Gas Safety Week aims to raise awareness of practical gas safety advice for homeowners and the importance of taking care of your gas appliances. Badly fitted and poorly serviced gas appliances can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning. By taking care of your gas appliances properly you are taking care of your [...]
Category: Campaign
Asbestos case study – Electricians’ stories: Mick Adkins
Friday, June 17, 2011
The widow of a popular Birmingham musician has told how her husband’s life was cut short by a brush with Britain’s biggest industrial killer. Mick Adkins, the singer and lead guitarist of 1960s Brumbeat band The Chads, died in June 2007 after contracting mesothelioma while working as an electrical apprentice in the late 1950s and [...]
Agriculture video case study – Farmers’ stories: transport
Monday, June 13, 2011
Twenty one year old Andrew Pursey was crushed to death between two tractors while working on the family farm in Herefordshire.
Don’t DIY with gas – Always use a Gas Safe registered engineer
Friday, May 27, 2011
Remember when planning home improvements, DIY gas work won’t save you money – it could cost your life. Don’t try to fit, fix or move gas appliances such as a boiler or cooker – use a Gas Safe registered engineer who has the right skills to carry this work out safely.
Changing the habits of a lifetime
Friday, April 8, 2011
The British Safety Council has launched a health and safety campaign aimed at businesses – phase one focuses on hand and arm protection.
Better gas safe than sorry – Advice for elderly people
Monday, March 14, 2011
Let’s talk gas safety. Understand how to be gas safe at home – only use a gas safe registered engineer and always check the gas safe ID card. It is important to make sure that your central heating boiler and all of your gas appliances are working properly.
Make the promise website updated
Thursday, March 3, 2011
The campaign wesbite has been updated to cater for a broader audience of farmers in addition to adding two new case studies.
New farmers’ stories – William Russell
Monday, December 6, 2010
Wullie Russell had returned home on a high after a fantastic holiday in New Zealand. Little did he realise that just four weeks later he’d be fighting for his life.
Better Gas Safe than sorry – real people’s video stories
Friday, October 29, 2010
Dangerous gas work can be deadly. Hear Anne’s story to understand the devastating consequences of using an illegal gas fitter.
Double-award win for HSE’s ‘Make the promise’ agriculture campaign
Monday, October 25, 2010
An HSE campaign aimed at reducing the disproportionately high rate of death and injuries in agriculture has picked up two prizes at the PR Week Awards, considered to be the ‘Oscars’ of the PR world.
Healthy Workplaces European Campaign on Safe Maintenance 2010 – 2011
Monday, October 25, 2010
During 2010-2011, HSE is helping promote safe and healthy workplaces by encouraging an integrated and structured approach to maintenance.
European safe maintenance campaign – events nationwide
Thursday, October 14, 2010
EEF is holding events on Safe Maintenance at sites across Great Britain, in conjunction with HSE and the TUC.
Better Gas Safe than sorry – Only use a Gas Safe registered engineer
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Anyone employed to work on gas appliances in domestic premises must be Gas Safe registered and competent in that area of gas work.
Speak Up, Stay Safe BSC campaign – young people at work
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
A new campaign from the British Safety Council asks young people to take responsibility for their own health and safety.
EEF / HSE / TUC / EU Safe Maintenance events
Thursday, September 9, 2010
EEF is holding events on Safe Maintenance at sites across Great Britain, in conjunction with HSE and the TUC.
Speak Up, Stay Safe – British Safety Council campaign
Monday, September 6, 2010
A new campaign from the British Safety Council asks young people to take responsibility for their own health and safety.
Students will you wake up? – gas safety in rented accomodation
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Last year 15 people died and 234 suffered major injuries from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Don’t become a statistic; there are things you can do to keep yourself safe.
Agriculture: Make the Promise – Ian Davey’s story
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Cornish farmer, Ian Davey, nearly left behind a loving wife and two children – a boy of nearly three and a girl of six months – when a snap decision he made during combining had horrific consequences.
European Campaign – Safe maintenance details
Friday, August 6, 2010
HSE, in partnership with the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), the EEF and the TUC, launched the UK’s involvement in the Healthy Workplaces European Campaign on Safe Maintenance in London on 21 June 2010.
Agriculture: Make the Promise – Andrew Pursey’s story
Monday, August 2, 2010
Twenty one year old Andrew Pursey was crushed to death between two tractors while working on the family farm in Herefordshire.
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