Manual handling compliance depends on how work is designed, assessed and controlled.
Thu 29th Oct 2026
An electrical company was found guilty after issuing false electrical safety certificates that left two car wash sites with dangerous installations an...
Tue 27th Oct 2026
The useful management test is whether the assessment still describes the risks and controls that exist in practice....
Thu 22nd Oct 2026
An employer was fined and a director given a suspended prison sentence after an employee fell from the open boot of a moving car and suffered life cha...
Thu 15th Oct 2026
A landlord was fined after failing to arrange annual gas safety checks for eight years at a rented house occupied by a mother and her five children.
Mon 12th Oct 2026
Maintenance risk is shaped by the condition of the equipment, the intervention required and the controls in place while normal safeguards may be unava...
Thu 8th Oct 2026
A manufacturing company was fined after a worker lost part of a thumb when a heavy hopper slipped during an unassessed manual handling operation.
Wed 7th Oct 2026
Managing workplace vibration requires employers to understand how much vibration employees actually receive during their working day....
Thu 1st Oct 2026
A worker died after being drawn into a compression conveyor through a gap in fixed guarding and the employer pleaded guilty to breaching PUWER 1998.
Tue 29th Sep 2026
A transport employer was fined after a pedestrian was struck and killed at a bus station crossing following longstanding safety failures.
Fri 25th Sep 2026
Artificial intelligence can help organisations analyse accident reports, near-miss descriptions, inspection findings and other safety record.....
Tue 22nd Sep 2026
HSE reports 17 convictions since 2025 for illegal gas work and urges people to check Gas Safe Register before any gas work.
Mon 14th Sep 2026
PPE can fail to provide the expected protection when it is poorly selected, does not fit the wearer, conflicts with other equipment or is used incorre...
Thu 10th Sep 2026
Fire doors, escape arrangements and alarms should not be managed as unrelated assets. Their specification and operation should follow from....
Thu 3rd Sep 2026
An employer was fined after five separate leaks of highly flammable hydrocarbons caused by corrosion under insulation and inadequate inspection arrang...
Wed 26th Aug 2026
A risk assessment should give managers a reliable picture of where people could be harmed and what the organisation is doing about it..
Thu 13th Aug 2026
Louise Hosking will join the HSE Board as a non executive director, bringing more than 30 years of sector experience.
Tue 11th Aug 2026
Waste compliance is best managed as a chain of decisions, beginning with purchasing and ending at an authorised recovery or disposal site....
Thu 6th Aug 2026
An unregistered gas installer was sentenced after carrying out illegal gas work that left two households with dangerous defects and one without hot wa...
This review, covering evidence from almost six decades, found that inspected workplaces had a 25 percent lower risk of work related injury.....
Tue 28th Jul 2026
Manual handling risk is often created by decisions about layout, storage, purchasing, staffing....
Thu 23rd Jul 2026
This review examines how occupational health and safety education can better protect young workers as they move from school into employment.
Tue 21st Jul 2026
A prosecution followed a fatal fall from a mobile loading ramp during container loading, highlighting failures in work at height planning and controls...
Fri 17th Jul 2026
A man who was not on the Gas Safe Register advertised gas fitting services online and carried out illegal work on multiple homes, resulting in a suspe...
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