The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) today urged people to focus on real risks, that is those that cause real harm and suffering – and stop concentrating effort on trivial risks and petty health and safety..
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Category: Risk
“Get a life”, says HSC - C021:06
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Principles of sensible risk management
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
HSE launches some sensible risk managment principles on the Risk Management web pages.
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RR448 - Complex and contentious risk based decision-making in the field of health, safety and the environment Comparative analysis of two UK examples
Friday, July 21, 2006
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has a track record of being at the forefront of developments in risk governance; it has adjusted its approach to regulation in order to ensure that it fulfils its regulatory mandate in a way that is responsive to evolving societal expectations.
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RR476 An evaluation of the five steps to risk assessment
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
This report, which presents an evaluation of the impact of HSE’s Five Steps to Risk Assessment leaflet as well the Five Steps approach more generally, is based on survey and case study research on risk assessment behaviour in establishments across Great Britain. The main aims of the research were to assess the:
(a) take-up of the [...]
Five steps to risk assessment leaflet (INDG163) revised
Thursday, July 13, 2006
The law does not expect you to eliminate all risk, but you are required to protect people as far as ‘reasonably practicable’. This guide tells you how to achieve that with a minimum of fuss. Helping you assess health and safety risks in the workplace.
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E074:06 11 July 2006 - HSE publishes revamped guidance to simplify risk assessments
Thursday, July 13, 2006
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today urged businesses to spend less time dotting ‘i’s and crossing ‘t’s and more time on putting practical actions into effect. To help companies do this HSE has issued a revamped risk assessment guide featuring examples that spell out, in plain English, what is – and what is not [...]
Risk management website updated
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Risk Management involves you, the employer, looking at the risks that arise in the workplace and then putting sensible health and safety measures in place to control them. By doing this you can protect your most valuable asset, your employees, as well as members of the public from harm.
Visit the updated risk management website
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