 As an employer, you must protect your workers from the risks of manual handling injuries in the workplace. You can find help with preventing these sort of risks in your workplace on our manual handling website pages. There is a range of information and advice for employers, including sections on assessing manual handling and training for workers. You can also find links to a variety of useful resources. These include our free-to-download publications: |
The company has been fined more than 250,000 after 2 of its workers were seriously injured during separate incidents. Both workers had to undergo amputations following the incidents, which were described by HSE's inspector as 'serious and avoidable'. It was found that the company did not: - guard the machinery
- implement suitable and sufficient procedures to isolate machinery from power
Read this press release for full details on the incidents. HSE also has relevant guidance on on equipment and machinery safety. Other recent prosecutions include: HSE's latest campaign highlights advice for working safely with livestock, as well as simple vehicle safety tips, to help keep everyone on the farm safe. The latest figures show that 27 people were killed as a result of farming and other agriculture-related activities during 2022/23. Through our Work Right Agriculture. Your farm. Your future campaign, we are supporting farmers to work safely to prevent injuries. We have advice for anyone working in agriculture to show that safety on the farm doesnt need to be difficult or expensive. You can:  20 March 2024, 2.00pm HSE will be presenting a free, hour-long, knowledge-sharing webinar on managing and controlling work-related stress focused on public services. In the webinar you will hear from experts about: - the HSE stress Management Standards
- how to approach a stress risk assessment
- how the HSE Stress Indicator Tool (SIT) could help your organisation
- other useful resources
The latest benchmarking data and case studies will be also shared, while there will be a live Q and A where you can ask our panel of experts any questions. Register for the webinar |
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