Information and services
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Guidance: health and safety
Help and information to keep people safe and healthy at work
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Chemicals, fumes and dust
Using and controlling substances hazardous to health (COSHH)
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The basics for your business
Your main responsibilities as an employer
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Apply, notify or report
Apply for a licence, send us a form or report something in a workplace
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Manage risk
Practical steps to protect people. Know the risks and plan to avoid or control them
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Construction
Site safety, working at height, scaffolding and Construction Design Management
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RIDDOR
Some serious workplace accidents, diseases or near misses (RIDDOR) must be reported
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The law
The Health and Safety at Work Act, criminal and civil law
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Asbestos
Know the dangers. Get a licence to work with asbestos. Find out about training
News
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HSE's 2024 Annual Science Review has been published
HSE has released the 2024 Annual Science Review, which focuses on the role played by our scientists, engineers and analysts
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Mental Health Awareness Week: New HSE campaign partners in construction and entertainment
HSE welcomes new partners from the construction and entertainment sectors to join its Working Minds campaign
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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
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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
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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)
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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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