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 |