Coastguards have been banned from using flares in rescue missions after they were ruled to be a risk to health and safety. The Libertarian Party totally condemn this ridiculous bureaucratic act and would immediately reverse this most stupid of decisions by the Health & Safety executive.

Councils and companies are using health and safety rules as an excuse to make "unpopular decisions" banning low-risk activities, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) says.

Published last week, Lord Young’s report for the government into health and safety regulations has gone largely unreported, even though “it’s health and safety gone mad” is such a common refrain in the media. The reason? Mostly, I suspect, because the report leads on health and safety for employees at work whilst the stories the

A Labour MP will today urge the government to make health and safety at work a priority for its education and skills agenda.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a consultation on its new strategy: The Health and Safety of Great Britain, Be Part of the Solution.  The strategy, which is resetting the direction for health and safety, sets out a number of goals to be achieved: These include HSE and Local...

Today marks the start of European Health & Safety Week. The poster to the left is from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work which is co-coordinating activities across Europe. In Britain the Health & Safety Executive is taking the lead (see here). The theme for the next 2...

Health and Safety Executive - This release gives the latest statistics on work-related health, safety and enforcement in Great Britain. The release includes a range of material on the Statistics website.

Conservative leader David Cameron is to call for an end to the UK's "over-the-top" health and safety culture.

The French EU Presidency's health priorities are five-fold: food safety, healthy ageing, cross-border health care, health determinants such as alcohol and tobacco and pharmaceuticals, French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot told Parliament.

I think it's fair to say that after "poltical correctness" the good old-fashioned "health and safety" story is well established in the media as a means of filling column space. The Health and Safety Executive comes under constant slagging off on blogs too (not least this one). As a result of the general "elf and safety" madness stories, for the past year or so, the HSE has been running its "Myth o...