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Health & Safety Executive

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.


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    Covid prevalence research highlights ‘choice’ in health outcomes

    by Ashleigh Webber 29 Mar 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 29 Mar 2022

    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.

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    • Health and safety
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    Employers’ PPE responsibilities extended to ‘workers’ from April

    by Personnel Today 11 Jan 2022
    by Personnel Today 11 Jan 2022

    From April, employers will be obliged to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to workers, as well as employees, who may...

    • Coronavirus
    • Health and safety
    • Return to work and rehabilitation

    HSE emphasises importance of Covid ventilation

    by Nic Paton 15 Sep 2021
    by Nic Paton 15 Sep 2021

    The Health and Safety Executive has published updated guidance emphasising the importance of good ventilation.

    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive
    • OHW+

    Fatal injuries at work increased during pandemic

    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Jul 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Jul 2021

    The number of workplace fatalities in Great Britain increased last year, according to the HSE.

    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive
    • Occupational Health

    Health and safety fines 142% higher than cost of compliance

    by Ashleigh Webber 28 May 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 28 May 2021

    Small businesses that breach health and safety regulations could face fines worth 142% higher than the yearly cost of compliance measures.

    • Coronavirus
    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive

    Employers could be under-reporting Covid deaths

    by Ashleigh Webber 25 May 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 25 May 2021

    Employers have “massively under-reported” the number of employees who have died after being exposed to Covid-19 at work, the TUC has claimed.

    • Coronavirus
    • Health and safety
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    Three in 10 union reps report Covid-19 safety inspections

    by Ashleigh Webber 27 Apr 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 27 Apr 2021

    Three in 10 union representatives have had a regulator visit their workplace because of Covid-19 concerns.
    A survey of 1,400...

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • Health and safety

    Covid-19: Parent fairly dismissed after refusing return to work

    by Jo Moseley 14 Apr 2021
    by Jo Moseley 14 Apr 2021

    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?

    • Vaccinations
    • Coronavirus
    • Health surveillance

    Employers failing to keep workplaces safe as restrictions lift, warns TUC

    by Nic Paton 6 Apr 2021
    by Nic Paton 6 Apr 2021

    As UK workplaces look gradually to open back up as lockdown restrictions are lifted, the TUC has warned that many...

    • Coronavirus
    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive

    HSE enforcement of Covid-secure guidelines too ‘light touch’

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Mar 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Mar 2021

    A think-tank has accused the government of downplaying the risk of Covid-19 transmission in the workplace – which could have...

    • Coronavirus
    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive

    App aims to boost health and safety knowlege among migrant workers

    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Jan 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Jan 2021

    Migrant workers are more than twice as likely to be killed or suffer injuries in the workplace because poor English...

    • Testing
    • Zero hours
    • Gig economy

    An eighth forced into work amid Covid safety complaints

    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Jan 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Jan 2021

    A poll finds many have been ordered into work when they could have easily and safely worked from home.

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • Health & Safety Executive

    Covid-19 safety rules ‘outdated’ say unions

    by Rob Moss 5 Jan 2021
    by Rob Moss 5 Jan 2021

    Trade unions are calling on the government to update workplace safety rules, published in the first lockdown, to protect workers...

    • Testing
    • Gig economy
    • Coronavirus

    High Court: Government failed gig workers’ health and safety

    by Rob Moss 30 Nov 2020
    by Rob Moss 30 Nov 2020

    The government has failed to implement important EU health and safety protections for workers into UK law, a judicial review...

    • Fit for Work
    • Clinical governance
    • Health surveillance

    ‘Sustainable workplace health strategies’ needed to tackle long-term health risks

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Nov 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Nov 2020

    The UK should put in place ‘Sustainable Workplace Health Strategies’ for each of its nations, the British Occupational Hygiene Society...

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