HSE is proud to publish this year's review which focuses on ways our science and evidence is being used to protect people and places, helping everyone lead safer and healthier lives.
Download the review at this link and learn more about the difference HSE makes through our commitment to science.
The review illustrates the mix of activities that has helped to ensure that HSE’s response to the pandemic be informed by the best available evidence. In addition it has also provided information that could help our organisation build back better in those areas where evidence was needed to help us be an enabling regulator, and secure justice against those who breach the law. This includes:
- Reducing work-related ill health: Investigation of COVID-19 in the workplace – outbreaks, mitigation measures, transmission - incorporating work from HSE’s leadership of ‘PROTECT’ (one of the UK’s National Core studies for COVID)
- Building Safety: Preliminary identification of potential serious incident scenarios for high-rise buildings
- Enabling industry to innovate safely: supporting the move towards net zero by supporting and enabling a safe transition to hydrogen in the existing gas network
The review also highlights the range of studies HSE scientists are working on to protect people and places by managing workplace health and safety risks and helping to maintaining Great Britain’s record as one of the safest countries to work in. Including:
- Chemical regulation, enabling the safe and sustainable use of chemicals: Assessing the toxicity, hazards and risks of chemicals in order to protect human health, and new methods to monitor occupational exposure to chemicals
- Providing evidence to underpin effective working practices in the asbestos removal industry
Case studies also show how we bring people and organisations together, sharing knowledge, expertise and data, we make a real impact on reducing death, ill health and injury. Including:
- A multi-centre European human biomonitoring study
- The future of health and safety in advanced manufacturing
- Developing a framework for socio-economic impact data management in India
Read this press release for more about the review
Join us on Wednesday 22 June at 1.00 - 1.45pm.
Don’t miss your chance to join us for a lunchtime seminar event to hear a series of ‘lightning’ talks in which our scientists and engineers will briefly introduce you to their work on:
- COVID-19
- Supporting and enabling a safe transition to hydrogen in the gas network
- Building safety
- The Biopesticide Network
- Asbestos exposures
The event will be held on Wednesday 22 June, 1.00 - 1.45pm, on Microsoft Teams.
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