Buildings that people use in their daily lives, such as workplaces, schools and hospitals are the focus of a new campaign to keep people safe from asbestos. Asbestos: Your Duty launches Monday 15 January aiming to improve understanding of what the legal duty to manage asbestos involves. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) wants anyone with […]
Millennials, gen Z workers and other younger people who work as plumbers, electricians, and in other trades need to take the risk of asbestos much more seriously. That’s the message from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The workplace regulator is today (March 6) launching a new campaign to raise awareness of the risks associated […]
Construction sites across Great Britain are to be targeted as part of a month-long respiratory health initiative by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), it has been announced today. Throughout June, inspections supported by HSE’s Dust Kills campaign will focus on respiratory risks and occupational lung disease. Each year in the construction industry, there are […]
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today published a report detailing that agriculture has the worst rate of fatal injuries of all the major industrial sectors, around 20 times higher than the average five-year annual rate across all industries. Provisional figures from 1 April 2020 until 31 March 2021 show 41 people were killed […]
