Health and Safety Executive

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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), reporting to the Health and Safety Commission, is the non-departmental public body of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the regulation of risks to health and safety in the UK. It was created as a result of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, and had absorbed earlier regulatory bodies such as the Factory Inspectorate and the Railway Inspectorate; the Railway Inspectorate was transferred to the Office of Rail Regulation in April 2006. The HSE is funded by the Department for Work and Pensions. As part of its work HSE investigates industrial accidents, such as the high profile explosion and fire at Buncefield in 2005.

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Local authorities are responsible to the HSE for the enforcement of safety laws in shops, offices, and other parts of the service sector.


Agencies belonging to the HSE include

HSE's Explosives Inspectorate enforces the legislation for the classification and transport of explosives. It licences manufacturing and larger storage sites.

Based in Buxton, Derbyshire, it employs over 350 people including scientists, engineers, psychologists, social scientists, health professionals and technical specialists. The services they provide include:

  • Research and development
  • Specialist advice and consultancy
  • Forensic investigation into the causes of accidents
  • Environmental and biological monitoring
  • Assessment of levels of risk and investigation of their control
  • Establishing realistic requirements for standards, and processes for meeting those standards
  • Validation and certification

In October 2006, the HSE launched its Better Backs campaign, using a fictional rockband (Bäackpain) in a series of humorous[citation needed] adverts, to help tackle problems caused by back pain in the UK.

The HSE focuses regulation of health and safety in the following sectors of industry:

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