What's new at HSE » 2008 » December http://news.hse.gov.uk News and updates from the Health and Safety Executive Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:52:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Deadline: biocides containing “unsupported” active substances http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/31/deadline-biocides-containing-unsupported-active-substances/?rss= Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:34:12 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5189 Reminder - certain biocidal products containing active substances cannot be sold in the EU or stored for any purpose from 21 August 2009.

Find out more on these product deadlines

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/31/deadline-biocides-containing-unsupported-active-substances/feed/ Docks website re-launched http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/31/docks-website-re-launched/?rss= Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:19:57 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5184 HSE’s docks health and safety website has been revamped to focus information and advice on the key risks in the industry - vehicles, falls from height, lifting and carrying and slips and trips.

HSE docks health and safety website

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/31/docks-website-re-launched/feed/ HSE letter in response to Max Hastings’s article http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/31/hse-letter-in-response-to-max-hastingss-article/?rss= Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:12:25 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5192 Geoffrey Podger, Health and Safety Executive, Chief Executive, responds to an article in the Daily Mail 29 December 2008 ‘ Children banned from carrying candles…’

Read HSE Chief Executive’s response

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/31/hse-letter-in-response-to-max-hastingss-article/feed/ Construction e-Bulletin: sign up today! http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/31/construction-e-bulletin-sign-up-today/?rss= Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:17:36 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5185 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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]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/31/construction-e-bulletin-sign-up-today/feed/ Statistics: dangers in agriculture http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/30/statistics-dangers-in-agriculture/?rss= Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:32:30 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5176 Agriculture remains one of Britain’s most dangerous industries, according to the latest agricultural statistics report published by HSE.

Press release - agriculture statistics report

 

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/30/statistics-dangers-in-agriculture/feed/ New diversity website launched http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/30/new-diversity-website-launched/?rss= Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:17:58 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5183 HSE is committed to protecting workplace health, safety and welfare for everyone, whatever their background. HSE’s Diversity website contains information and toolkits to help, by providing advice, guidance and best practice.

HSE diversity website

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/30/new-diversity-website-launched/feed/ RR681 - Accidents in the transport industry http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/30/rr681-accidents-in-the-transport-industry/?rss= Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:43:35 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5190 The transport industry has for some time been acknowledged as a relatively dangerous industry. One of the key hazards within the transport sector is posed by loads shifting in transit and then falling from vehicles, causing injuries and/or fatalities.

Read research report 681 - Accidents in the transport industry

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/30/rr681-accidents-in-the-transport-industry/feed/ New HSE Strategy - Have Your Say! http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/30/new-hse-strategy-have-your-say/?rss= Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:07:00 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5182 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

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/30/new-hse-strategy-have-your-say/feed/ Violence in pubs and clubs - after the event http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/29/violence-in-pubs-and-clubs-after-the-event/?rss= Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:00:23 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5181 HSE’s violence toolkit provides a simple online step by step guide to providing support to workers after a violent incident at work in licensed and retail premises.

Violence toolkit

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/29/violence-in-pubs-and-clubs-after-the-event/feed/ HSE announces new operations Director http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/29/hse-announces-new-operations-director/?rss= Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:26:57 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5187 HSE Chief Executive, Geoffrey Podger, said: “I am delighted that David Ashton is taking up this post”. His initial grounding as an inspector, means that he is well placed to make a successful and significant contribution to HSE’s work.

Press release - new field operations director

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/29/hse-announces-new-operations-director/feed/ Opportunities to Have Your Say! http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/29/opportunities-to-have-your-say/?rss= Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:35:45 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5186 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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]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/29/opportunities-to-have-your-say/feed/ Taylor Woodrow prosecution highlights construction dangers http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/24/taylor-woodrow-prosecution-highlights-construction-dangers/?rss= Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:01:57 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5174 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

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/24/taylor-woodrow-prosecution-highlights-construction-dangers/feed/ Introducing Partnership News - the new LAU News http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/24/introducing-partnership-news-the-new-lau-news/?rss= Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:30:32 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5179 LAU Newsletter has been replaced by Partnership News. Now you can read about the latest health and safety developments affecting local authorities as they happen or in weekly or monthly digests. And, it’s all free of charge!

Visit Partnership News

 

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/24/introducing-partnership-news-the-new-lau-news/feed/ HSE Podcast - new episode http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/24/hse-podcast-new-episode/?rss= Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:10:34 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5177 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

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/24/hse-podcast-new-episode/feed/ New example risk assessment http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/23/new-example-risk-assessment/?rss= Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:51:59 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5180 A new free example risk assessment for factory maintenance is now available to view or download.

Factory maintenance example risk assessment

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/23/new-example-risk-assessment/feed/ Business leaders and Directors: “take advantage” http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/23/construction-directors-take-advantage/?rss= Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:58:27 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5175 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

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/23/construction-directors-take-advantage/feed/ Warning to fairground operators after prosecution http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/23/warning-to-fairground-operators-after-prosecution/?rss= Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:47:24 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5173 HSE demanded that fairground operators protect the public by ensuring that their staff are properly trained and supervised. The call follows the prosecution of Oakwood Leisure Ltd for an incident, which resulted in the death of 16-year old Hayley Williams. 

Press release - fairground prosecution

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/23/warning-to-fairground-operators-after-prosecution/feed/ REACH eBulletin - out now http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/22/reach-ebulletin-out-now/?rss= Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:19:12 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5178 Sign up to the free REACH chemicals e-Bulletin and join more than 6,000 other subscribers who receive the latest submission deadlines, news and updates from the HSE by email.

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]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/22/reach-ebulletin-out-now/feed/ Print services - HSE contract opportunity http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/22/print-services-hse-contract-opportunity/?rss= Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:41:01 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5171 HSE will be placing framework agreements with a number of service providers for the provision of a range of printing services, set out in ‘Lots’.

Apply for a printing service framework agreement

]]> http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/22/print-services-hse-contract-opportunity/feed/ Genetically modified organisms register http://news.hse.gov.uk/2008/12/22/genetically-modified-organisms-register/?rss= Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:35:39 +0000 HSE http://news.hse.gov.uk/?p=5155 The Public Register of Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been updated - notifications of contained use of GMOs.

View the GMO register

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