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The article looks at how safety is embedded across the centres of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult set up by the British government to foster growth and success in the advanced manufacturing sector. Topics mentioned include the seven catapults originally established by the government including cell therapy, future cities, and transport systems, thoughts from Health and Safety Executive Chairman Judith Hackitt on safety considerations, and some of the drawbacks of industrial robots.

The article offers the insights of former chair Judith Hackitt of Health and Safety Executive of Great Britain (HSE) on the success and regrets of her leadership in the department. Topics mentioned include the material difference of the talk of companies about health and safety, the success in the 2012 London Olympics, and the regrets on having too many consultants which the Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register has failed to manage.

The article reports that Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has teamed up with Lloyd's Register Foundation to develop new techniques aimed at sifting through safety data to help better share the lessons learned, including industrial accidents.

The article focuses at Fee for Intervention (FFI) scheme introduced by Health and Safety Executive of Great Britain for industries is a contravention of health and safety law, or material breach, is discovered during inspections. It states that introduction of FFI was met with concern by industry as organizations feared that it would be used to generate revenue through corruption. It mentions that FFI provides an incentive to improve health and safety management and consistent application.

In this article, the author discusses views of Tony Rocheford, member of Great Britain's Institution of Occupational Safety and Health' s (IOSH) Caribbean branch, on health and safety progress of the Institution during the IOSH's Conference in Caribbean in February 2015. He reflects on stress generated in job environment and job situations, new international health standards used by health professionals in Caribbean and Branch's efforts to provide training on safety issues.

The article discusses a court case Poly flor Ltd v Health and Safety Executive presented at the Court of Appeal of Great Britain where Polyflor's technical support engineer broke his arm while undertaking a maintenance work on a conveyor belt. The Court of Appeal found that the accident was caused by the foolish act of the employee but still regarded existence of a risk created by the employer. It informs that Polyflor was also prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive.

The article reports that Mark Hayes, the owner of a Kent scaffolding business, has been sentenced to jail for 15 years for failing safety standards after a scaffolder fell from the tower scaffold while working on sustaining fatal injuries. It informs that Hayes was jailed after he failed to provide legal documents relating to his management of work at heights including a earlier notice by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for providing legal documents.