(AGENPARL) – gio 01 dicembre 2022 This week’s news and updates about health and safety at work []
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Weekly Digest ebulletin
HSE Weekly Digest ebulletin
Issued: 1 December 2022
This week’s edition features:
– guidance on keeping workplace temperature reasonable this winter
– HSE’s annual health and safety statistics release for 2021/22
– advice for shift workers
– news of recent enforcement action
– links to some of our latest job vacancies
As winter takes hold, you can find helpful advice from HSE on keeping people as comfortable as possible when working in the cold. There is also guidance on protecting workers from hot temperatures.
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations require employers to provide a reasonable indoor temperature in the workplace.
It covers:
– working in hot and cold temperatures
– steps you can take to make people feel more comfortable
– outdoor working
– dehydration
– cold stress and heat stress
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Last week HSE published the latest annual health and safety statistics for Great Britain.
The annual report by HSE found that 1.8 million working people are suffering from work-related ill health and that 123 workers were killed at work in this time period.
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Poorly designed shift working and long working hours, which don’t balance work demands with time for rest and recovery, can result in fatigue, accidents, injuries and ill health.
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Powys Teaching Health Board were fined after three employees who operated handheld power tools were diagnosed with hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS).
HSE’s investigation found that the health board had failed to properly assess the levels of exposure to its employees and that information, instruction and training given to staff was limited.
It also found that the health board had ignored requests from its own occupational health department to conduct a risk assessment.
Other recent prosecution cases include:
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