| Construction e-Bulletin: sign up today! | Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:17 |
| Join the 33,000 subscribers who receive HSE’s free construction health and safety email newsletter. In the latest edition: news Chief Inspector, Minister announces fatality inquiry…
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| New HSE Strategy - Have Your Say! | Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:07 |
| The Health and Safety of Great Britain \\ Be part of the solution - HSE invites you to help us with our mission - to prevent death, injury and ill-health in Great Britain’s workplaces - by becoming part of the solution.
New Strategy - have your say
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| Opportunities to Have Your Say! | Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:35 |
| Sign up for free email newsletters of mobile phone text messages - be the first to find out about public consultations and opportunities to have your say on workplace health and safety.
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| Taylor Woodrow prosecution highlights construction dangers | Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:01 |
| A fatal incident during the construction of the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, has prompted HSE to repeat messages about minimising workplace risks to employees and contractors.
Press release - fatal at National Assembly for Wales
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| HSE Podcast - new episode | Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:10 |
| In the December podcast episode we found out how the revamped vehicles at work website can help businesses to reduce risks, often at little cost. We also visited a Business Advice Open Day - free events that provide businesses with face to face access to HSE and other government agencies.
Listen, download or subscribe to the podcast
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| Business leaders and Directors: “take advantage” | Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:58 |
| HSE is urging industry leaders to take advantage of a free printed guide that could bring significant benefits to their business. The guidance, entitled, ‘Leading health and safety at work’, is issued jointly by the Institute of Directors & HSE.
Press release- free printed leadership guidance
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| Company and director fined for exposing staff to asbestos | Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:58 |
| HSE warns businesses to ensure they keep accurate details of asbestos in their buildings before any construction work takes place. Managers of non-domestic premises must also ensure they act upon any information about asbestos, which they may hold. The warning follows a serious incident in which at least 15 tradesmen were exposed to airborne asbestos fibres [...] | |
| Vehicles at work - site maintenance and layout issues | Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:52 |
| These web pages are for workplace managers who are responsible for the safe movement of traffic and pedestrians around the workplace. You may also find them of interest if you design workplaces.
Vehicles at work - site maintenance and layout issues
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| New Chief Inspector of Construction | Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:14 |
| HSE is pleased to announce that Philip White, currently on secondment to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), has been appointed Chief Inspector of Construction. Philip will take up the London-based post early in the new year.
View New Chief Inspector of Construction appointed press release
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| Working on roofs - INDG284 | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:06 |
| Working on a roof can be dangerous. Falls account for more deaths and serious injuries in construction than anything else and roofers account for 24% – the biggest category of worker by far – of those people who are killed in all falls from height.
Download INDG284 - Working on roofs [PDF 314KB]
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