About UK Safety News

UK Safety News is a daily news and analysis service covering health, safety and wellbeing across the United Kingdom. We report on workplace incidents, HSE prosecutions and enforcement, product and food recalls, public health alerts, fire safety, transport safety and the regulatory changes that affect employers, workers and the public.

The site exists because most safety news reaches the people who need it too late, or not at all. A prosecution reported in a regional paper, a recall notice buried on a regulator’s website, or a coroner’s finding that never makes the national press all carry lessons for other sites and other employers. We bring those stories together in one place, every day, and explain what they mean in practice.

Who we write for

Our readers are the people responsible for keeping others safe: health and safety managers and advisors, site and operations managers, HR and facilities teams, contractors, union safety representatives, trainers, and business owners who carry those duties themselves. Many of them are in construction, manufacturing, energy, logistics, agriculture, healthcare and the public sector, but the stories we cover apply to any organisation with a duty of care.

We also write for the wider public. Product recalls, food safety alerts and public health warnings matter to everyone, and we cover them in plain language so that a parent, a tenant or a consumer can act on them.

What we cover

Workplace incidents and fatalities, and what the investigation found. HSE, ORR, MHRA, FSA and local authority enforcement, including prosecutions, fines and improvement and prohibition notices. Product, vehicle, food and medicine recalls. Public health alerts from the UKHSA and the NHS. Fire safety, including Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order enforcement and building safety. Transport and road safety. Occupational health, including noise, vibration, dust, asbestos, silica and mental health at work. Changes to legislation, approved codes of practice and guidance.

How our stories are put together

Every story on UK Safety News starts from a published source: an HSE press release, a court report, a regulator’s recall notice, a coroner’s conclusion, or a report from an established news outlet. We summarise the facts, keep direct quotes exactly as they were given, and link to the original report at the end of every article so that readers can go straight to the source.

What we add is the analysis. Most stories carry a short section headed “What this means for your site”, written from the perspective of a UK health and safety practitioner. It sets out which legislation applied, what could reasonably have been done differently, and one or two practical steps an organisation can take to avoid a similar outcome. That section is the reason the site exists. The news tells you what happened; the analysis tells you what to do about it.

We use software, including AI tools, to help draft and format articles, and our editorial team reviews what is published. If you spot an error, our corrections and complaints policy explains how to tell us and how we put it right.

Editorial standards

We report facts as they were published by the original source and we do not speculate about the cause of an incident before an investigation has concluded. We name companies and individuals only where a court, regulator or official body has already done so. We do not publish sponsored content presented as news, and any promotional material on the site is labelled as such. Our full editorial policy is published on the site.

Where we offer analysis of legislation, it is general guidance written for a UK audience and is not legal advice. Every organisation’s circumstances are different, and we encourage readers to check the current guidance from the HSE or the relevant regulator, or to take professional advice, before acting.

Guides and reference material

Alongside the daily news we publish longer guides on the subjects that generate the most questions: RIDDOR reporting, COSHH, working at height, fire risk assessment, managing contractors under CDM 2015, confined spaces, asbestos, noise and vibration and lock out tag out. You will also find a set of downloadable documents for use on site.

Get in touch

We welcome tips, corrections and story suggestions from safety professionals, witnesses and readers. If you have information about an incident, an enforcement action or a recall that we have not covered, or you would like to contribute a guest article, please use the contact page. Details of the people who write for the site are on our team page.

UK Safety News is published by Resolution Television Ltd, trading as Res Digital, a UK company that has designed bespoke health and safety, induction and eLearning software for industry for more than twenty years. The site is editorially independent of that work and has no affiliation with the HSE or any government body.