The Health and Safety Executive is a body set up to protect the health, safety and welfare of employees and to safeguard others, principally the public, who may be exposed to risk from industry.
The HSE’s remit is to ensure that risks to people’s health and safety from work activities are properly controlled.
Sage research into Covid prevalence highlighted how important ‘choice’ over an individual’s work situation is for health outcomes, one of the government's top health experts has said.
From April, employers will be obliged to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to workers, as well as employees, who may...
The Health and Safety Executive has published updated guidance emphasising the importance of good ventilation.
The number of workplace fatalities in Great Britain increased last year, according to the HSE.
Small businesses that breach health and safety regulations could face fines worth 142% higher than the yearly cost of compliance measures.
Employers have “massively under-reported” the number of employees who have died after being exposed to Covid-19 at work, the TUC has claimed.
Three in 10 union representatives have had a regulator visit their workplace because of Covid-19 concerns.
A survey of 1,400...
An employee refused to return to the workplace because he believed his workplace posed a danger to his children. What are the ramifications of the case?
As UK workplaces look gradually to open back up as lockdown restrictions are lifted, the TUC has warned that many...
A think-tank has accused the government of downplaying the risk of Covid-19 transmission in the workplace – which could have...
Migrant workers are more than twice as likely to be killed or suffer injuries in the workplace because poor English...
A poll finds many have been ordered into work when they could have easily and safely worked from home.
Trade unions are calling on the government to update workplace safety rules, published in the first lockdown, to protect workers...
The government has failed to implement important EU health and safety protections for workers into UK law, a judicial review...
The UK should put in place ‘Sustainable Workplace Health Strategies’ for each of its nations, the British Occupational Hygiene Society...
