Health and Safety
Executive

Information and services

• Guidance: health and safety

  Help and information to keep people safe and healthy at work

• Chemicals, fumes and dust

  Using and controlling substances hazardous to health (COSHH)

• The basics for your business

  Your main responsibilities as an employer

• Apply, notify or report

  Apply for a licence, send us a form or report something in a workplace

• Manage risk

  Practical steps to protect people. Know the risks and plan to avoid or control them

• Construction

  Site safety, working at height, scaffolding and Construction Design Management

• RIDDOR

  Some serious workplace accidents, diseases or near misses (RIDDOR) must be reported

• The law

  The Health and Safety at Work Act, criminal and civil law

• Asbestos

  Know the dangers. Get a licence to work with asbestos. Find out about training

News

• Time running out as deadline to register high-rise buildings nears

  High-rise residential buildings must be registered with new regulator by October 1

• Safety alert: unsafe bolts on two-post vehicle lift

  Some lifts equipped with an arm restraint gear fastened by bolts fail to meet the necessary strength standard

• Work-related fatalities 2022/23

  Latest figures published on the number of workers killed in work-related incidents in Great Britain last year

• Safety alert: grating systems on offshore installations

  System damage can result from rig movements including towing, relocating semi-submersibles, jacking, or maneuvering jack-up rigs

• Safety notice: motorsport and leisure track safety

  There is a potential lack of awareness and understanding regarding the correct application and use of products as vehicle restraint barriers

• HSE campaign highlights dangers from metalworking fluids

  Inspectors are now visiting manufacturing businesses that use metalworking fluids or coolants in their machining processes

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