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.
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...
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The health of train maintenance workers is being put at risk as railway operators continue to allow sewage from train...
Employers sometimes make the headlines over their policy on staff wearing a poppy in the workplace. We set out the...
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The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) is set to publish the criteria required for it to begin an investigation into...
