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Guidance: health and safety
Help and information to keep people safe and healthy at work
Chemicals, fumes and dust
Using and controlling substances hazardous to health (COSHH)
The basics for your business
Your main responsibilities as an employer
Apply, notify or report
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Manage risk
Practical steps to protect people. Know the risks and plan to avoid or control them
Construction
Site safety, working at height, scaffolding and Construction Design Management
RIDDOR
Some serious workplace accidents, diseases or near misses (RIDDOR) must be reported
The law
The Health and Safety at Work Act, criminal and civil law
Asbestos
Know the dangers. Get a licence to work with asbestos. Find out about training
News
Safety notice: Risk of serious injury from motion compensated gangways
Recent incidents have highlighted the potential for, and resulted in, serious personal injury during the deployment and use of motion compensated gangways
Safety notice: Service lifts in offshore and onshore wind turbines
The design of gates, associated guarding, and the position of the external controls of lifts in use should immediately be checked
HSE's regulatory approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
HSE regulates AI in a way that aligns with our mission and priorities
Winners of MSD risk reduction through design award 2024 announced
The awards celebrate solutions that reduce the risk of MSDs in the workplace
Safety notice: Manufacture, storage and carriage of thermites
Thermites, and thermite containing articles are currently being transported either as non-dangerous goods or as Class 4.1 dangerous goods (flammable solids)
HSE publishes annual work-related ill health and injury statistics for 2022 to 2023
The statistics reveal that 1.8 million workers reported they were suffering from work-related ill health in 2022/23
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