Prosecutions for health and safety offences fell over last year, but inspections increased slightly, according to HSE’s annual report published this summer.
By Belinda Liversedge on 01 September 2023
Forty workers lost their lives falling from height last year, eleven more than the year before that, and an increase of five on the past five-year average (35 deaths), HSE statistics show. Falls remain the most common cause of workplace death.
By Belinda Liversedge on 07 July 2023
Years of underfunding, overwork and underpay at Britain’s principal workplace safety regulator have created a capacity, staffing and skills crisis that threatens its ability to keep people safe at work.
By Mike Clancy, Prospect on 30 June 2023
HSE could do more to drive improvements in workplace health and wellbeing, a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) review has said.
By Belinda Liversedge on 08 June 2023
HSE must investigate work-related suicides and ensure they are subject to the same requirements for reporting and prevention as other occupational deaths.
By Belinda Liversedge on 01 June 2023
HSE has begun a series of summer inspections targeting dust exposure risk at construction sites across Great Britain.
By Belinda Liversedge on 15 May 2023
HSE inspectors and scientists joined 133,000 civil service workers to strike for fair pay on Wednesday 15 March, also Budget Day.
By Belinda Liversedge on 20 March 2023
HSE is exploring how AI and data can help employers understand more about how accidents happen and how to prevent them through thousands of stories and reports it stores.
By Belinda Liversedge on 22 March 2023
A new ‘gateway’ approval process aims to ensure the safety of certain high-rise residential buildings in Britain.
By Colin Blatchford-Brown, HSE on 21 February 2023
By Hannah Burton, Pinsent Masons on 01 August 2022
