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Annual Update
Each year we attend various updates and training sessions to help maintain our CPD and competency. We decided to share some slides from our most recent update and here they are: HSE priorities to 2032 Fatal injuries 2024/2025 by industry Fatalities by age / country Non fatal injuries Ill health
Stress Awareness Week 2025 (3 to 7 November)
Stress Awareness Week 2025 (3 to 7 November) Stress is a health and safety risk – and it’s the law to act. As Stress Awareness Week 2025 gets underway, HSE’s Working Minds campaign can help you do so. We’re reminding employers that work-related stress is a legal health and safety
Accident and Near-miss Tool
Overview The newly released Accident and Near-miss Tool helps organisations reduce the burden of managing incident records while ensuring compliance with the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR). It automates the collection of accident and near-miss records, allowing teams to filter by location, type or theme (for example, slips, stress
HSE News
Worcester waste company fined after worker suffers life-changing crush injuries A Worcester-based waste and recycling company has been fined £160,000 after a loading shovel bucket fell onto a maintenance worker. Blackpole Recycling Limited was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the incident at its site on Blackpole
Workplace basics
What you must provide for a safe and healthy workplace Welfare facilities Workers must have access to: A healthy working environment To have a healthy working environment, make sure there is: A safe workplace To keep your workplace safe, you must: There are specific laws relating to some higher-risk workplaces,
HSE Bulletin
Vehicle and transport safety at work (HSE Bulletin) Being struck by a vehicle continues to be one of the main causes of fatal and major injuries in the workplace. The latest figures for 2024 to 2025 show that show that 14 workers were killed when struck by a moving vehicle.
‘Relationships’ are one of the 6 main causes of stress at work.
Although dealing with conflict can be something many people actively seek to avoid, new research shows that people rarely regret trying informal approaches. Last month Acas published independent research exploring how workplace conflicts are managed informally. It found that when done well and used appropriately, informal resolution offers a lot of
Ladders and Stepladder
Ladders and stepladders are not banned under health and safety law. The law calls for a sensible, proportionate approach to managing risk, and ladders can be a sensible and practical option for low-risk, short-duration tasks, although they should not automatically be your first choice. There are simple, sensible precautions you
BSR governance changes
Reforms to the Building Safety Regulator bring new leadership, investment and process to accelerate housebuilding Delays to building new high-rise homes will be unblocked through a new package of reforms to the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) announced today. These reforms, which include a new Fast Track Process, changes to leadership and
Firm handed £220,000 fine after its director was killed by reversing lorry
British Millerain Company Ltd failed to install a safe system of work to manage HGVs reversing into its warehouse and also failed to assess the risks involved in undertaking this work as well as providing training to staff, a court has been told. Daniel Ames, one of the firm’s directors,
HSE news and information
COSHH training course: Practical assessment and control 8 and 9 July, HSE Science and Research Centre, Buxton HSE’s 2-day training course provides detailed and practical training on carrying out COSHH assessments and implementing controls. Delegates will be provided with information that will help them to: Book your place Visit our
Is my risk assessment approach suitable and sufficient?
If you can answer ‘yes’ to all the questions, then your approach is likely to be considered a suitable and sufficient risk assessment for work related stress. It is important that you document what you have done, whether you follow the Management Standards approach or an alternative approach to carrying
School trust fined after member of public hit by falling tree branch
A school academy trust has been fined and a man given a suspended prison sentence after a member of the public was hit by a falling tree branch. Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust and gardening services provider Nicolas Thépot (trading as ‘The Green Yem’) both pleaded guilty to health and
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