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 think-tank has accused the government of downplaying the risk of Covid-19 transmission in the workplace – which could have...
Migrant workers are more than twice as likely to be killed or suffer injuries in the workplace because poor English...
A poll finds many have been ordered into work when they could have easily and safely worked from home.
Trade unions are calling on the government to update workplace safety rules, published in the first lockdown, to protect workers...
The government has failed to implement important EU health and safety protections for workers into UK law, a judicial review...
The UK should put in place ‘Sustainable Workplace Health Strategies’ for each of its nations, the British Occupational Hygiene Society...
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...
With the UK now gradually reopening for business, organisations across the workplace health spectrum have been developing toolkits and resources...
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...
