Health and safety at work in Scotland

Who we work with

In Scotland the HSE works with many organisations to deliver heath and safety.

• Local authorities
• Scottish Government
• PHASS
• Healthy Working Lives
• POOSH Scotland
• Scottish Chamber of Safety

More about who we work with

Guidance

HSE offers advice and guidance covering many topics and industries.

• Topics
• Adventure activities licensing
• Appointed doctors
• Asbestos
• Asthma
• Back pain
• Better regulation
• Biosafety
• Business benefits
• Cancer (occupational)
• Carbon capture storage
• Carriage dangerous goods
• Chemicals
• CHIP
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• COMAH
• Competence in health and safety
• Compressed air
• Confined spaces
• COPD
• Corporate manslaughter
• COSHH
• Disability
• Diversity
• Drugs and alcohol
• Economics
• Electrical safety
• Ergonomics
• Estates Excellence
• Expectant mothers
• Falls from height
• Fee for Intervention
• Fire and explosion
• First aid at work
• Gas - Domestic
• Gas - LPG
• Gas - Supply
• GHS (Globally harmonised system)
• GMOs
• Health and safety made simple
• Health surveillance
• Horizon scanning
• Human factors
• Infections at work
• Involving workers
• Land use planning
• Lead
• Leadership
• Legionnaires' Disease
• LEV (Local Exhaust Ventilation)
• Lung disease
• Maintenance
• Managing for health and safety
• Metalworking fluids
• Migrant workers
• Moving goods
• Musculoskeletal disorders
• Nanotechnology
• New nuclear reactors
• Noise
• Offices
• Pressure systems
• Pipelines
• Radiation
• REACH
• Renewable Energy Technologies
• Respiratory protective equipment
• Risk education
• Risk management
• Road safety (work related)
• School trips
• Seveso Directive
• Sickness absence
• Skin at work
• Slips and trips
• Societal risk
• Stress
• Temperature
• Temporary and agency workers
• Transport (workplace)
• Vibration
• Violence (workplace)
• Voluntary organisations
• Vulnerable workers
• Welding
• Work equipment and machinery
• Young people

• Industries
• Agriculture
• Air transport
• Armed forces
• Biocides
• Catering and hospitality
• Cement
• Ceramics
• Chemicals
• Cleaning
• Concrete
• Construction
• Diving
• Docks (Ports)
• Education
• Engineering
• Entertainment and leisure
• Event safety
• Explosives
• Fire and rescue services
• Food and drink manufacture
• Footwear
• Gas - Domestic
• Gas - LPG
• Gas - Supply
• Glass and glazing
• Hairdressing
• Health and Social Care Services
• Heavy clay and bricks
• Laundries and dry-cleaners
• Leather
• Local government
• Logistics
• Manufacturing
• Mining
• Molten metals
• Motor vehicle repair
• Nuclear
• Offshore oil and gas
• Paper
• Pesticides
• Plastics
• Police
• Ports
• Printing
• Public services
• Quarries
• Railways
• Recycling
• Refractories
• Retail
• Rubber
• Stonemasonry
• Surface engineering
• Textiles
• Tree work
• Waste management
• Woodworking and furniture

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News

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Events

• Safety, Health & Environment Forum (Scotland) - Fire Safety
• Fife Health & Wellbeing Alliance - Health and Safety: A Basic Guide

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