Latest News in Health, Safety & the Environment

The new version of ISO14001 remains on track to be published by September after the latest meeting of the group working on the revision. A recent global poll on the benefits of  ISO14001 revealed that users believe it brings significant value to their business by ensuring legal compliance (77%), boosting environmental performance (74%), and engaging managers (68%) and employees (62%). The...

Subject to Parliamentary approval, new Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) will come into force on 6 April 2015. HSE has published draft legal guidance before the Regulations come in to help anyone who has duties under the Regulations to prepare in advance. Please note the draft Regulations within the guidance have been amended following consultation. The Regulations and...

Three updated Approved Codes of Practice and Associated guidance have been published by the Health & Safety Executive. L122 – Safety of pressure systems: ACOP and guidance (2nd edition) The aim of PSSR is to prevent serious injury from the hazard of stored energy (pressure) as a result of the failure of a pressure system or one of its component parts. The revised PSSR ACOP...

 Proposed sentencing guidelines have recently been published which will assist sentencers dealing with corporate manslaughter, health and safety and food safety and hygiene offences. The draft guidelines, now subject to public consultation, cover offences that embrace a wide range of circumstances. The guidelines are being introduced due to a lack of comprehensive guidance for sentencers...

Figures recently published by the Health & Safety Executive show that Britain continues to be one of the safest places to work in Europe. However, many workers are still being injured or made ill by work. The injury and ill-health statistics released show that an estimated 28.2 million working days were lost due to work related ill health or injury in 2013/14. The latest statistics...

The Health and Safety Executive has launched a new safety campaign as an average of 20 tradespeople die every week from asbestos related diseases. 1.3 million tradespeople are deemed to be at risk from the dangers of asbestos. Tradespeople, including construction workers, carpenters and painters and decorators, could come into contact with deadly asbestos on average more than 100 times...