trades considered

Below you will find a list of many trades, professions and areas of risk where there is a known or perceived negligence exposure. Despite its length, it is not exhaustive. These days there are so many more specialist consultants, a number of who used to be employees of companies but whose previous role is now quite often outsourced, creating a potential risk in the minds of firms that contract with them.

Accountants
Acoustic Engineers
Actuaries
Adjusters
Adoption Agencies
Advertising Agents
Aerial Surveyors
Agricultural Consultants
Agronomists
Analytical Research & Laboratories
Antique Dealers & Restorers
Aquatic Consultants
Arbitrators
Arboriculturalist 
Archaeologists
Architects
Archivists
Art Appraisers, Valuers & Restorers
Art Dealers
Artists’ Agents
Auctioneers
Audio Recording & Editing
Authors’ Agents
Bacteriologists
Bailiffs
Bell Ringers
Biologists
Bookkeeping & Payroll Services
Broadcasting Services
Building Services Engineers
Building Surveyors
Business Consultants
Business Transfer Agents
Careers Advisory Consultants
Cartographers
Catering Consultants
CCTV Monitors
Chambers of Commerce
Charities
Chartered Secretaries
Chartered Surveyors
Chemists – Analytical & Consulting
Citizens Advice Bureaux
Civil Engineers
Clerks of Work
Coating Specialists
Collection Agents
Colleges
Communication & Network Consultants
Company Registrars
Company Search Agents
Component Testing
Computer Bureaux
Computer Consultants
Computer Supervision
Conservators
Consulting Motor Engineers
Copywriters
Corporate Entertainment Agents
Corporate Identity Consultants
Couriers/Dispatch Services
Credit Control Consultants
Credit Reference Agents
Customs, Import & Export Agents
Damp Proofing and Dry Rot Specialists
Data Information Services
Data Processors
Data Storage 
Debt Collectors, Counsellors & Consultants
Demolition Consultants
Design and other Professional work of Contractors
Design and other Professional work of Manufacturers
Design Studio
Desktop Publishers
Developers
Digital Imaging
Direct Marketing Consultants
Disaster Recovery Consultants
Documents Storage & Destruction
Drone Surveys
Ecologists
Economic Forecasting
Editors & Processors of Film & Video,
Education Consultants
Educational Services & Training
Electrical Appliance Testers
Emigration Consultants
Employee Relations Consultants
Employment Agents
Energy Consultants
Engineers 
Enquiry Agents
Environmental Consultants
Environmental Health Officers
Estate Agents & Lettings Agents
Exhibition, Conference & Event Organisers
Expert Witness
Export & Customs Agents/Consultants
Facsimile & Photocopy Services  
Factoring & Invoice Discounting
Farm Managers
Fire Control Consultants
Fire Engineers
Food Industry Consultants
Forensic & Accident Investigators
Forestry Consultants
Freight Container Surveyors/Inspectors
Freight Forwarders
Fuel Consultants
Furnishings Consultants
Genealogists
Geologists
Golf Course Designers
Graphic Designers
Graphologists
Headhunters
Health & Safety Consultants
Health Authorities
Heating Consultants
Heating, Ventilating & Air Conditioning Engineers
Helplines
Horticulturalists
Housing Associations
Human Resources Consultants
Hydraulic Engineers
Illustrators
Immigration Consultants
Industrial Safety Consultants
Information Technology Consultants
Inspection Services (Quality)
Insurance Adjusters & Surveyors
Interior Designers
Internet Hosting
Investment Agents (Property)
Jewellery Appraisers
Journalists
Laboratories
Labour Relations Consultants
Land Surveyors
Landscape Architects
Lease Brokers
Legal Consultants
Legal Costs Draftsmen
Legionaire’s Disease Consultants
Leisure Industry Consultants
Letting Agents
Lighting Designers
Literary Agents
Livestock Agents & Auctioneers
Local Authorities
Loss Adjusters
Mail & Courier Service
Management Consultants
Market Gardeners
Market Research 
Marketing Consultants
Material Testing Laboratories
Mechanical Engineers
Media Consultants
Mediators
Metallurgical Inspection & Testing
Micro-Filming
Model Agencies
Network Designers
Noise Pollution Control Services
Non-Destructive Testing
Oenologists
Outsourcing Agency
Patent Agents
Pathology Laboratories
Personnel Consultants
Photographic Services
Planning Supervisor
Pressure Vessel Maintenance Consultants
Probate Agents
Product Designers
Project & Contract Management
Project Co-ordination
Proof-readers
Property Investment Consultants
Property Management
Public Relations Consultants
Publishers
Quality Assurance Consultants
Quality Control Consultants
Quantity Surveyors
Quarry Engineers
Recording Studios
Recreation Consultants
Recruitment Consultants
Refrigeration Engineers
Registration Agents
Relocation Consultants
Renewable Energy Engineers
Research Agents
Safety Consultants
Sales Promotion Consultants
Search Agents
Secretarial Agencies
Security Consultants
Seedsmen
Setting-out Engineers
Sheriff’s Officers
Shipping Agents & Managers
Soil Engineers
Specialist Cleaning
Status Research & Reference Agents
Stocktakers
Structural Engineers
Surveyors
Tax Consultants
Telephone Answering Service
Testing Laboratories
Thermal & Insulation Consultants
Tourist Associations
Tourist Information Consultants
Town Planners
Trade Bodies
Trade Mark Agents
Trade Valuers
Traffic Consultants
Training Consultants
Translators
Transport Consultants
Travel Agents
Treatment Consultants
Tree Surgeons
Trustees – Charity & Pension
Underwater Inspection & Surveys
University Consultancy & Research
Urban & Land Economic Consultants
Utilities Supply Consultants
Valuers of Stock, Machinery and Businesses
VAT Consultants
Vibration Consultants
Video Recording & Editing
Water & Land Drainage Specialists
Water Supply Consultants
Website Designers
Wedding Planners
Wildlife Consultants
Willwriters
Wind Power Consultants
Written Word/Music
Yacht Brokers
Zoologists