Rules based people please help me!

[SmintyHinty]

I find it really hard to cope with no adherence to rules. Please can anyone advise?
Despite being quite liberal in much of my outlook I've realised over the last couple of years that I'm a rules based person. Im fairly anxious and adhered to all the lock down rules, do what I'm asked to do at work and follow safety guidelines.
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to deal with people who are unable to adhere to the rules. Because of where I work we have fairly good safety practices (fire, covid, safeguarding, medical etc). However in our small team of 9 there are four / five people who just do not do the things we've been asked to do in our training / Risk Assessment. These are not difficult things or anything which hugely impinges on their own lives. However they're things which make my life more difficult, affect my ability to do my job and, just really knock my confidence because I'm always thinking that I can't rely on them to do the right thing (or even try to do it).
Can any other rulesy people help me deal with this? Or if you're a breaker can you tell me how I could get them to adhere?
I'm struggling and on the point of resignation because I'm so worried about the rules being broken and there being serious consequences (plus my workload has basically doubled as I'm having to effectively cover).

Is there "HR" in a company of 9 people?
~50% of OP's team are happy to not follow the rules strictly.
OP "reporting to HR" won't be popular with those ~50%.
It's not like OP's choices are risk free.

[quote SmintyHinty]@NeverEnoughJs "For a long time I thought there was something wrong with me, that maybe my reasoning skills were off and there were appropriate times for policy to be ignored, or that the policy I'd written was flawed, but this sadly turned out not to be the case in the long run."
This is EXACTLY it.
The policy and procedures have been signed off at a higher level than me and explicitly mention that things that are currently happen should not happen. So I know that these things are wrong. But they're happening and I'm finding it really hard to deal with that.[/quote]
I think I would struggle to work with someone so rigid in their thinking.
Why does it matter if 2 people sit together chatting in a small office? They work together all day and could easily go and sit together for lunch in a cafe, go out drinking together or sit in each other’s houses.

@lljkk we're part of a MUCH bigger company.

will your colleagues be cheesed off at corporate HQ cracking down on them?

The untested chargers need to be stored now. Warn (remind) people that they are not allowed, and you'll be turning them off overnight. If they still don't comply, unplug them and do not switch them back on in the morning. If people complain, bright smile and Well I did warn you - it's my job!
Involve senior management of you get pushback from that.
Once you get that one sorted, think about what is the next most urgent thing to tackle. But always only one thing at a time. You can do this without it getting nasty, unless somebody chooses to make it nasty. You have to decide whether the job is worth it. But electrical safety, nobody should be messing about with that.

GAH! Sorted, not stored