Health and Safety Executive

Category: Safety alerts

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

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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Scalding risk from domestic hot water systems

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a safety alert aimed at homeowners,

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Scalding risk from domestic hot water systems

Thursday, July 12, 2007

A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) safety alert has been issued following a second fatal injury caused

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Safety alert: Wishbone hookbars

Friday, June 29, 2007

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently investigated the failure of a wishbone hookbar of a type

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Rupture of a crude oil storage tank

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

This safety alert is drawn up to spread the lessons learnt from the major oil release of

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High tensile bolt connections on tower cranes

Friday, January 26, 2007

Technical alert about the importance of the correct installation of high tensile bolt connections on tower

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Safety alert on the use of tower cranes

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Safety alert to the construction industry to remind those working on projects where tower

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Buncefield Joint Task group calls for immediate action

Thursday, October 12, 2006

A joint Industry and COMAH Competent Authority (CA) Task Group today called for

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HSE issues further safety alert to fuel depot operators

Tuesday, July 4, 2006

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today issued a Safety Alert to operators of COMAH

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Safety alert to operators of COMAH oil/fuel storage sites

Tuesday, July 4, 2006

This Safety Alert is primarily for the attention of those companies operating oil/fuel

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Initial report on the findings of the Oil/Fuel Depot Safety Alert Review

Monday, June 12, 2006

This review presents the findings from an alert which asked operators to provide

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