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The article reports on vehicle workshop and workplace safety in Great Britain. Employers' organizations can help plan vehicle workshops. The RHA offers risk assessment service to members, for example visiting workshops and making recommendations. Key responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act as well as accident statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are provided.

This article discusses several rules and options concerning high-visibility (HV) clothing. As with all personal protective equipment (PPE), there are many factors to be taken into account to make sure the correct HV clothing is chosen for a particular task. According to the PPE at Work Regulations 1992 from Great Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the choice of clothing should take into account ambient and artificial lighting conditions at the workplace. HV clothing must provide adequate protection during the day and at night.

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 presents an overview of a health and safety strategy for British employers and employees that was released in June of 2009 by Great Britain's Health and Safety Executive. In the strategy the executive called for British employers to become more involved with occupational health and safety issues and to start considering them as important issues in the workplace.

The article reports on the plan of Great Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to unveil a new strategy for workplace health and safety in Great Britain in December 2008 at the same time as calls are growing for a major overhaul of how the body operates and regulates businesses. The decision was revealed by Health and Safety Executive (HSE) chair Judith Hackitt at a conference in September 2008 run by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.

Reports on the aim of Great Britain to progress in tackling occupational health issues among employers to keep its position as one of the world leaders in workplace health and safety according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Problem with the financial penalties imposed on health and safety offenders; Decline in the average fine for health and safety offenses; Comment of Timothy Walker, HSE director general, on the lack of change to reflect the seriousness of health and safety cases.

The article provides information on the safety campaign by the Health & Safety Executive of Great Britain to minimize the risk of injuries in the transport industry. Workplace must be organised so that employees can circulate safely around it and every workplace traffic route must be constructed so that it is fit for purpose. Consideration of hazards must therefore be given to each access and egress point on the vehicle, along with areas on the vehicle that the employee will move around, usually the chassis and the immediate vicinity of the vehicle.

An interview with Rich Brunt, head of agriculture at Great Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE), is presented. Brunt discusses the challenges they are facing in their efforts to lower the accident rate in the agriculture industry, as well as the main concentration of their work at HSE. Also mentioned are their Farm Safety Partnerships program, their strategy that is linked to themes like leadership and competence and their recommendation on dealing with an unsafe workplace.

The article reports that Great Britain Health and Safety Executive (HSE) plans to impose a "fee for intervention (FFI)" on firms that fail to ensure their workplaces are safe for workers. The penalty will be for cost recovery when it is required to intervene for health and safety reasons. These changes place a duty on the HSE to recover its costs for carrying out its regulatory functions from those found to be in material breach of health and safety law.

The article reports that the British Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is calling for better training for drivers and operators to reduce the increasing number of deaths caused by workplace transport. Vehicles used in the country's construction industry workplaces cause an average of 70 deaths and 1,000 injuries a year. Based on a report commissioned by the HSE, it revealed that there is a high level of firms that did not provide any training for their operators.

The article reports that the British Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been reminding engineering firms concerning public safety and measures in their factories. Agency inspector Kevin Wilson proposes to eliminate or reduce contact of vehicles and pedestrian by providing physical barriers. Several incidents of injuries have been reported due to insufficient systems in the workplace.