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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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    Air pollution affecting health of 440,000 manufacturing workers

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Nov 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Nov 2020

    Hundreds of thousands of manufacturing workers with health conditions that can be exacerbated by poor air quality are being exposed...

    • Coronavirus
    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive

    HSE missing ‘thousands’ of opportunities to investigate work-related Covid-19

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Sep 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Sep 2020

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) may be missing ‘thousands’ of opportunities to investigate work-related Covid-19 cases because of gaps...

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    DWP failed to enforce social distancing at Leeds office

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Sep 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Sep 2020

    The Department for Work and Pensions has failed to enforce social distancing at an office in Leeds, a health and...

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    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive

    Lower earners more likely to become ill or injured at work, warns think-tank

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Aug 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Aug 2020

    Lower earners are twice as likely to become physically ill or injured at work as higher earners, new research has...

    • Coronavirus
    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive

    Don’t let Covid-19 blind you to other health and safety risks, waste firms warned

    by Ashleigh Webber 7 Jul 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 7 Jul 2020

    Waste management organisations have been warned against becoming complacent around other serious health and safety risks while taking measures to...

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    Talking toolkits: unpicking Covid-19 return-to-work advice for occupational health

    by Nic Paton 3 Jul 2020
    by Nic Paton 3 Jul 2020

    With the UK now gradually reopening for business, organisations across the workplace health spectrum have been developing toolkits and resources...

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    HSE issues warning over use of KN95 masks as PPE

    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Jul 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Jul 2020

    Employers should not purchase ‘KN95’ face masks as personal protective equipment because they are unlikely to protect wearers against contracting...

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    Denying toilet access ‘a serious public health matter’, warns union

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Jun 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Jun 2020

    Delivery drivers and fast food couriers are often having to urinate in bushes and have no way of cleaning their...

    • Coronavirus
    • OH service delivery
    • Health and safety

    Certification body issues warning over ‘fake’ PPE

    by Ashleigh Webber 19 May 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 19 May 2020

    Organisations bringing staff back into the workplace may have unwittingly purchased ineffective personal protective equipment (PPE) that may not offer...

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    Health and safety regulator prepares for rush of calls as workplaces reopen

    by Adam McCulloch 14 May 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 14 May 2020

    HSE has contacted nearly 30 employers so far with orders to improve coronavirus safety measures.

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    • Latest News

    Covid-19 Secure workplaces: the detail for returning to work

    by Personnel Today 12 May 2020
    by Personnel Today 12 May 2020

    As the government lays out guidelines for various workplaces in the UK economy, Personnel Today examines some of the detail...

    • Ergonomics
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    • Coronavirus

    Covid-19 Secure guidance: Employers should publish risk assessments

    by Rob Moss 12 May 2020
    by Rob Moss 12 May 2020

    ‘Practical guidelines’ have been published to help employers make workplaces as safe as possible, including the expectation that all employers...

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    • Coronavirus
    • Economics, government & business

    Gig workers’ lives at risk by ‘failure to adopt EU health and safety law‘

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 May 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 May 2020

    A union that represents gig economy workers is taking legal action against the government for its alleged failure to ensure...

    • Coronavirus
    • Health and safety
    • Health & Safety Executive

    Academic calls for independent inquiry into coronavirus safety failings

    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Apr 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Apr 2020

    A professor of occupational and environmental medicine has called for an independent body, such as the Royal Commission, to investigate...

    • Business continuity
    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News

    Guidance planned to set out safe return to work

    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Apr 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Apr 2020

    The government is set to publish guidance on how workplaces could safely re-open at some point after the coronavirus lockdown...

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