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 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.
Construction sites could be inspected by the HSE as part of a campaign to raise awareness of health and safety issues.
Court orders Dyson to pay £1.2 million fine for breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act following accident.
Since April 2022 employers have had to ensure there is no difference in the way personal protective equipment is provided to employees and limb (b) workers.
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...
