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.
A total of 1.7 million people suffered from a work-related illness in the past year (2023-24), figures from the Health...
The Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) marks its 50th anniversary today (31 July), prompting TUC calls to build on its success.
New guidance on safe working to prevent silicosis in kitchen worktop manufacture has been published by BOHS.
Labour leader Keir Starmer has been urged to pledge support for firefghters who have developed cancer or other health issues.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is encouraging manufacturers to have, or put in place, effective health surveillance to reduce...
Nearly two million workers in Great Britain reported suffering from work-related ill health during 2022-23, with work-related stress absence still...
A union has welcomed the Health and Safety Executive's decision to investigate a 'dangerous' firefighters' breathing apparatus policy.
There has been a 10% rise in work-related deaths in the past year, according to latest figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is poised to launch a health and safety inspections’ blitz next week, targeting how...
Due to HSE cutbacks there has been a 200-fold increase in ‘mandatory’ HSE investigations that have then failed to happen, a union has said.
Firefighters are regularly exposed to PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals in firefighting foam, a report from the Health and Safety Executive has argued.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a campaign to remind people working in construction to manage the risks...
A Welsh health board has been fined after it ignored pleas from its occupational health department to risk-assess employees for hand-arm vibration syndrome.
More than 100,000 workers went down with Covid-19 in the past year which they believed they contracted in the workplace,...
Workers unloading or moving freight from shipping containers at British ports can be exposed to hazardous substances, says HSE.
