Don't believe everything that third parties say: ask to see the actual evidence from HSE and wait for the excuses. There are loads of registered business with health and safety in their title. PH2

It's little to do with the HSE, it's governed by assorted legislation including The Company and Business Names (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2009 (SI2009/1085) and sections 53-55 and 1197-8 of the Companies Act 2006. Potentially you get hit by both - falling foul of both the 'business pre-eminence' restricions and teh ones against implying a connection with government or a relevant body. See http://www.companieshous...k/about/gbhtml/gp1.shtml and particularly chapters 6 and 7 and Annexes A and B. If you want 'health and safety' in the title, as far as I can see there's no absolute prohibition, but you do need the permission of HSE, and the Secretary of State, and need to file a load of extra paperwork. A company doing the registration for you isn't going to do all that for 40 quid. You could do it yourself, or pay a lawyer on an hourly rate. For what it's worth, when I formed my company I didn't have any restricted words in the name, but I paid a lawyer (and an accountant) anyway, in order to avoid being stuck with the default terms of incorporation embedded in statute.

You learn something new everyday from this forum....... Also, when mythbusters has been discussed recently there has been a lot of comment about the HSE thinking they 'own' the phrase 'health and safety' ..................Well it seems they do!!!! :)