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HSE ebulletin

Issued: 14 April 2023

 

This ebulletin includes updates and information on health and safety at work.

Protect your workers from violence and aggression

Violence and aggression at work can have a serious impact on your workers physical and mental health.    HSE has refreshed its guidance on violence at work to help you protect your workers. It has been updated to: simplify the navigation to help you easily find the information you need remove outdated content and replace it with up-to-date practical guidance remind you that HSE’s definition of violence includes aggression, such as verbal abuse or threats – this can be face to face, online or over the phone The guidance will help you assess the risks, put the right controls in place to protect workers and report incidents and learn from them.     We have specific guidance on how to support your workers after a violent incident. There are also examples drawn from typical situations.   We have separate advice for workers, which explains how they can help employers prevent violent incidents at work.

The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 have now come into force

The new laws related to the transmission and distribution of gas in Great Britain came into force on 6 April 2023.

This follows a government review of gas quality regulation and a public consultation on changes to the Gas Safety (Management) Regulations 1996.

 

Find out more information on the changes:

• The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
• GSMAR consultation 
• GSMAR consultation response (.PDF)
• GSMAR impact assessment 

HSE launches 2023 Annual Science Review

The 2023 Annual Science Review focuses on HSE's activities enabling the safe deployment of net zero energy technologies.

Download the 2023 Annual Science Review where you can learn more about the difference HSE makes through our commitment to science.

 

The review contains case studies illustrating how HSE uses science and evidence to protect people and places, helping everyone lead safer and healthier lives. Read the press release.

 

Join our launch seminar to hear from HSE’s scientists and engineers as they present 5 minute ‘Turbo Talks’ on their work featured in this year’s review:

 

Register for the free ‘Turbo Talks’ science review seminar

Thursday 20 April, 1.00 – 1.50pm via Microsoft Teams

Asbestos & You: free webinar

Join our asbestos campaign webinar, chaired by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), where we discuss the risks that continue to be associated with asbestos for tradespeople. 

HSE’s Asbestos & You campaign is urging tradespeople to protect themselves from exposure to lethal asbestos fibres during their work. Figures show that 5,000 people a year still die from asbestos-related diseases in the UK and we know that asbestos remains in millions of homes and buildings today.

 

Register for the webinar: Lurking in the shadows – the truth about asbestos

Tuesday 18 April, 2.00pm via Zoom