Health and Safety Executive

Category: Safety alerts

Safety alerts will alert you to safety issues related to health and safety in the workplace

Safety alerts relevant to the manufacturing sector

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Safety alerts can now be accessed from the manufacturing portal of the HSE website.

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Skid steer loader safety alert

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

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.

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Molten metal explosions safety alert translations

Thursday, March 12, 2009

The molten metal explosions safety alert ” Risk from molten metal explosion due to water contamination” is now also available in additional languages

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Molten metal explosions - safety alert

Friday, February 13, 2009

HSE has issued a safety alert to industry after a Polish worker died from multiple organ failure after suffering 80% burns caused by a molten metal explosion

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Operation of auger feed devices

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Guidance circular for HSE staff following a recent serious accident which occurred while an operator was working on a

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Safety alert - Operation of auger feed devices

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The Health and Safety Executive was recently informed of a serious accident which occurred while an

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Offshore safety alert: Flare system impaired by cooling water loss

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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,

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HSE issues safety alert on gas appliance flues in ceiling voids

Friday, October 3, 2008

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.

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Safety Alert: Gas boilers - flues in voids

Friday, October 3, 2008

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.

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Asbestos in system buildings - duty holder checklist

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

A checklist for duty holders assessing the risks from asbestos in some school buildings.

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Safety alert - Restricted pipe movement in cryogenic tanks

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

HSE investigations into the brittle fracture of the outer jacket of a 60 000 litre liquid nitrogen tank

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Letter on safety alerts sent to local authorities

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The letter introduced and provided brief background to the two HSE safety alerts on (i) scalding risks from domestic hot

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Safety alert for the printing industry

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

For the attention of firms in the printing and cardboard packaging industries. This is to raise

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HSE Safety Alert: Explosion risk from redundant domestic back boilers

Monday, May 12, 2008

HSE has issued a safety alert aimed at homeowners, tenants, landlords and heating professionals following five incidents

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Risks from redundant solid fuel back boilers

Monday, May 12, 2008

HSE has issued a safety alert aimed at homeowners, tenants, landlords and heating professionals following five incidents

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HSE warns: take suitable risk assessments after two workers die

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

The warning follows HSE’s prosecution of two companies after two employees died in separate incidents while

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Safety Alert to operators of “COMAH” oil/fuel storage sites & others storing hazardous substances in large tanks

Friday, February 8, 2008

A dangerous incident occurred at a facility storing urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) fertiliser in solution.

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Construction safety alert - quick hitch devices

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

HSE is issuing a safety alert to users of excavators fitted with quick hitch devices. There have been a number of serious

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Safety warning HACA fixed rail vertical fall arrest system update

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

An error has been recently found in the transfer of information on to the tables in this report and corrected.

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Safety warning: HACA fixed rail vertical fall arrest system

Monday, October 1, 2007

The fixed rail vertical fall arrest system type 0529.7102 manufactured by HACA Leitern has

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