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href="guidance/index.htm?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=guidance&utm_content=home-page-info">Guidance: health and safety</a></h3> <p>Help and information to keep people safe and healthy at work</p> </div></li> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a href="coshh/index.htm?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=coshh&utm_content=home-page-info">Chemicals, fumes and dust</a></h3> <p>Using and controlling substances hazardous to health (COSHH)</p> </div></li> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a href="simple-health-safety/index.htm?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hsms&utm_content=home-page-info">The basics for your business</a></h3> <p>Your main responsibilities as an employer</p> </div></li> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a 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Know the risks and plan to avoid or control them</p> </div></li> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a href="construction/index.htm?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=construction&utm_content=home-page-info">Construction</a></h3> <p>Site safety, working at height, scaffolding and Construction Design Management</p> </div></li> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a href="riddor/index.htm?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=riddor&utm_content=home-page-info" title="Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013">RIDDOR</a></h3> <p>Some serious workplace accidents, diseases or near misses (RIDDOR) must be reported</p> </div></li> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a href="simple-health-safety/law/index.htm?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=law&utm_content=home-page-info" title="Health and safety at work: criminal and civil law">The law</a></h3> <p>The Health and Safety at Work Act, criminal and civil law</p> </div></li> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a href="asbestos/?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=asbestos&utm_content=home-page-info" title="Asbestos: Why it's dangerous, removal, licensed contractors and training">Asbestos</a></h3> <p>Know the dangers. 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Find out about training</p> </div></li> </ul> </div> <div class="hse-section hse-section--homepage"> <h2>News</h2> <ul class="hse-grid-row hse-card-group"> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240219130746/https://press.hse.gov.uk/2024/01/15/keep-people-safe-from-future-dangers-of-asbestos-regulator-warns/?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=duty-to-manage&utm_term=asbestos-pr&utm_content=home-page-news" class="noIcon">HSE launches 'Asbestos – Your Duty' campaign</a></h3> <p>Workplaces, schools and hospitals are the focus of a new campaign to keep people safe from asbestos</p> </div></li> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240219130746/https://press.hse.gov.uk/2024/01/16/metalworking-fluids-most-businesses-inspected-not-doing-enough-to-protect-workers/?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mwf-inspections&utm_term=quiz-pr&utm_content=home-page-news" class="noIcon">Metalworking fluids inspections highlight failings</a></h3> <p>More than half of HSE’s checks have found businesses are ‘not doing enough’ to protect workers</p> </div></li> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240219130746/https://press.hse.gov.uk/2024/02/19/livestock-focus-as-national-campaign-bids-to-improve-safety-on-britains-farms/?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=agriculture-transport&utm_term=agriculture-pr&utm_content=home-page-news" class="noIcon">National campaign bids to improve safety on Britain’s farms</a></h3> <p>Incidents involving livestock were the number one cause of work-related deaths on British farms</p> </div></li> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240219130746/https://press.hse.gov.uk/2023/11/22/hse-publishes-annual-work-related-ill-health-and-injury-statistics-for-2022-23/?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=annual-stats-23&utm_term=stats-pr&utm_content=home-page-news">HSE publishes annual work-related ill health and injury statistics for 2022 to 2023</a></h3> <p>The statistics reveal that 1.8 million workers reported they were suffering from work-related ill health in 2022/23</p> </div></li> <li class="hse-grid-column-one-third"><div class="hse-card"> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240219130746/https://www.hse.gov.uk/safetybulletins/radiography-duplication-falsification.htm?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=radiograph-sa&utm_term=radiograph-sa&utm_content=home-page-news" class="noIcon">Safety alert: radiograph duplication and 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