All construction workers have a right to work on sites where they do not get hurt or ill through work. This website will help overseas construction workers and their employers understand their roles and responsibilities under British health and safety law.
News from HSE
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- December
- November
- October
- September
- August
- July
- June
- 18 workers in the South West lose their lives at work
- Seven workers in Wales lose their lives at work
- 23 Scottish workers lose their lives at work
- HSE Chair speech – IOSH SW Branch
- New issue of RP News released
- Fewer construction workers killed in past year
- 24 killed while working in manufacturing
- Fewer workers killed in services sector
- Worker deaths in Britain fall to record low
- Tragic rise in agriculture deaths
- Dispelling health and safety myths
- HSE Chair’s speech to Quarries Target Zero
- RR816: Director leadership behaviour research
- Gas eBulletin – free news and updates
- Environment Agency consultation on its Generic Design Assessment findings so far
- RR815 – Second evaluation of guidance for directors and board members
- HSE Chair’s introduction and speech at the launch of European Campaign for Safe Maintenance
- Revised Section 3 guidance: Enforcing against public bodies and regulators
- RR817: Circumstances under which government guidance impacts on the actions of directors of corporate bodies
- Business Awareness Open Days – new dates added
- New nuclear build stakeholder strategy
- HSE Scotland Business Plan 2010/11
- RR810 – Health surveillance – a time for change? Workshop proceedings 07/08 July 2009
- Reducing MSDs – HSE’s new ART tool – Workshops during 2010
- RR809 – Healthy workplaces Milton Keynes pilot: Evaluation findings
- HSE Podcast – Offshore safety
- Improving health and safety in Scottish construction
- Worker left with amputated finger and cut hand
- Oldham developer fined for putting lives at risk
- Farmers urged not to misuse telehandlers
- Gas advice for landlords’ – dealing with tenants
- Steering Group publishes leadership of health and safety report
- Offshore Industry Advisory Committee Minutes 23 March 2010
- Land use planning advice around large scale petrol storage sites
- Teashack News – June 2010
- Wolverhampton building firm puts workers and others at risk
- Verification that safety critical elements are “suitable” at the commencement of a verification scheme
- HSE Chair’s speech to North West Regional Association’s Health and Safety Conference
- Agriculture eBulletin – free news and updates
- Treework article – Rigging research
- Two thirds of Scottish farms fail on quad bike safety
- Guidance on the Management of GDA Outcomes
- Quarterly Report for GDA published Jan-Mar 2010
- Woodworking – working safely with machinery
- Cases where local Planning Authorities were minded to grant planning permission against HSE’s advice
- HSE Board meeting agenda and papers – 30 June 2010
- Dunmow event to help reduce death and injury in farming
- Company fined £280,000 after worker’s head crushed
- Operational Note: Workplace fatality statistics released
- Construction company sentenced after worker’s foot amputated
- Selby company fined after explosion injures worker
- East Ayrshire council fined £56,000 following death of worker
- East Ayrshire council fined £56,000 following death of worker
- Rebuilding Cockermouth safely – event aims to cut serious injuries
- Tameside firm in court after worker crushed
- Worker’s fingers severed at London food firm
- Fairground ride owner and inspector convicted after women are flung from ride
- Recycling firm in court after worker loses leg under truck
- £39,960 in fines following serious roof fall
- £39,960 in fines following serious roof fall
- 10 years of safer quarries celebrated at major industry event
- 10 years of safer quarries celebrated at major industry event
- HSE appoints new agriculture champion
- HSE appoints new agriculture champion
- European campaign launched – Focus on Safe Maintenance
- Joint statement from the Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency
- Dungeness B Project Assessment Report (PAR) Executive Summary
- Agriculture Industry Advisory Committee Agenda – 21/06/2010
- Project Assessment Report (PAR) for Hunterston A
- FAQs – How do I carry out a risk assessment?
- Scientific Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification (Contained Use)
- Assembly Lines – March 2010
- Illegal gas fitter fined after elderly couple poisoned by carbon monoxide
- AALA Inspector Guidance Note 6.13 – Emergency action plans
- Speak Up, Stay Safe – British Safety Council campaign
- HSE Publications translated – information and advice in world languages
- Standard Industrial Classification 2007 (SIC 2007)
- HSE responds to Daily Mail
- Health and safety ‘used as an excuse’, Hackitt warns
- Registration and Licensing by HSE under the Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 (MSER)
- Health and safety ‘used as an excuse’, Judith Hackitt warns
- HSE publications – Free to download or purchase online
- Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP)
- The printer’s guide to health and safety
- Accident investigation – learning lessons from incidents workshops
- HSE Chair Speech – Speech to the Society of Occupational Medicine, Annual Scientific Meeting, Edinburgh
- Elderly resident lowered into scalding bath is left with first degree burns
- 53rd North West Safety Conference and Exhibition
- Diversity – National Men’s Health Week, 14 – 20 June
- Agricultural machinery – design, manufacture & supply
- Operation of auger feed devices
- Tywyn fitter is fined for illegal gas work
- Deaths prompt white van safety roadshow across London
- The generation gap: towards Generation Z
- Offshore Industry Advisory Committee Agenda 22 June 2010
- National Painting and Decorating Show 2010
- Bakery directors fined after staff exposed to risk of electrocution and irritant dust
- Dounreay Project Assessment Report (PAR) Executive Summary
- HSE Management Standards and stress-related work outcomes
- Warning to farmers using excavators with quick hitches for construction work
- Manager fined after 17-year-old trainee is injured
- Trust sentenced over bed rail death of disabled man
- FAQs – Do I need a licence to work with asbestos?
- Gas Safe Register – Better Gas Safe than sorry
- HELA minutes
- Roofers fined £200 each for working dangerously at height
- Bradford motor parts firm fined after worker injured
- Glasgow security firm fined following death of worker
- Offshore eBulletin – subscribe for free news and updates
- Safety Notice – Failures of manually operated side-door elevators
- Safety Alert – People in commercial waste containers
- People in commercial waste containers
- HSE Books catalogue 2010
- Construction leaflets in multiple languages
- Safety checks on quad bikes on Scottish farms
- Chief Executive’s Report to the Board – 26 May 2010
- HSE Chair Speech – Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath
- American Airlines fined after ground worker loses leg
- Boss fined £20,000 after worker loses foot in shavings machine
- Teesside firm fined for potential asbestos exposure
- 21-year-old employee killed after firm’s failings
- Out of control lift kills lift engineer
- High 5 for Boston builders
- Deaths prompt white van safety roadshow
- Food firm sentenced after worker’s finger severed
- Council and contractors fined for unsafe asbestos removal
- Woodworking – safe practice
- FAQs – Is there a maximum weight a person can lift during their work?
- Senior Management Team meeting agenda 5 May 2010
- Myth of the month – June 2010
- Nuclear 2009 LLC quarterly reports for Vulcan and BAE Barrow
- First aid at work newsletter – Issue 10
- SRO Newsletter – Spring Issue
- Sign workers injured after scaffold collapse
- Lack of traffic control leaves worker injured
- Company failed to check for dangerous asbestos fibres
- FAQs – What is the maximum/minimum temperature in the workplace?
- Minutes of the HSE Board open meeting held on 28 April 2010
- Premier league football club fined after worker’s three-metre fall
- High voltage shock lands stationery firm with fine
- Report encourages new ways of working to reduce injury in bed manufacturing
- Tackling stress – everyone has a role to play
- FAQs – How do I report accidents?
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