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.
Hundreds of thousands of manufacturing workers with health conditions that can be exacerbated by poor air quality are being exposed...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) may be missing ‘thousands’ of opportunities to investigate work-related Covid-19 cases because of gaps...
The Department for Work and Pensions has failed to enforce social distancing at an office in Leeds, a health and...
Lower earners are twice as likely to become physically ill or injured at work as higher earners, new research has...
Waste management organisations have been warned against becoming complacent around other serious health and safety risks while taking measures to...
Employers should not purchase ‘KN95’ face masks as personal protective equipment because they are unlikely to protect wearers against contracting...
Delivery drivers and fast food couriers are often having to urinate in bushes and have no way of cleaning their...
Organisations bringing staff back into the workplace may have unwittingly purchased ineffective personal protective equipment (PPE) that may not offer...
HSE has contacted nearly 30 employers so far with orders to improve coronavirus safety measures.
As the government lays out guidelines for various workplaces in the UK economy, Personnel Today examines some of the detail...
‘Practical guidelines’ have been published to help employers make workplaces as safe as possible, including the expectation that all employers...
A union that represents gig economy workers is taking legal action against the government for its alleged failure to ensure...
A professor of occupational and environmental medicine has called for an independent body, such as the Royal Commission, to investigate...
The government is set to publish guidance on how workplaces could safely re-open at some point after the coronavirus lockdown...
