HSE Chair Judith Hackitt responds to an article in the Daily Telegraph.
Category: Young people
Child in tractor / trailer accident
At 1649hrs on Monday 25th May, Health and Safety Executive were alerted to an incident that had taken place at Avon Valley Country Park, near Bristol.
Minster College incident
We currently have inspectors on site including a specialist construction engineering inspector.
Fairground fatality
HSE is carrying out an investigation following the death of a child on a fairground ride in London.
Music festivals and outdoor events
Sound Advice contains practical noise management advice, representatives of music and entertainment industries together
Company directors warned following death of a joinery apprentice
HSE has warned company directors of their personal duty to protect their employees
Myth: Health and safety rules take the adventure out of playgrounds
We’re all for playgrounds being exciting and challenging places. Children should have fun in them, get fit, develop
Shattered Lives campaign continues
Every month people suffer serious injuries as a result of slips, trips or falls in education. Find out what you can do
HSE demands firms take safety seriously after teenager injured
HSE warns of the importance of using safe working procedures when cleaning printing machinery.
Flash-bang science back in the classroom
School science teachers are urged to stop using a fear of breaking health and safety rules to re-introduce
Noise - schools and colleges
Practical advice on the control of noise at work in schools and colleges, split into three distinct areas covering:
RR661 - Parental occupational chemical exposures and childhood cancer
The risk of childhood cancer has been inconsistently linked with parental exposure to occupational agents,
Myth of the month - December 2008
Dispelling the health and safety myth: Children are banned from throwing snowballs.
Young tradespeople alerted to asbestos risk
Trainee apprentices from around the West Midlands received a stark warning from the Health and
Swimming pool banned from using floats - response
David Snowball, HSE Yorkshire and the North East Regional Director responds to an article in The
Myth of the month - November 2008
Myth: Children need to be wrapped in cotton wool to keep them safe.
RoSPA: Young drivers at work project
Please help The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) with their research study into the safety issues surrounding young drivers
Preventing accidents to children on farm: revised version
Agriculture has one of the highest fatal injury rates of any industry in Great Britain, but is the only high-risk industry that has to deal with the constant presence of children.
Preventing accidents to children on farms: Welsh version
Agriculture has one of the highest fatal injury rates of any industry in Great Britain, but is the only high-risk industry that has to deal with the constant presence of children.

