This report summarises the findings of a follow-up study to the HSE/DETR/Home Office/HM Treasury Project 'relativities' study (HSE CRR 273/2000), which sought to elicit public preferences for preventing fatalities in several hazard contexts (railway/road accidents and public/home fires). The very public debate in the media and elsewhere regarding the organisation of rail safety following the La...

Nowadays, industrialization exposes the human and environment resources to serious dangers. The importance of these resources caused the HSE (health, safety and environment) to have a significant contribution in industries’ evaluation, especially in construction industry. While evaluating the project’s success from an HSE point of view, it is not enough to rely solely on the outputs without con...

BACKGROUND The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has defined six management standards representing aspects of work that, if poorly managed, are associated with lower levels of employee health and productivity, and increased sickness absence. The HSE indicator tool aims to measure organizations' performance in managing the primary stressors identified by the HSE management standards. AIMS The ...

This paper contributes to understanding health, safety and environmental (HSE) regulation performance in the offshore oil gas industry. The United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) is used explain how both investments by companies regulatory initiatives can collectively contribute enhancing standards, thereby reducing total accident incident costs. We apply theoretical analytical dimensions: fir...

Nanoscience and nanotechnologies (NTs) have huge potential to improve competitiveness and sustainable development across a wide range of industrial sectors. Public perception of NT related to health, safety and environment (HSE) is critical for the responsible development of NT. It warrants a regulatory regime to demonstrate to the general public whether NTs are safe with regard to HSE. This wo...

3. The available literature for the two groups of compounds are summarised in this paper. In the case of the chlorinated paraffins, the available data were recently reviewed by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as rapporteur of the risk assessments under the EU Existing Substances Regulation. Only papers published after these risk assessments in 1999 for short chain compounds and 2004 fo...

Europe plays a major role in the international semiconductor industry, but has conducted few studies of the occupational health of its workers. An exception is in the United Kingdom, where, in two small studies, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) evaluated some health effects of semiconductor work. Neither of these studies, largely restricted to Scotland, produced definitive results, and bot...

educational centers are of those types of organizations to which almost everyone refer during the life to use the services. accordingly, the suitability of safety situation in these organizations is of high importance. the present study aims at investigation of effective factors on safety management in educational-training organizations of metropolises. this study is an applied descriptive rese...