Protect the health and safety of workers in your organisation.
Effective health and safety performance comes from the top. Protecting your workers or members of the public is an essential part of risk management and must be led by the board.
Our leadership of health and safety at work webpages can help you find the best way to lead and promote health and safety at work. It provides information and guidance on a range of leadership topics, including:
Leadership excellence training from HSE
Our training course NEBOSH HSE certificate in health and safety leadership excellence shows how leaders can influence health and safety performance and culture through their actions and behaviours.
Upcoming dates include:
- 20 October, London
- 19 November, HSE Science and Research Centre, Buxton
- 8 December, Manchester
A fish processing company has been fined after health and safety failings led to a worker becoming entangled in a palletiser machine.
Called to clear a blockage, the forklift supervisor bypassed a safety guard, triggering a sensor to restart the palletiser machine, which then repeatedly struck them.
The worker spent 10 days in intensive care with injuries from the incident, including 2 punctured lungs and 8 fractured ribs.
HSE's investigation found that perimeter safety fencing around the machine, designed to isolate its power supply whenever the interlocking safety gate was opened, had become insecure after a panel was damaged.
Read more about the incident in our press release: £451,500 fine for company after worker suffered life-threatening injuries.
For more health and safety stories visit our news centre, including Six-figure fine for chemical company after multiple hazardous gas leaks.
Machinery safety: Compliance, management and emerging technologies
30 September, 10:30am to 11:30am.
Delivered by HSE experts, this webinar will explore how organisations can:
- effectively manage machinery risks
- ensure compliance with Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) and the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations
- confidently adopt new technologies while maintaining safe and reliable operations
All attendees will receive a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certificate.
Sign up to this free webinar: Machinery safety: Compliance, management and emerging technologies.
HSE is carrying out a post implementation review (PIR) of the Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (PPER 22).
PPER 22 extended employers’ and employees’ duties regarding personal protective equipment (PPE) to limb (b) workers.
We are gathering the views of businesses that engage limb (b) workers and those workers themselves to understand how the Regulations are working in practice and whether they continue to meet their intended objectives.
The surveys close at 11:59pm on 18 September 2026.
HSE monitors and enforces legal requirements on the safety of most products used in the workplace, including any risks to health.
We have a duty to notify the Secretary of State about:
- unsafe or non-compliant products
- the measures taken and communicated by an economic operator
Products recalled or notified to HSE's Product Safety and Market Surveillance Unit, with a serious or high risk to the users, are published on GOV.UK's product recalls and alerts webpage.
Recent products notified are:
Find out more on HSE's role as a market surveillance authority.
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