Great Britain: new Health and Safety Executive strategy

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ial accidents, break down stereotypes on health and safety, make people realize, with common sense, that good risk management doesn’t thwart business, it favors it: these are the objectives of the new HSE strategy. (Ref. 090610)




Ambitious and strict strategy. The Health and Safety Executive is aimed at preventing industrial accidents and occupational diseases. When it was created in 2008, the new board decided to develop a new health and safety strategy (see our dispatch No. 080978). It was re

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