Fee for Intervention (FFI) increased to £154 per hour

Please be aware that the HSE’s cost recovery rate for Fee for Intervention has increased from £129 per hour to £154 per hour. This means that businesses that are found to be in material breach of health and safety law will be charged at this new rate. 
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The fee will include the costs covering the time of the entire original visit. The total amount recovered will be based on the amount of time it takes HSE to identify the breach and help you put things right (including associated office work), multiplied by the hourly rate.

Your fee may include the inspector’s time:
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• At your business or workplace
• Preparing reports
• Getting specialist advice
• Talking to you after the visit
• Talking to your workers

​Who FFI applies to
It applies to dutyholders where HSE is the enforcing authority. This will include:

• employers
• self-employed who put others at risk
• public and limited companies
• general, limited and limited liability partnerships
• Crown and public bodies

What is a material breach?A material breach is something which an inspector considers serious enough that they need to formally write to the business requiring action to be taken to deal with the material breach. If the inspector gives you a notification of contravention (NoC) after their visit, you’ll have to pay a fee. The NoC must include:

• the law that the inspector considers has been broken
• the reason(s) for their opinion
• notification that a fee is payable to HSE

Where an inspector simply gives you advice, either verbal or written, you won’t have to pay anything for this advice.