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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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