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Issued: 7 November 2024

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Stress Awareness Week: 4 to 8 November 2024

Many people still do not realise that it is a legal duty to include work-related stress in risk assessments.

You can help change that during stress awareness week by supporting HSE’s Working Minds campaign.

The campaign helps raise awareness that all employers are required by law to prevent work-related stress and support good mental health by doing a risk assessment and acting on it.  

You could: 

  • talk about it at your next one-to-one with a staff member
  • bring it up at a team meeting 

Company fined £80,000 as worker fractures skull

The fine was issued following an incident in which a worker was struck by a telehandler bucket on site.

The worker had been removing cattle from the back of a lorry when the telehandler bucket became detached and struck him.

In addition to a fractured skull, the worker also sustained a broken clavicle, a ripped earlobe and haematomas down his right side.

HSE's investigation found that the company had failed to implement a safe system of work for the use of quick hitches on the telehandler.

Read more in our press release: Company fined as employee fractures skull.

Our website has guidance on the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER).

You can visit our news centre for more on recent enforcement cases, which includes:


Reporting accidents and illness at work

Make sure you submit a Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) report for a workplace accident where necessary.

RIDDOR puts duties on employers, the self-employed and those in control of work premises to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences.

Our website has further information about RIDDOR, including details on:


Latest job vacancies at HSE

Join HSE to develop your career and help protect lives and livelihoods.

We currently have a range of vacancies, which include:

EH40/2005 Workplace exposure limits

HSE's publication will help those responsible for controlling exposure to hazardous substances at work.

You can download a free copy: EH40/2005 Workplace exposure limits.

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