HSE Press Office: Putting the record straight in 2004

Responding to health and safety related articles and reports in the British media. HSC/E also takes an interest when other organisations respond to the media.

• 05 October 2004: The Times, 'Safety goggles required when playing conkers' - Bill Callaghan, Chair, Health and Safety Commission responds
• 10 September 2004: The Times: 'Lofty essay on Petrarch and mountains' - Bill Callagan, Chair, Health and Safety Commission responds
• 12 August 2004: The Times, 'Attack on HSE's approach to sensible health and safety' - Justin McCracken, HSE's Deputy Director-General responds
• 11 August 2004: The Daily Mail, 'Why I became a Health and Safety Commissioner' - Judith Hackitt, Health and Safety Commissioner responds
• 11 August 2004: The Daily Mail, 'Nanny strikes again': stress in the workplace - Justin McCracken responds
• 02 August 2004: The Financial Times: 'Regulator's warning on Network Rail' - Bill Callaghan, Chair, Health and Safety Commission responds
• 09 July 2004: Daily Telegraph, 'Abolish Health and Safety - Improve Pensions' - Timothy Walker responds
• 15 June 2004: RAIL: Feature by Alan Osborne on railway safety - Bill Callaghan, Chair, Health and Safety Commision and Timothy Walker, HSE's Director-General respond [32kb]
• 28 May 2004: Public Finance, 'New trains of thought': eliminating risks - Timothy Walker responds
• 03 June 2004: Westmorland Gazette: 'Danger Signs for Fells': warning signs for mountaineers and climbers - Ian Greenwood, HSE's Policy Team, Falls from Height responds
• 23 May 2004: Sunday Herald: 'In Safe Hands?': role of the Health and Safety Executive - Stewart Campbell - HSE Director, Scotland - responds
• 24 March 2004: The Guardian, Potters Bar accident - Mike Weightman - HSE Potters Bar Investigation Board responds
• 20 May 2004: The Herald, Major incident at ICL Plastics - Stewart Campbell - HSE Director, Scotland responds
• 16 May 2004: The Sunday Herald, 'Revealed: catalogue of health and safety hazards at explosion factory': ICL Plastics - Stewart Campbell - HSE Director, Scotland responds
• 20 May 2004: The Scotsman,Major incident at ICL Plastics - Stewart Campbell - HSE Director, Scotland responds
• 14 May 2004: The Independent, 'We care more for animals than workers' - Timothy Walker responds
• 03 May 2004: The Daily Telegraph, Stress at work - Jane Willis - HSE Policy Director responds
• April 2004: Modern Railways, Has HSE arbitrarily decreed the drop-dead date for MK1 railway stock? - Allan Sefton - Director of Rail Safety, HSE responds
• 27 April 2004: Financial Times, 'Railways win fight over safety' - Bill Callaghan - Chairman, HSC - responds
• 14 April 2004: Sunday Telegraph: Climbers to be shielded from perils of heights - Timothy Walker, HSE's Director-General responds
• 14 April 2004: The Daily Mirror: 'A polite reminder ... stop nannying us': slippery floors - Timothy Walker, HSE's Director-General responds
• Timothy Walker responds to the Letters Editor - Daily Mirror - 29 April 2004
• 11 April 2004: Health and safety - the 'cancer of a civilised society' - Timothy Walker, HSE's Director-General responds
• 30 March 2004: The Sun, A ban on window cleaners using ladders? - Bill Callaghan, Chair, Health and Safety Commission responds
  
• 09 March 2004: Trail: Spot the difference? Proposals for the new Work at Height Regulations - Bill Callaghan - Chair, HSC - responds
• 26 February 2005: The Times, 'Stay Cool': Stress among children - Timothy Walker, HSE's Director-General responds
• 23 February 2004: RAIL: HSE to blame for a number of preventable railway collisions? - Allan Sefton, HSE's Director of Rail Safety responds