Workplace Transport Safety: Forklifts, Pedestrians & Traffic Management
Workplace Transport Safety: Forklifts, Pedestrians & Traffic Management Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 13 minutes In short: keep people and vehicles apart. Give pedestrians their own routes, design out reversing wherever you can, set and enforce speed limits, keep vehicles maintained and thoroughly examined, and only [...]
Managing Contractors Under CDM 2015: Roles, Duties & Controls
Managing Contractors Under CDM 2015: Roles, Duties & Controls Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 13 minutes In short: CDM 2015 applies to every construction project in Great Britain, however small. If more than one contractor will be involved, the client must appoint a principal designer and [...]
A Complete Guide to Reporting Safety Incidents in the UK
A Complete Guide to Reporting Safety Incidents in the UK Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 15 minutes In short: record every incident and near miss internally, decide within hours whether it is reportable under RIDDOR, report fatalities and specified injuries without delay, get other reports in [...]
Understanding RIDDOR
Understanding RIDDOR Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 12 minutes In short: RIDDOR is the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013. A "responsible person" (usually the employer, or the person in control of the premises) must report work related deaths, eight specified injuries, injuries [...]
Noise & Vibration at Work: Practical Controls (2005 Regulations)
Noise & Vibration at Work: Practical Controls (2005 Regulations) Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 13 minutes In short: two sets of 2005 regulations, one for noise and one for vibration, work the same way. Each sets an action value at which you must start controlling exposure [...]
Asbestos in the Workplace: Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR) Essentials
Asbestos in the Workplace: Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR) Essentials Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 13 minutes In short: if you own, lease or maintain a building built or refurbished before 2000, assume it contains asbestos until a survey proves otherwise. Regulation 4 of the [...]
Fire Risk Assessment: Meeting the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order
Fire Risk Assessment: Meeting the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order Last updated: 8 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 12 minutes In short: if you employ people, own business premises or control a building, you are a "responsible person" under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. In practice you [...]
10 Workplace Safety Failures
10 Workplace Safety Failures Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 13 minutes In short: the same ten failures fill HSE's fatality statistics and prosecution lists every year. Each has a named regulation, a known fix and a recent court case. Use the audit table at the end [...]
Confined Spaces in the UK: Safe Entry under the Confined Spaces Regulations 1997
Confined Spaces in the UK: Safe Entry under the Confined Spaces Regulations 1997 Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 14 minutes In short: a confined space is a place that is substantially enclosed and where one of five specified risks is reasonably foreseeable. The Confined Spaces Regulations [...]
COSHH Basics: A Practical Guide to Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
COSHH Basics: A Practical Guide to Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 13 minutes In short: COSHH applies to almost every workplace. Assess every product and process that produces dust, fume, mist, vapour, gas or biological agents, prevent exposure where you [...]
DSE & Ergonomics: Healthy Workstations for Office & Hybrid Teams
DSE & Ergonomics: Healthy Workstations for Office & Hybrid Teams Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 12 minutes In short: anyone who uses a screen daily for continuous spells of an hour or more is a DSE user, and the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations [...]
Working at Height in the UK: The Essentials (WAH Regulations 2005)
Working at Height in the UK: The Essentials (WAH Regulations 2005) Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 12 minutes In short: work at height is any work where a person could fall a distance liable to cause injury, and there is no two metre threshold. The Work [...]
Lock out Tag out LOTO
Lock out Tag out LOTO Last updated: 7 September 2026 Author: Jade Anderson, Senior Reporter, UK-Safety.News Reading time: about 13 minutes In short: lock out tag out (LOTO) means isolating every energy source on a machine, locking the isolation with a personal lock, tagging it, releasing stored energy and proving the equipment dead before anyone [...]