Research and consultancy from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) can help you solve problems and reduce workplace harm.
Our centre for data analytics is enabling a data-driven approach to health and safety, harnessing the opportunities for AI and new technologies to improve performance today and into the future.
Data-driven insights
The ability to extract intelligence from data has the potential to predict risk and save lives. For 50 years as Great Britain's health and safety regulator, we have used robust analysis techniques to extract intelligence from the data we collect. We use it to:
- inform and prioritise our regulatory activity
- underpin our guidance and policy
- support our scientific research activities
Our data scientists can do this for you. By applying innovative techniques, HSE can help you gain fresh and beneficial insights from our data and yours, unlocking intelligence that will help you to take an evidence-based approach to managing and improving health and safety risk within your organisation.
How our data and analytics can help you
The following examples show how HSE is using data to make evidence-based improvements to workplace health and safety.
Discovering safety
This programme is using data and analytical techniques to provide new insights and approaches to help to reduce injuries and fatalities from workplace activity.
Find out more about discovering safety.
Regulatory sandboxes
These collaborative environments jointly explore how AI and other new technology can help improve health and safety risk understanding and management for the current and future workplace.
We have created the world’s first Industrial Safetytech Regulatory Sandbox on discoveringsafety.com for the construction sector to explore how innovative technologies can help improve health and safety.
Find out more about the Industrial Safetytech Regulatory Sandbox.
National Population Database
Our National Population Database (NPD) is a unique geographical information system (GIS) dataset enables the estimation of residents, workers and other population types in any location in Great Britain - down to individual building level.
The NPD can be used to assess the risk to people from major hazards to:
- minimise the risk associated with major building works of infrastructure upgrades by construction or utilities companies
- enable telecoms providers to position mobile communications masts in the best place to ensure maximum coverage in any given location
- provide traffic management modelling capabilities for transport companies
- give businesses confidence in their emergency resilience or disaster recovery planning
Watch our YouTube video for an introduction to HSE's NPD tool.
Learn more about the NPD database and how to get access to the portal.
HSE data sources
HSE has collected a vast archive of incident, accident, investigation and concerns data over the past 50 years. Some of our data sources have been further supplemented with data from industry stakeholders to enrichen the information with up-to-date and applicable knowledge.
We use the collected data to provide new insights, tools, techniques and approaches to industry. In this way we share the knowledge that underpins everything we do.
Statistics and incident data
HSE publishes a range of statistics relating to health and safety in Great Britain. Using a variety of data sources, including surveys and surveillance schemes, we provide statistics on:
- work-related ill health and disease
- workplace injury
- enforcement of health and safety legislation
- working days lost and costs to Britain as a result of health and safety incidents
- working conditions and management of health and safety in the workplace
Find out more about HSE data sources.
What sets us apart
As Great Britain’s health and safety regulator, we bring together:
- access to unique regulatory data collected over the last 50 years
- regulatory insights grounded in real-world application
- access to world-class health and safety science and engineering expertise
- our focus on shared challenges that are complex to resolve
We apply this deep knowledge to help you understand how to use your health and safety data to maximum benefit. We also create collaborative environments to explore the potential for AI and new technology to improve health and safety risk management.
This enables you to improve your health and safety performance and productivity and ensure a safe and efficient workplace now and into the future.
Get in touch
For more information or to make an enquiry about HSE’s research and consultancy services get in touch on GOV.UK.
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