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Health and Safety Executive
HSE InfolineCaerphilly Business Park
Caerphilly
CF83 3GG
Tel (Infoline): 0845 345 0055 8am - 6pm Monday - Friday.
Tel (Minicom):0845 408 9577
Fax: 0845 408 9566
Web: www.hse.gov.uk
Mission statement: To ensure that risks to people's health and safety from work activities are properly controlled.
The law says: employers have to look after the health and safety of their employees; employees and the self-employed have to look after their own health and safety; and all have to take care of the health and safety of others, for example, members of the public who may be affected by their work activity. The job of the HSE is to see that everyone does this. They are interested in the health and safety of people at work - that includes people who may be harmed by the way work is done (for example because they live near a factory, or are passengers on a train). In some situations, they are also concerned with the way work affects the environment. The roles of the HSE includes the following.- Develops new health and safety laws and standards, and plays a full part in international developments, especially in the European Union.
- Inspect workplaces.
- Investigates accidents and cases of ill health.
- Enforces good standards, usually by advising people how to comply with the law, but sometimes by ordering them to make improvements and, if necessary, by prosecuting them.
- Publishes guidance and advice.
- Provides an information service.
- Carries out research.
- Carries out various activities such as nuclear site licensing and accepting off shore installation safety cases.
Checked: June 2006
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