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.
Like it or not, organisations have a duty to provide health and safety training. But it could involve much more than you...
Health and Safety Display Screen Equipment (DSE) eyecare regulations apply where an employee habitually uses VDUs for periods of more than one hour.
Many employers are risking migrant workers’ wellbeing by not providing adequate health and safety training warned the Institute of Occupational...
A Coventry recycling firm has been slapped with a £200,000 fine after a worker was killed when a reversing skip...
An influential committee of MPs is to investigate the work of the Health and Safety Commission and Health and Safety Executive...
A three-year investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into health and safety on offshore oil and gas installations has concluded...
Two construction firms have been fined £110,000 and ordered to pay £165,000 in costs after their poor working practices left...
Chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling has launched a major review of business health and safety laws.The review, announced in...
Top level responsibility for health and safety was in the spotlight last week as two reports drew differing conclusions about...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned employers to ensure they manage asbestos properly in their buildings after a...
Several failings to adhere to working practices and containment measures at the Pirbright laboratory that leaked foot and mouth were...
Truck driver loses unfair dismissal claimA truck driver based in Stafford has lost out on a claim for unfair dismissal,...
Deaths at work trigger leadership concerns
The increase in work-related deaths in the past year has highlighted the need for...
Proposals to limit on-the-spot safety inspections could result in more workplace deaths and injuries, the Institution of Occupational Safety and...
A European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision on a key element of UK health and safety law has been hailed as...
