Health
and Safety Executive
The Health and
Safety Executive ensure that risks to people's health and safety from
work activities are properly controlled. The HSE is interested in the
health and safety of people at work - that includes people who may be
harmed by the way work is done (for example because they live near a
factory, or are passengers on a train). In some situations, the HSE is
also concerned with the way work affects the environment.
The HSC develops new health and safety laws and standards, and play a
full part in international developments, especially in the European
Union and:
- inspect
workplaces;
- investigate
accidents and cases of ill health;
- enforce good
standards, usually by advising people how to comply with the law, but
sometimes by ordering them to make improvements and, if necessary, by
prosecuting them;
- publish guidance
and advice;
- provide an
information service;
- carry out
research;
- carry out
various activities such as nuclear site licensing and accepting off
shore installation safety cases.
|