Slips and trips have caused the highest number of major injuries in UK workplaces for many years. Despite this topic
Category: Falls from height
Slips and Trips eBulletin
Latest eBulletin from the Slips and Trips team, this edition: new Shattered Lives TV fillers short demonstrations of typical accidents
Health and safety at work: Best practice and partnerships
June 17 2009, London. The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) will bring together experts in its field, to learn about some recent health and safety projects.
Health and safety in waste management
‘Don’t recycle bad practice’, April 29 2009, Berkshire. RoSPA is holding a one-day event to to explore recent developments in the waste management sector.
Slips, trips and falls warning after chocolate maker fined
HSE is warning employers to ensure that their workplaces are safe, following the prosecution of Derbyshire-based Thorntons Plc
Shattered Lives survey
As part of the evaluation of ‘Shattered Lives’ we would like to know more about visitors to the campaign webpages.
Cleaning industry newsletter
The Spring 2009 edition is now available of the Cleaning Industry Liaison Forum newsletter. Issue 4 covers, the Shattered lives 2009 campaign,
HSE Podcast - March episode
Audio broadcasts from HSE. This episode: Dr. Sayeed Khan talks about worker employer relationships and occupational stress, and highlights the benefits of the new HSE Stress at work site.
Shattered Lives - TV fillers
Shattered Lives has been dubbed one of HSE’s most powerful and effective national campaigns to date
Shattered Lives - Healthcare
Every month over a thousand people suffer serious injuries as a result of slips, trips or falls in the workplace.
HSE newsletter - out now
Bi-monthly subscription magazine. Latest issue: includes a free sample Slips and Trips e-tool DVD, features on
Slips, trips and falls are no joke
61 people died and more than 14,000 suffered serious slip, trip or fall injuries in British workplaces last year.
Swansea man fined £10,000 after worker injured in fall
HSE is warning the construction industry of the dangers of working at height.
Shattered Lives 2009 - starts 9 February
Following the success of the 2008 campaign, Shattered Lives 2009 raises awareness of workplace slips, trips and falls
Construction industry warning after serious fall
The Health and Safety Executive has warned the construction industry of the need to ensure that work
Docks website re-launched
HSE’s docks health and safety website has been revamped to focus information and advice on the key risks
Working on roofs - INDG284
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%
Working at height warning after man dies
HSE is warning of the importance of carrying out risk assessments and implementing safe systems for working at height
Two companies fined following fatal accident
Construction companies were today warned by the HSE to keep health and safety under constant review throughout the life of a project.
Shopfitters fined £20,000 after man falls from tower scaffold
HSE is warning shopfitters to have correctly assembled mobile tower scaffolds after a worker fell three metres from unprotected scaffolding at a new shopping centre,

