HSE

HSE: Health and Safety Executive

Our mission is to prevent death, injury and ill health in Great Britain’s workplaces.

The health and safety executive helps you with the guidance of health and safety in work businesses etc.

Risk management

Risk management involves you, the employer, looking at the risks that arise in the workplace and then putting sensible health and safety measures in place to control them.

The HSE regularly issues news stories in relation to health and safety in the workplace. We also respond to related articles and reports in the British media.

The HSE has news articles on thier website about accidents that have happened at someones work. An owner of a workplace can then look at this and relate to thier workplace and would do a risk accessement on this and make sure thier workers are safe workin in the workplace.

Here is a link to a news report that warns sole traders after a laborour was killed by a steel joist.

http://news.hse.gov.uk/2009/10/28/hse-warning-to-sole-traders-after-labourer-killed-by-a-falling-steel-joist/?rss=Press%20release