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About the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

HSE's job is to protect people against risks to health or safety arising out of work activities.

"Our mission is to protect people's health and safety by ensuring risks in the changing workplace are properly controlled."


We conduct and sponsor research, promote training, provide an information, and advisory service and submit proposals for new or revised regulations and approved codes of practice.

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The HSE is committed to being open about what it does

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Real people describing how their lives were irreparably changed

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Speeches and information on future events involving senior HSE officials

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Help fight the myths - tell others about them!

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Using our brains to save and improve the lives of workers