HSE focuses on health priorities across industry sectors
For the purposes of the ‘Help Great Britain Work Well Strategy’, the HSE has split the workplaces of Great Britain into 19 sectors, based on industry type and risk profile. Click here to access the full range of different sector plans (formerly known as Sector Strategies) and the priorities and associated actions for each industry sector over the next three to five years. Each of these plans has been developed following the input from employers, trade unions and professional bodies.
The HSE will continue to work with these sectors, on the three areas of health priority that it highlighted in its ‘Health and Work Strategy’, namely: occupational lung disease; musculoskeletal disorders and work-related stress. The document sets out how the HSE will continue to address these issues, in terms of working with other cross-government initiatives, engaging the support of the wider community and using innovative approaches to drive behavioural changes within the workplace, in order to reduce the number of new cases of occupational ill health. The strategy also highlights the business costs of not tackling health issues at work – HSE figures show that work-related ill health is costing the economy more than £9bn with 26 million working days being lost.
The HSE anticipates that by setting out its priorities, it will encourage a collective approach across Great Britain to have a positive impact on health issues across all sectors. The HSE has also launched a new national campaign called ‘Go Home Healthy’ which aims to reduce cases of workplace ill health, by spotlighting the causes of ill health and encouraging employers to do the right thing to tackle health issues at work.
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