Category:  Health & Safety

Spot checks are helping businesses reduce the spread of COVID-19

The HSE is continuing to support businesses by carrying out spot checks and inspections to ensure they are working safely and continuing to reduce the risk posed by COVID-19 transmission....

Drugs and Driving

The drug driving law changed on 2 March 2015 to make it easier for the police to catch and convict drug drivers under the influence of both illegal and certain...

Have you decided what your first aid needs are?

Since the Health and Safety Executive stopped approving first aid training and the centres that provide it, courses stopped being checked by a single external body and businesses no longer...

Brent building firm in court over fall dangers

A building firm in North West London has been fined for neglecting safety after a carpenter broke his collarbone and a rib when he fell through an unprotected rooflight opening....

HSE urges school leaders not to wrap kids in cotton wool

As the new school year begins, HSE is reminding school leaders to strike the right balance in their approach to health and safety risks. Some of the cases ruled on...

Fee for Intervention is effective and should stay, says report

A scheme designed to shift the cost of regulating workplace health and safety from the public purse to businesses who break the law has proven effective and should stay, an...

HSE Revise Guidance on Driving at Work

Approximately one in four road casualties in this country involve a driver at-work, The HSE have revised their guidance on managing work-related road safety. Their ‘Driving at Work: managing work-related...