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HSE: About the Health and Safety Executive

About HSE
HSE is the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness. We are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britains workplaces. Prosecution resulting from Buncefield explosion [1] How HSE helped me... [2] solution

HSE's strategy
The Health and Safety of Great Britain \\ [4] Be part of the

Inside HSE
How we work [5] How HSE is organised [6] Annual and other reports [7]

HSE's people

London 2012 Games

HSE's work
Enforcement [16] Legislation [17] Better regulation [18]

Chair of the HSE Board: Judith Hackitt The Health & Safety Executive is governed by the NonExecutive board and Senior Management Team. Find out more. [9] More about HSE's role [11] HSE was part of the team working to secure a safe and successful Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Science, engineering and research [19] Statistics [20] Field operations [21] Hazardous installations [22]

Careers
Latest vacancies and profiles [12]

Nuclear safety and security [23]

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Benefits of working for HSE [13] Apply online

[14]

More HSE careers [15]

Meetings
The HSE hold a range of regular meetings some of which are open to the public. Find out more. [25] Open meetings HSE Board Senior Management Team Advisory groups

Timeline

Working with...
Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL)
[28]

Timeline of major events in history relating to health and safety and HSE, highlighting milestones such as the formation of the Mines Inspectorate in 1843 to the launch of a new redesigned website in 2009.

Businesses [29] Workers [30] Safety representatives [31] Local Authorities [32] Chemicals Regulation Directorate
[33]

Adventure Activities (AALA) [34] Europe and worldwide [35]

Link URLs in this page

1. Prosecution resulting from Buncefield explosion http://www.hse.gov.uk/news/buncefield/index.htm 2. How HSE helped me... http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/inthepublicinterest/securingjustice.htm 3. Find out more about working in the public interest http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/inthepublicinterest/index.htm 4. The Health and Safety of Great Britain \\ http://www.hse.gov.uk/strategy/index.htm 5. How we work
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http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/howwework/index.htm 6. How HSE is organised http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/furtherinfo/directorates.htm 7. Annual and other reports http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/reports/index.htm 8. More about HSE http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/insidehse.htm 9. Find out more. http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/people.htm 10. More about HSE's people http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/people.htm 11. More about HSE's role http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/london-2012-games/index.htm 12. Latest vacancies and profiles http://www.hse.gov.uk/careers/jobprofiles.htm 13. Benefits of working for HSE http://www.hse.gov.uk/careers/benefits.htm 14. Apply online https://jobs.civilservice.gov.uk/company/nghr/app_center.cgi? SID=b3duZXI9NTA1MDAwMCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZzZWN0aW9uPWdlbmVyaWMmc2Vhc29uPTA= 15. More HSE careers http://www.hse.gov.uk/careers/index.htm 16. Enforcement http://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/index.htm 17. Legislation http://www.hse.gov.uk/legislation/index.htm 18. Better regulation http://www.hse.gov.uk/regulation/index.htm 19. Science, engineering and research http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/index.htm 20. Statistics http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/index.htm 21. Field operations http://www.hse.gov.uk/fod/index.htm 22. Hazardous installations http://www.hse.gov.uk/hid/index.htm 23. Nuclear safety and security http://www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/index.htm 24. More about HSE's work
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http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/hseswork.htm 25. Find out more. http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/meetings/index.htm 26. More about HSE's meetings http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/meetings/index.htm 27. More about the HSE's history http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/timeline/index.htm 28. Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) http://www.hsl.gov.uk/ 29. Businesses http://www.hse.gov.uk/business/index.htm 30. Workers http://www.hse.gov.uk/workers/index.htm 31. Safety representatives http://www.hse.gov.uk/involvement/hsrepresentatives.htm 32. Local Authorities http://www.hse.gov.uk/lau/index.htm 33. Chemicals Regulation Directorate http://www.pesticides.gov.uk/ 34. Adventure Activities (AALA) http://www.hse.gov.uk/aala/index.htm 35. Europe and worldwide http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/europe/index.htm 36. More about working with... http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/workingwith.htm

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