In this episode: We talk to Tom McLaren from the Offshore Safety Team about how offshore drilling is regulated in the UK, the latest news and HSE’s Helena Phillips answers your questions about the new Health and Safety poster.
News from HSE
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- December
- November
- October
- September
- August
- July
- Disability: Did you know…..?
- Disability: Did you know…..?
- Biscuit giant prosecuted after worker’s fingers severed in mixing machine
- HSE responds to Scotland on Sunday
- HSE welcomes Court of Appeal decision
- Pontypool building firm prosecuted for unlicensed asbestos work
- Carlisle worker’s skull crushed in six metre fall
- Architects and construction firm fined after worker falls nine metres to his death
- HSE responds to Express and Echo reader’s letter
- HSE responds to Portsmouth News letters page
- HSE publications translated – Information and advice in world languages
- BOAD free events nationwide – new dates
- Quarry firm fined after worker plunge in 30-tonne wheel loader
- HSE targets ageing installations with new offshore inspection programme
- Provision of development of three pilot vocational “Learning Products”
- RR819: A small survey of exposure to rubber process dust, rubber fume and N-nitrosamines
- Provision of practical training for Agriculture Safety and Health Awareness Days (SHAD’s)
- Workyear 2010/2011: Inspection of premises using MbOCA and isocyanates in the manufacture of moulded polyurethane articles
- Buncefield prosecution – HSE podcast July 2010
- FAQs – Do employers have to provide personal protective equipment?
- Construction Infonet – July 2010
- HSE Board meeting agenda – July 28 2010
- Publication of HSE Annual Report and Accounts 2009/10
- Advice on acceptance criteria for damaged passive fire protection coatings on offshore installations
- Riser emergency shut down valve (ESDV) leakage assessment
- RR821 – Gathering intelligence from referrals to HSL for hand-arm vibration syndrome
- European campaign on hazardous substances in motor vehicle repair
- Good and best practice offshore – collection of examples
- Focus on…Serious accident on spindle moulder
- Operational circulars on REACH. OC 253/11, OC 253/12 and OC 253/13
- Hospitality Industry Newsletter – Issue 2
- Construction company put workers at risk of falls
- Castle Bromwich firm fined after worker injured by robot
- Noise ebulletin – free news and updates
- RR818 – Follow up evaluation of HSE’s web based Work-Related Violence Toolkit
- FAQs – When do the CDM Regulations 2007 apply to a project?
- HSE Chair’s speech at NEBOSH Graduation
- RR820 – Tower crane incidents worldwide
- Worker loses lower leg after paving machine crush
- HSE responds to Safety & Health Practitioner
- Firm fined after scaffold collapse
- Managing for Health & Safety – Know where you stand: essentials
- HSE Podcast – Buncefield prosecution
- SPC/Enf/171 – Duty holder consultation with safety representatives in safety cases
- FIT testing of Respiratory Protective Equipment facepieces – updated
- Work related stress – online exercises for health and safety representatives
- Offshore eBulletin – free news & updates
- Did you know…? Disability
- Peterlee firm fined after worker’s hand severed
- Telford firm fined after worker loses fingers
- The European Good Practice Awards 2010 – Safe Maintenance
- Agriculture champion’s stark message to Welsh farmers
- RoSPA Scotland Occupational Safety and Health at Work Congress
- RoSPA Scotland Occupational Safety and Health at Work Congress
- Pesticide approvals for June 2010
- Pesticide approvals for June 2010
- Temporary Refuge Impairment Frequency for Normally Unattended Installations
- Temporary Refuge Impairment Frequency for Normally Unattended Installations
- Frozen food specialist fined after worker loses finger
- Scaffolding firm prosecuted for dangerous installation
- Safety notice – Avoiding trapping/crushing injuries to people in the platform of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs)
- £9.5m bill for firms behind Britain’s most costly industrial disaster
- Arrangements for risk ranking and performance rating operators of Gas Distribution Networks and Pipelines
- SMT agenda, minutes and papers for 2 June 2010
- Woodworking health topics – manual handling
- Pirelli fined after Carlisle worker injured by forklift truck
- Firm fined after man has top of finger amputated
- Safety notice – Risks associated with working on or near lamp columns with non-standard roots during excavation works
- Better Gas Safe than sorry – Always check the card
- Steeplejack seriously injured after fall from bell chamber
- Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (ACTS)
- Worker suffers multiple injuries at barn
- Nuclear LLC quarterly reports 2010 (Qtr 2)
- Letter from joint chairs of HELA to Directors of Environmental Health/Chief Environmental Health Officers
- Local Authority Circular – Guidance for other people to accompany enforcement officers on site
- Design management
- Courtroom drama for construction industry
- Car wash firm failed to protect workers
- Caerphilly engineering company fined after workers’ fingers severed
- European campaign on hazardous substances in MVR
- Rise in farm deaths shows HSE is right to drive home message
- Two leading health and safety figures awarded engineering fellowship
- Nuclear LLC report Q2 2010 – Springfields Fuels Limited
- Introduction of safety bulletins
- HSE Podcast – How offshore drilling is regulated
- Health Protection Agency exposed staff to E.coli
- REACH Bitesize guides
- HSE Scotland eBulletin newsletter – subscribe today
- Managing the segregation and isolation of potable water systems on offshore installations
- Visibility for operators of telehandlers (variable reach lift trucks)
- Workforce Involvement Group (WIG) pages relaunched
- HSE formalises safety partnership with British Sugar
- London 2012 Games – HSE and the health and safety legacy
- July myth of the month – health and safety brings candyfloss to a sticky end
- Newmarket event to help reduce death and injury in farming
- FAQs – How many first aiders do I require?
- Farmers urged to think safety ahead of flagship show
- Foamed concrete explosion – HSE Investigation Concluded
- Safety Alert – Fatality caused by stacked boards collapse
- RR811: A literature review of the health and safety risks associated with major sporting events
- Review of CHaSPI
- Life saving work
- Rochdale cleaner’s crush death prompts £140,000 fine
- Free safety support for Southampton businesses
- Evaluation of the simplified lifting operations and lifting equipment leaflet (LOLER)
- Company fined after worker hit by fork-lift truck
- Roofing firm in court after apprentice plunge
- An investigation into the use of plasterboard manual handling aids in construction
- Nuclear LLC quarterly reports 2010 (Qtr 1)
- Company ordered to pay £75,000 after farm worker is crushed to death
- Machine supplier and university fined after worker traps arm in harvester
- Comet fined £75,000 over Wrexham fatal roof fall
- Comet group prosecuted following death of worker in Wrexham
- Three North East workers lose their lives at work
- HSE investigates two deaths involving gates
- 19 North West workers lose their lives at work
- CONIAC – Open meeting to be held on Wednesday 21 July 2010
- Farm worker’s arm cut with chainsaw
- 22 Yorkshire and Humber workers lose their lives at work
- Tackling stress at work – the roles everyone has to play
- Myth of the month – July 2010
- Action Mesothelioma Day 2010
- Ten West Midlands workers lose their lives at work
- Thirteen East Midlands workers lose their lives at work
- MDHS102 – Aldehydes in air
- RR804: Plastic containers for flammable liquids/hazardous areas
- Global logistics and tobacco firms fined after worker is crushed to death
- Worker shatters leg in telehandler plunge
- HSE supports decision on Ram Brewery development
- HSE Newsletter subscribe today – working in the public interest
- East of England workers lose their lives at work
- 11 London workers lose their lives at work
- Control and management of hazardous substances in semiconductor manufacturers in Great Britain in 2009
- 14 South East workers lose their lives at work
- Determining current health and safety practices, awareness of HSE initiatives and economic trends in relation to isocyanate paint use in the MVR sector
- HSE Chair speech – Devonport Dockyard
- Two Cornish companies fined after fall through fragile roof light
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- February
- January
- 2009