quantity, receptors and drainage, timed response, notifications, cause, clean-up and waste, and follow-up actions.

Management Review Record Template
One record of one management review meeting: inputs reviewed and where each came from, discussion, decisions with reasons, actions with owners, resources decided and sign-off by top management.

Medical Device Complaint and CAPA Record Template
One device complaint from intake to closure: UDI and lot, the decision to investigate or why not, US and EU reportability with only the periods the texts state, the CAPA link, the reply and sign-off.

Root Cause Analysis Worksheet Template
The analysis step after an incident report or NCR: evidence log, timeline, a why-chain tested against evidence, fishbone, causal factors and root causes, and actions closed on an effectiveness check.

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