Agriculture has been identified as a priority industry because it has one of the worst fatal accident records of any industry. This link takes you straight to the Agriculture Section of the HSE's Website.

HSE provides practical steps to protect people from the risks in the workplace that cause real harm and suffering. This dedicated Risk website provides a wide range of tools, sample risk assessments and further practical guidance for use in the workplace.

Greenstreet Research Report (Reviewing the Targeted Initiatives - RR620)

A number of manufacturing sectors have been operating voluntary ‘targeted initiatives’ whereby a trade association, often with trade union involvement, sets health and safety targets and supports their achievement against a background of HSE prompting and involvement. This review of eleven initiatives found mixed outcomes, with five successful initiatives associated with significant reductions in injury rates and positive subjective feedback.

Four other initiatives were either too young or too small scale to provide clear results and the remaining two did not appear to have made progress. A HSE ‘policy model’ is provided to inform future engagement and support of targeted initiatives, along with suggestions on further development of good practice in respect of targeted initiatives.

This report and the work it describes were funded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Its contents, including any opinions and/or conclusions expressed, are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect HSE policy

There has been a long history of respiratory disease associated with exposure to respirable crystalline silica. Improvements in workplace standards of control have led to a marked improvement in ill-health statistics in the UK since the 1930s.

This page provides information to inspectors on Silica, Silicosis and what to look for during an inspection.

Under Freedom of Information (FOI), the HSE Field Operations Directorate (FOD) have made their inspection packs, as issued to inspectors, available online.

These inspection instructions highlight where inspectors are likely to focus their inspections on, and what they will be looking for onsite and in your policies and procedures.