Health and Safety Executive

Category: Falls from height

Follow up to Shattered Lives Campaign

Monday, March 23, 2009

Slips and trips have caused the highest number of major injuries in UK workplaces for many years. Despite this topic

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Slips and Trips eBulletin

Friday, March 20, 2009

Latest eBulletin from the Slips and Trips team, this edition: new Shattered Lives TV fillers short demonstrations of typical accidents

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Health and safety at work: Best practice and partnerships

Friday, March 20, 2009

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.

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Health and safety in waste management

Thursday, March 19, 2009

‘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.

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Slips, trips and falls warning after chocolate maker fined

Monday, March 16, 2009

HSE is warning employers to ensure that their workplaces are safe, following the prosecution of Derbyshire-based Thorntons Plc

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Shattered Lives survey

Thursday, March 12, 2009

As part of the evaluation of ‘Shattered Lives’ we would like to know more about visitors to the campaign webpages.

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Cleaning industry newsletter

Monday, March 9, 2009

The Spring 2009 edition is now available of the Cleaning Industry Liaison Forum newsletter. Issue 4 covers, the Shattered lives 2009 campaign,

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HSE Podcast - March episode

Friday, March 6, 2009

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.

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Shattered Lives - TV fillers

Friday, March 6, 2009

Shattered Lives has been dubbed one of HSE’s most powerful and effective national campaigns to date

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Shattered Lives - Healthcare

Friday, February 20, 2009

Every month over a thousand people suffer serious injuries as a result of slips, trips or falls in the workplace.

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HSE newsletter - out now

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Bi-monthly subscription magazine. Latest issue: includes a free sample Slips and Trips e-tool DVD, features on

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Slips, trips and falls are no joke

Monday, February 9, 2009

61 people died and more than 14,000 suffered serious slip, trip or fall injuries in British workplaces last year.

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Swansea man fined £10,000 after worker injured in fall

Thursday, January 29, 2009

HSE is warning the construction industry of the dangers of working at height.

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Shattered Lives 2009 - starts 9 February

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Following the success of the 2008 campaign, Shattered Lives 2009 raises awareness of workplace slips, trips and falls

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Construction industry warning after serious fall

Thursday, January 8, 2009

The Health and Safety Executive has warned the construction industry of the need to ensure that work

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Docks website re-launched

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

HSE’s docks health and safety website has been revamped to focus information and advice on the key risks

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Working on roofs - INDG284

Thursday, December 11, 2008

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%

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Working at height warning after man dies

Monday, November 24, 2008

HSE is warning of the importance of carrying out risk assessments and implementing safe systems for working at height

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Two companies fined following fatal accident

Friday, November 21, 2008

Construction companies were today  warned by the HSE to keep health and safety under  constant review throughout the life of a project.

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Shopfitters fined £20,000 after man falls from tower scaffold

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

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,

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