HSE Website Updates

Keep up to date with the HSE website developments and announcements with having to leave this site. All HSE website news will be published here on this page. 

The HSE website is the online home of the UK Health And Safety Executive.

On the HSE website the Health and Safety Executive quote that "Our job is to prevent death, injury and ill-health to those at work and those affected by work activities".

The website was redesigned in 2009 and it is a very good resource of information and in my opinion well organised if you are looking for formal guidance.

You can keep up to date with all developments on the HSE website by visiting this page where all the updates issued by the Health and Safety Executive will be published for your convenience.

As you would expect from the governing body for health and safety most of the HSE website is very formal but one of the pages that is less formal and worth a visit is the myth of the month page, which is designed to help with the sometimes silly publicity that the HSE receive.

The Chair is the Health and Safety Executive is Judith E Hackitt CBE. Judith was appointed Chair of the Health and Safety Commission with effect from 1 October 2007 for a term of 5 years and became Chair of the Health and Safety Executive when the two organisations merged on 1 April 2008. Judith previously served as a Commissioner between 2002 and 2005. She was awarded her CBE for services to health and safety.

Back to the website items on the HSE website support the HSE's mission which is : 'to ensure that risks to people's health and safety from work activities are properly controlled'.

Work activities for which HSE has responsibility include : industrial manufacturing, agriculture, mining and quarrying, offshore oil and gas production and construction.

Guidance on how to avoid a variety of workplace risks in these and other workplaces is offered, as are national statistics on the numbers and types of incident resulting from the failure to adequately control workplace risks.

The HSE website can be found at hse.gov.uk  

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