Safety alerts can now be accessed from the manufacturing portal of the HSE website.
Category: Safety alerts
Skid steer loader safety alert
The purpose of this safety alert is to alert employers and employees about a recent fatality where an operator was crushed by the lift arm of a skid-steer loader.
Operation of auger feed devices
Guidance circular for HSE staff following a recent serious accident which occurred while an operator was working on a
Safety alert - Operation of auger feed devices
The Health and Safety Executive was recently informed of a serious accident which occurred while an
Offshore safety alert: Flare system impaired by cooling water loss
This alert advises duty holders of an incident involving failure of a bursting disc on the shell side of a shell and tube heat exchanger,
HSE issues safety alert on gas appliance flues in ceiling voids
HSE has issued a safety alert aimed at builders and developers, managing agents, landlords and occupiers of residential properties with gas central heating boilers sited on internal walls.
Safety Alert: Gas boilers - flues in voids
HSE has issued a safety alert aimed at builders and developers, managing agents, landlords and occupiers of residential properties with gas central heating boilers sited on internal walls.
Asbestos in system buildings - duty holder checklist
A checklist for duty holders assessing the risks from asbestos in some school buildings.
Safety alert - Restricted pipe movement in cryogenic tanks
HSE investigations into the brittle fracture of the outer jacket of a 60 000 litre liquid nitrogen tank
Letter on safety alerts sent to local authorities
The letter introduced and provided brief background to the two HSE safety alerts on (i) scalding risks from domestic hot
Safety alert for the printing industry
For the attention of firms in the printing and cardboard packaging industries. This is to raise
HSE Safety Alert: Explosion risk from redundant domestic back boilers
HSE has issued a safety alert aimed at homeowners, tenants, landlords and heating professionals following five incidents
Risks from redundant solid fuel back boilers
HSE has issued a safety alert aimed at homeowners, tenants, landlords and heating professionals following five incidents
HSE warns: take suitable risk assessments after two workers die
The warning follows HSE’s prosecution of two companies after two employees died in separate incidents while
Safety Alert to operators of “COMAH” oil/fuel storage sites & others storing hazardous substances in large tanks
A dangerous incident occurred at a facility storing urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) fertiliser in solution.
Construction safety alert - quick hitch devices
HSE is issuing a safety alert to users of excavators fitted with quick hitch devices. There have been a number of serious
Safety warning HACA fixed rail vertical fall arrest system update
An error has been recently found in the transfer of information on to the tables in this report and corrected.
Safety warning: HACA fixed rail vertical fall arrest system
The fixed rail vertical fall arrest system type 0529.7102 manufactured by HACA Leitern has

