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Health and safety

The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 requires employers to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of its employees.

This duty extends to health and safety matters such as the maintenance of plant; systems of work; the arrangements for the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances; information and training; and access routes.


    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
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    Employers ‘worryingly’ ignorant about stress risk assessments

    by Nic Paton 20 May 2025
    by Nic Paton 20 May 2025

    Employer awareness, understanding and compliance with Health and Safety Executive (HSE) stress risk assessment requirements remains “worryingly” low, a poll...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Diabetes

    Warning of diabetes risk for workplace drivers

    by Nic Paton 11 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 11 Apr 2025

    Companies employing drivers are being warned they need to proactively monitor and risk manage for type 2 diabetes, as those...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer
    • Disability

    Calls growing for UK national asbestos register

    by Nic Paton 4 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 4 Apr 2025

    Union body the TUC has backed calls to create a national database to map the presence of asbestos in buildings....

    • Sexual harassment
    • Hospitality
    • Latest News

    Sexual harassment: Employees have the right to protection at work

    by Mike Clancy 18 Mar 2025
    by Mike Clancy 18 Mar 2025

    Following allegations of drink-spiking in Parliament, Mike Clancy considers how employers should protect staff from sexual harassment.

    • NHS
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    • Latest News

    One in seven NHS staff physically attacked last year

    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025

    As many as one in seven NHS staff (14.38%) experienced physical violence from patients, their relatives or other members of...

    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive

    HSE new guidance to protect against hospital nitrous oxide exposure

    by Nic Paton 10 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 10 Feb 2025

    Guidance to protect midwives from excessive nitrous oxide exposure has been published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
    The...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Health surveillance

    Two-step testing enabling more train drivers to work with colour blindness

    by Nic Paton 24 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Jan 2025

    An initiative between the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) and train drivers’ union ASLEF is enabling more people with...

    • Fit for Work
    • Disability
    • Respiratory

    HSE updates guidance on silicosis risk from installing stone worktops

    by Nic Paton 10 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 10 Jan 2025

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued guidance for workers installing stone worktops on how to mitigate risk around...

    • Fit for Work
    • Counselling
    • Mental health conditions

    Workplaces urged to revisit and refresh first aid approaches in 2025

    by Nic Paton 6 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 6 Jan 2025

    Workplaces are being urged to revisit and refresh their first aid practices and approaches as UK plc reopens for business...

    • Alcohol and drug misuse
    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety

    Warning of ‘catastrophic’ rise in alcohol deaths in England

    by Nic Paton 20 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 20 Dec 2024

    There has been “a catastrophic” 42% rise in deaths from alcohol in England in the past four years, a charity...

    • Construction
    • Health and safety
    • Respiratory

    Building health: Enhancing worker safety on winter construction sites

    by Benjamin Rothwell 16 Dec 2024
    by Benjamin Rothwell 16 Dec 2024

    As we look towards the new year and the arrival of winter proper, Benjamin Rothwell outlines some of the key...

    • Fit for Work
    • Health surveillance
    • Health and safety

    Changing social habits mean OH must rethink occupational noise risk

    by Nic Paton 3 Dec 2024
    by Nic Paton 3 Dec 2024

    OH professionals need to recognise that changing social habits – especially people listening to content through headphones at work or...

    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive

    1.7 million suffered work-related illness last year – HSE

    by Nic Paton 25 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 25 Nov 2024

    A total of 1.7 million people suffered from a work-related illness in the past year (2023-24), figures from the Health...

    • Conditions
    • Health and safety
    • Latest News

    Call for more toilet access as workers turn to bags and buckets

    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 19 Nov 2024
    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 19 Nov 2024

    Unions demand greater access to toilets as a new study shows workers are using bags, bottles, buckets and bushes due to a lack of facilities.

    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety
    • Musculoskeletal disorders

    Accidental deaths in UK at all-time high, warns RoSPA

    by Nic Paton 15 Nov 2024
    by Nic Paton 15 Nov 2024

    Accidental deaths in the UK have reached an all-time high and are now the second biggest killer of people aged...

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