HSE New System Strategy Published: Helping Great Britain Work Well

The new five year plan from the HSE has been published this week which aims to engage organisations, individuals and companies to share knowledge and expertise to work towards developing an improved health & safety awareness across the nation.

The new strategy covers six main themes:

• Promoting broader ownership of workplace health and safety
• Highlighting and tackling the burden of work-related ill-health
• Supporting small firms
• Enabling productivity through proportionate risk management
• Anticipating and tackling the challenges of new technology and ways of working
• Sharing the benefits of Great Britain’s approach

HSE Chair Judith Hackitt commented: “We have an unprecedented opportunity to keep building a 21st-century, world-class occupational health and safety system that will help Great Britain work well.

If we can all come together to help achieve these things, maintain the gains made in safety, and seize the opportunity to give health the same priority, it will help improve productivity, keep business costs down, help keep workers safe and well, and protect members of the public.”

To view the published strategy, visit: www.hse.gov.uk/strategy.

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