Research is undertaken to help meet HSE's business objectives. It plays a key role in:
- Improving our understanding of health and safety risks and how to control them
- Improving our understanding of how people behave and organisations respond to risks
- Supporting enforcement activities eg developing analytical techniques
- Ensuring health and safety regulations, standards and guidance are technically sound and cost effective
Recent construction specific research
- Evaluation of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (RR920) 2012
- Levels of respirable dust and respirable crystalline silica at construction sites (RR878) 2011
- A commentary on routes to competence in the construction sector (RR877) 2011
- Health and safety in public sector construction procurement - A follow-up study (RR848) 2011
- Evaluation of Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007: Pilot study (RR845) 2011
- Achieving change using the supply chain model in construction (RR843) 2011
- Preventing catastrophic events in construction (RR834) 2011
- Health surveillance in silica exposed workers (RR827) 2010
- Tower crane incidents worldwide (RR820) 2010
- Report of qualitative research amongst 'hard to reach' small construction site Operators (RR719) 2009
- Health and safety in public sector construction procurement (RR556) 2007
- An analysis of the prevalence and distribution of stress in the construction industry (RR518) 2007
- Occupational health standards in the construction industry (RR584) 2007
- The risk to third parties from bored tunnelling in soft ground (RR453) 2006
- An investigation of approaches to worker engagement (RR516) 2006
- Trojan horse construction site safety messages (RR336) 2005
- Safer foundations by design (RR319) 2005
- Causal factors in construction accidents (RR156) 2003