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What are the HSE’s plans?

May 17, 2019

The HSE recently launched their business plan for 2019/2020, this sets out what their key areas of work will be for the coming year.  Naturally the HSE has an overall objective to improve wor...

Fire alarm

Who will answer your fire alarm?

May 17, 2019

Individual fire authorities are responsible for creating appropriate strategies for their own area.  With limited resources and many calls on those resources fire authorities have to make dif...

Lower limits for exposure

May 13, 2019

In January 2018 the European Union adopted a directive (Directive 2017/2398) concerning workplace exposure to substances that have been identified as being either carcinogenic or mutagenic (ca...

HSE fee for intervention rate up

May 13, 2019

The Health and Safety Executive’s Fee For Intervention (FFI) scheme was launched in October 2012, this allows the HSE to charge organisations for the costs involved in investigating, issuing n...

Exposure to Silica

May 13, 2019

The HSE recently published the results of a bench marking survey looking at exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) in the brick manufacturing and stone working industries. Silica is n...

10 years of the gas safety register

May 13, 2019

The HSE report that every year around 14 people die from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by gas appliances and flues which have not been properly installed or maintained, faulty gas installat...

Updated COSHH guidance for woodworking

May 2, 2019

Organisations have a duty to protect their employees from hazardous substances at work. Where practical employers should aim to prevent exposure to the substances and where this is not practic...

HSE issue warning to livestock farmers

May 2, 2019

The HSE are currently running a programme of farm safety inspections. Agriculture, forestry and fishing remains one of the most hazardous industries in the UK with a fatal injury rate 18 times...

Big increase in drivers hours fines

March 29, 2019

Last year traffic examiners were given new powers to issue on-the-spot fines for any drivers’ hours offences committed in the last 28 days. Previously they could only issue fines for offence...