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The article presents news items related to occupational health in Great Britain. Great Britain's Health and Safety Executive has issued a warning to British employers to make sure they have adequate safeguards in place to prevent access to dangerous parts of their machinery. A British farm called Kelloe Mains Farm was fined fined £6,650 after one of its employees died in a quad bike crash in June 2007.

The article reports on issues and events related to occupational health and safety in Great Britain as of March 2006. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will be holding a conference on best practice in rehabilitation and sickness absence management in manufacturing on March 9 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. HSE has launched its Watch your Step accident prevention campaign. Egg carton manufacturer Omni-Pac has been fined for failure to maintain asbestos-made materials on its site.

The article reports on the efforts of the Health & Safety Executive in Great Britain, to seek for public comments as it revises its enforcement policy. It is noted that the agency is striving to make the policy clearer on when and how the agency and local authorities prosecute safety and health offenses. The current policy aims to reduce lost work days by 30 percent and decrease fatal and serious injury occupational incidents by 10 percent.

The article reports that British Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector Matt Greenly found multiple safety failings after passing by a construction site in Kirkby, England and seeing a young boy with his father, a construction worker, on a scaffold, on February 20, 2013. Greenly says the ladder and scaffold were not secure, handrails were missing, and boards to prevent tools from falling to the ground were absent. He says the builder put his own life at risk, as well as his son's.

The article reports on the partnership agreement signed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) with the Engineering Employers Federation which is aimed at reducing accidents within the manufacturing sector in Great Britain. The agreement will ensure that all manufacturing companies will have access to health and safety advice and information. Other agreements involved by HSE are also included in the article.

This article reports that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is to launch an enforcement drive on the manufacturing sector in Great Britain to reduce the high number of fatal and serious injuries that occur within the industry. The HSE campaign will see HSE inspectors targeting firms over the next three years to ensure that correct safety procedures are in place for those working with machinery.