Woodworking is the only industry where machinery accidents cause more injuries than slips and trips. This example illustrates safe practice when stake pointing on a circular saw.
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- Updating COMAH – 18th HSE/EA/SIESO Workshop 30 April 2011, Manchester
- Quarry health and safety – Cutting injury and ill health to zero
- Film company fined after cameraman hurt on set
- London manufacturer fined for major safety breaches
- Leading horse trainer in court after worker’s fall
- RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2012 – Registration update for Scotland awards
- HSE clampdown to improve construction site safety in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire
- Ports and Logistics sector data summary and analysis
- HSE clampdown to improve construction site safety in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk
- Updating COMAH – 18th HSE/EA/SIESO Workshop 30 April 2012, Manchester
- Asbestos Where is it? – Free BAOHSF event Keighley 20 March 2012
- RR912 – Management of ageing: A framework for nuclear chemical facilities
- Printing industry: manual handling – what you need to know
- HSE Responds to Western Morning News article
- LC3 Consent to lease of building A709 to National Nuclear Laboratory Limited
- Air transport industry statistics report
- RR844 – An assessment of the level of compliance with the statutory duty to obtain insurance under the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969: Final Report
- West Cumbria Site Stakeholder Group Emergency Planning Working Group half yearly report
- Job vacancy – Chief Executive for the Health & Safety Executive for Northern Ireland
- Health and social care services FAQs – Health surveillance for occupational contact dermatitis
- Fatal injuries in farming, forestry, horticulture and associated industries 2010/11
- HSG261: Health and safety in motor vehicle repair and associated industries
- Worker involvement – Prepare, plan, consult and improve
- Fall from height leads to fines
- Company fined after worker sustains serious burns
- Yorkshire trailer firm fined £100,000 over driver’s death
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Kent construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Surrey construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Thames Valley construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in East Sussex and West Sussex
- Llanelli construction firm fined over worker’s injury
- Gust of wind blows worker off top of shipping container
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on London construction sites
- Fife company fined after lathe crushes worker’s leg
- RR910 – Survival of Legionella pneumophila in metalworking fluids
- Health and Safety law poster – Available in various formats
- Biosafety – Infections at work
- Office for Nuclear Regulation Inspector vacancies
- November 2012 Biocidal Products Directive Annex I Inclusion Decisions
- Nanotechnology – What are nanomaterials?
- Workers exposed to asbestos at Redditch industrial unit
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole
- RR914 – An evaluation of the efficacy of safer sharps devices: Systematic review
- Musculoskeletal Disorders eBulletin – Free subscription
- HSE clampdown to improve construction site safety in West Yorkshire
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Gloucestershire’s construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Somerset’s construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on the West’s construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Wiltshire’s construction sites
- Wylfa – 2011 periodic shutdown – consent to start up Reactor 1 following a periodic shutdown
- Cases where local Planning Authorities were minded to grant planning permission against HSE’s advice – New items added
- Berkeley Site – Agreement to proceed with Safety Category 2 or lower Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) retrieval works
- Education case studies – School trips
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Worcestershire construction sites
- Lancashire widow backs construction site clampdown
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Shropshire construction sites
- Clampdown tackles death and injury on Cheshire construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Staffordshire construction sites
- Clampdown tackles death and injury on Cumbria construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Coventry and Warwickshire construction sites
- Clampdown tackles death and injury on Greater Manchester construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in Birmingham and the Black Country
- Clampdown tackles death and injury on Merseyside construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites
- Risk management – Online example assessments
- Carriage of Dangerous Goods Prohibition Notices – September/October 2011
- HSE Board agenda 7 December 2011 – Presentation added
- COSHH – How does it affect you in your industry?
- Cheshire manufacturer sentenced over finger loss
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Glasgow construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Derbyshire construction sites
- Property manager fined for asbestos failings
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on County Durham construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Teesside construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Leicestershire and Rutland construction sites
- Automotive component manufacturer fined after worker loses fingers
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Lincolnshire construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Tyneside construction sites
- Gas engineer left pub kitchen at risk
- Q4 2011 LLC reports – Wylfa and Dounreay
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Scottish construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Nottinghamshire construction sites
- Film, theatre & broadcasting eBulletin – Sign up for free
- Owner fined for girl’s fall from funfair ride in Birmingham
- Vehicle repair firm in court over Manchester roof death
- Dorset firm fined after worker’s arm was crushed in machinery
- London construction company fined after worker badly injured
- Public Consultation – Proposals to revoke seven Statutory Instruments
- CD237 summary report: Analysis of Responses Received to Statutory Consultation to the proposed Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
- Q4 2011 LLC reports – AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield, Dungeness, Vulcan and Clyde
- Woodworking: Working with machinery – stake pointing on a circular saw
- BSC: International Safety Awards 2012 – London 18 May 2012
- St Helens man sentenced over gas explosion
- Control of Pesticides Regulations (COPR) new approvals – January 2012
- Health & safety for disabled people – Key points to remember
- Construction e-Bulletin – January 2012
- Nuclear LLC/SSG Q4 reports – Hinkley Point B and Sizewell B
- Students keep gas safe – CO poisoning: don’t become a statistic
- Crown Censure of HM Prison Service
- RR908 – Vapour cloud formation: Experiments and modelling
- Council in court after respite resident scalded
- Printing industry safety – FAQs
- Nuclear LLC/SSG Q4 reports – Sellafield, Calder Hall and Windscale
- Ports – A quick guide to health and safety
- Illegal Gloucestershire gasman lied about credentials
- Landlord prosecuted for putting students at risk
- Office health and safety – Risk assessment tool
- HSE responds to Max Hastings in the Daily Mail over National Trust claims
- Behaviour Based Safety – How to Improve Health & Safety Culture, London 7 March 2012
- Bus company prosecuted after worker is crushed
- Company fined £133,000 after unguarded machinery death (COPFS release)
- Bradford man prosecuted for illegal gas work
- Vehicles at work – Interactive case studies
- Two companies fined after fatality in Brentford
- Unsafe asbestos removal put people at risk
- RR906 – Collision and injury criteria when working with collaborative robots
- ONR vacancy: Chief Operating Officer
- Falls from height – Frequently asked questions
- Workers seriously injured after eight metre fall
- Man’s fingertip sliced off at stoke factory
- Turning concern into action – Construction video
- Q4 2011 Site Stakeholder Group reports for Barrow and Raynesway
- Working Safely with Nanomaterials – Conference 6th July 2012, Edinburgh
- Quarterly statement of nuclear incidents at nuclear installations – October to December 2011
- Nuclear LLC/SSG Q4 reports – Sellafield-Capenhurst, Urenco-Capenhurst, Springfields, Hunterston ‘B’ and Hartlepool
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- International fencing firm prosecuted for serious safety failings
- Unregistered gas engineer left householders in danger
- Company fined after worker’s arm is impaled by steel bars
- ONR publishes Quarterly News
- 3M/HSE 2nd Joint Hearing Seminar – Stoke-on-Trent, 3 May 2012
- Stress in your workplace? – Harrogate, 22 February 2012
- HSE Chair speech to Westminster Legal Policy Forum – The future of health and safety regulation: in search of a common sense approach
- L73 – A guide to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
- Lung diseases – Causes of extrinsic allergic alveolitis
- Speech by HSE Chair to Association for Science Education (ASE) Annual Conference
- RR901 – Prospective evaluation of the 1991 NIOSH Lifting Equation
- Fire and explosion – Simple guide to dangerous substances
- Farmworker suffered severe injuries in fall
- Plumber jailed for carrying out illegal gas work
- Safety chief uses high-hazard visit to distinguish real health and safety from the nonsense
- ‘Safer together – moving forward’ – NASHiCS Capital event, Edinburgh 3 April 2012
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