The ability to read and understand health and safety guidance may depend on an individual’s literacy level.
Unison have identified that literacy, language and numeracy skill gaps are a fundamental health and safety concern.
News from HSE
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- December
- November
- October
- September
- Innovation in safety – small business award
- Double prosecution after two thrown from fairground ride at British Grand Prix
- Various Nuclear LLC quarterly 2010 reports published
- Skegness firm prosecuted over fatal fall at Doncaster farm
- Manufacturing company prosecuted after horrific hand injury
- Materials and corrosion strategy 2009-2014
- Packaging firm fined after worker’s fingers severed
- Concrete firm fined after worker’s roof plunge
- Technical assessment guide revision programme
- Hazard healthcheck to benefit West Yorkshire workers
- Council fined after putting worker in asbestos danger
- Justification for return to service from Forced Outage 43 (FO43)
- Health and Safety Board Agenda 29 September 2010
- Third Report of the GDA Process Review Board
- Chicken firm fined after worker skins hand
- HSE Podcast – Electric gates safety warning
- Advisory Committee on Pesticides open meeting
- Getting started with health and safety – Your employer’s responsibilities
- Did you know… Literacy
- Glass maker fined for lead contamination at factory
- Newsprint firms fined after worker’s leg amputated
- HSE responds to Scottish Daily Express letter
- Company fined after worker’s saw injury
- Preston engineering firm in court over worker’s death
- Walkers fined after man killed by toxic gas
- Chemical manufacturers and suppliers – new notification requirements
- Construction giant fined £160k after man falls to his death
- Free event – Motor Vehicle Repair Safety and Health Awareness Day
- Safe and Healthy Workplace Maintenance (a European Health and Safety Week event)
- Majority of local authorities satisfy asbestos management rules in ’system build’ schools
- Textile company fined after worker’s arm crushed in roll of fabric
- Port authority and shipping company fined £185,000 after drowning
- Ladder Exchange Initiative 2010
- Wood Safety Group meeting – 5 August 2010
- Husband and wife fined over gas safety breaches
- Prestwich firm fined after putting lives at risk
- Manufacturer fined over former soldier’s death
- Myth of the Month: HSE bans traditional school ties
- Atherton roofer fined after putting lives at risk
- New agreement to improve health and safety on construction sites
- RoSPA Construction Health and Safety Conference
- RoSPA Asbestos Health and Safety Conference
- Pipeline safety regulations consultation analysis
- HSE and pipelines – updated inspection issues and recommendations for Hydrocarbon Risers
- Reinforcing wire corrosion in flexible pipe – research published on HSE website
- Generic Design Assessment of new nuclear reactors seminar
- Proposed third amendment to Annex I of Regulation (EC) No.2008
- HSE’s position on approved medical examiner of divers (AMED)
- Human factors integration – T/AST/058
- Important approved medical examiner of divers (AMED) information
- Event helps borders construction companies cut deaths
- FLTA’s National Fork Lift Safety Conference
- Tadcaster firm fined for failing its own workers
- College hosts safety courses for horse industry
- Kishorn fish farmers to attend aquaculture safety event
- Construction Infonet August 2010
- Crown Censure for Ministry of Defence
- Glass company fined for workers’ fall risk
- Local authorities reminded of their health and safety responsibilities
- HSE begins Seveso review research survey
- Free event – Managing for safety: The Cutting Edge
- Open forums on Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007
- Audio interview – training and supervision
- Worker hit by ejected cut-off
- UK’s biggest food manufacturer fined after worker’s skull crushed
- £30k fines after Salford worker killed by digger bucket
- Company fined after 17-year-old worker injured in fall
- EEF Safe Maintenance events
- Case study – Supermarket fined after ignoring advice on floor tiles
- Plumber given suspended jail sentence
- EEF / HSE / TUC / EU Safe Maintenance events
- Company fined £33,000 for asbestos breaches at MOD base
- Company fined after worker injured in fall from dock
- Annual Sheffield Occupational Health and Safety Association Conference
- Council fined after child injured at Tyneside museum
- Luton companies ignored warnings on electrical equipment
- Getting started with health and safety – step by step advice
- Biosecurity: Guidance to FOD staff who visit farms
- Dangerously faulty play equipment leads to prosecution
- St Helens safety event aims to cut construction injuries
- New Project Assessment Reports (PARs)
- Workforce Involvement Group (WIG)
- Worker dies during demolition at boarding school
- Firm fined after worker burned
- Builder fined after hand is disfigured
- New safety advice issued on electric gates
- Safety notice – Risks to pedestrians from crushing zones on electrically powered gates
- Project Assessment Report – Executive Summary for Urenco
- PAR – Executive Summary for Devonport Royal Dockyard
- East Midlands farmers urged to strap up during harvest
- Worker’s clothing set alight in electrical explosion
- Company fined after two workers severely injured within three months
- Company and director prosecuted after worker plunges thirty feet
- PAR – Executive Summary for Sellafield
- August
- July
- June
- May
- April
- March
- February
- January
- 2009