Back disorders are the most common form of ill health at work. The exact cause of back pain is often unclear but back pain is more common in jobs that involve driving, especially over long distances or over rough ground.
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- Take a risk – it’s good for your health
- Contractor fined following incident at sewage works
- Stone workers event is a resounding success
- Safety Notice – The back-loading and carriage of hazardous oil contaminated bulk cargo on offshore supply vessels
- Potential effects of noise induced hearing loss
- Podcast – Noise and vibration at work
- Firm fined after worker’s arm trapped in drill
- Recycling firm fined for flammable material used in arson attack
- Plumber and mobile home park fined as residents left at risk
- Builders to decide guilt of Cardiff site manager
- HSE Chair Speech – IOSH 10
- HSE and council help businesses get safe and healthy
- Firm fined £100,000 after factory worker’s death
- Kent construction employer found guilty after death of employee
- £19,000 fine after mother and daughter poisoned by CO2
- Building company fined after digger runs over worker
- Safety Alert – Use of chain flail/non standard accessories on brush cutters
- Shattered Lives – request a free danger sign
- Construction tower cranes – guidance on complying with the regulations free leaflet INDG437
- First aid at work newsletter – Issue 9
- Failure rate and event data for use within land use planning risk assessments
- Outreach Workers – vacancies
- £19,000 fine after mother and daughter poisoned by carbon monoxide
- Strategy pledge Forum – Tell us what you’ve been doing
- Company and director fined after worker falls to death from statue
- Leicestershire company fined for unsafe work at height
- Serial gas offender prosecuted for endangering lives
- Annual Report of the Adventure Activities Licensing Service 2008/2009
- Provision of contact centre and associated services at the HSE as part of the EASe programme
- Good practice reminder on open farms
- Rosyth Royal Dockyard Ltd fined £10,000
- Death prompts telehandler warning
- One in four Cumbrian construction sites fail safety inspections
- Safety Notice – Death prompts telehandler warning
- Assessment of Repetitive Tasks of the upper limbs (the ART tool)
- Shattered Lives – use STEP and learn how to reduce slips and trips
- Rubber Industry Advisory Committee (RUBIAC)
- Provision of welfare facilities during construction work
- HSE Chair Judith Hackitt urges schools to take more risks
- Risk Assessments for Legionella Control – London
- Managing health and safety – guidance and advice for successful management
- Builder fined £2,000 after workers’ first floor fall
- Greengrocer owner fined £2,100 for having no insurance
- Paper and Board Industry Advisory Committee (PABIAC)
- LPG bulk installations and pipework topic inspection pack
- Fine after worker has finger crushed by 40 tonne press
- Offshore Industry Advisory Committee Agenda 23 March 2010
- Local Authority Circular – The control of silica risks associated with kerb, paving and block cutting
- Trainee Inspector recruitment – starts 7 April 2010
- Dewsbury landlord prosecuted for exposing tenant to gas dangers
- New tool launched online to help prevent musculoskeletal disorders
- Flood-hit town gets safety support
- Construction leaflets – for busy builders
- Suffolk company fined after worker suffered serious injury
- RR779 – Review of FLACS version 9.0: Dispersion modelling capabilities
- Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee
- Farmers urged to wear protective clothing when treating sheep
- Fines after worker left brain damaged by fall
- Aberdeenshire company fined after apprentice joiner injured in fall
- Construction company fined £10,000 after workers taken to hospital with lead poisoning
- Tackling stress – Oxford Council create teacher support programme
- Safety first ensures A40 in Pembrokeshire doesn’t turn into a slip road
- Newquay hotel fined for safety concerns at building site
- Tower cranes – new legislation comes into force 6 April 2010
- International Safety Awards – applications deadline
- Roadshows held to encourage cleaner air in workplaces
- A quarter of Greater Manchester construction sites fail safety inspections
- HSE Chair Speech – Schools Health and Safety Conference
- Keep your workplace “safe and sound” – practical help and guidance
- HSE Chair Speech – Local Government Strategy Workshop
- Shattered Lives – give us your feedback
- HSE in Europe
- Fire leaders back plan to strike the right balance on health and safety
- Solihull hammer firm hit with fine after worker injures hand
- Striking the balance between operational and health and safety duties in the Fire and Rescue Service
- Epidemiologist vacancy details
- Ladder exchange success is a step in the right direction
- Third set of 2009 pesticide residue figures released
- Tree Work News – April 2010
- Corus fined after mobile crane overturns
- ‘Do your bit’ to reduce death and injury in the workplace
- Tackling stress – Harrogate NHS case study
- Food and drink manufacture website rebranded
- HSE Chair Speech – Health and safety challenges for nuclear construction
- Event aims to keep London’s stonemasons safe
- Building company fined for putting workers at risk
- Nuclear stakeholder newsletter – February 2010
- Safety first for builders at the BBC’s new Salford HQ
- Shattered Lives – use ‘STEP’ to manage slips and trips risks
- Safe and sound at work – Do Your Bit with subsidised training from HSE
- Gas – Exercise Quartz information
- Construction site safety leaflets
- Merseyside builder fined after putting lives at risk
- Falkirk Wheel turns in support of national safety campaign
- Intervention overview record system
- Initiative launched to encourage quieter workplaces
- Careers in HSE – trainee inspector recruitment campaign
- Nuclear LLC Quarterly reports – Wylfa
- Prestigious award for HSE employee
- Firm fined after worker trapped for more than two hours in trench collapse
- Senior Management Team meeting minutes
- Free – Stone SHAD, London 25 March
- Consultation: biological agents pt1
- SEVESO eBulletin – free news and updates
- Inspections aim to improve safety on Hartlepool industrial estates
- All sectors of industry called to action on safety alerts
- Trafford lorry builder fined after worker crushed
- Senior Management Team meeting agenda
- Next generation of builders given advice to prevent shattered lives
- Wood Action Group
- Chief Scientific Adviser’s science reviews of the Health and Safety Laboratory
- Free seminar for the glass and glazing industry
- Cannock firm fined after worker’s arm damaged by drill
- Contractor fined for failing to provide toilets for workers
- Safe And Sound At Work – Do Your Bit!
- HSE investigates incident at Millennium Inorganic Chemicals Ltd
- Nuclear LLC Quarterly reports – Sizewell B
- Careers – Trainee Inspector recruitment starts 7 April
- The true cost to Glasgow businesses of slips, trips and falls in the workplace
- The true cost to Aberdeen businesses of slips, trips and falls in the workplace
- The true cost to Edinburgh businesses of slips, trips and falls in the workplace
- Nuclear Security Inspector – Information Security
- Improving health and safety: An analysis of HSE’s risk communication in the 21st century
- Cambridge contractor fined after worker is buried by rubble
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- Nuclear LLC Quarterly reports – HM Naval Base Clyde
- Zookeepers back national safety campaign
- HSE Press Office: In the news
- Nuclear LLC Quarterly reports
- Risk of vehicles falling from two-post vehicle lifts
- February pesticide approvals
- Guidance on Working Time Regulations
- Shattered Lives – free ‘Danger’ display card
- Nuclear LLC Quarterly reports – Hunterston A
- HSE launches crackdown on dangerous construction sites
- Steel firm fined after worker severely injures leg
- Corrosion Specialist, vacancy HSL
- Workplace transport – Load Safety campaign
- Rotherham council and contractor fined after employee killed by reversing truck
- Lesson in safety for Darlington college staff and students
- Reducing the risks from top-handled chainsaw use
- Washington firm fined £2,000 after factory worker loses finger
- Water firm fined after man put in intensive care
- Rogue trader’ prosecuted for gas safety crimes
- New Managing for Health & Safety website launched
- Illegal gas fitter fined for putting residents at risk
- March 2010 myth of the month
- Whole-body vibration and ergonomics of driving occupations: Ports industry
- Regulatory Toxicologists vacancy details
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