Health and Safety Executive
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| Formed | 1 January 1975 |
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| Type | Crown status non-departmental public body |
| Headquarters | Bootle, Merseyside, England |
| Employees | 2,921 (2023/24)[1] |
| Annual budget | £303.04m (2023/24)[2][note 1] |
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| Parent department | Department for Work and Pensions |
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| Website | www |
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a British public body responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare. It has additionally adopted a research role into occupational risks in Great Britain. It is a non-departmental public body with its headquarters in Bootle, England.[3] In Northern Ireland, these duties lie with the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland. The HSE was created by the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, and has since absorbed earlier regulatory bodies such as the Factory Inspectorate and the Railway Inspectorate though the Railway Inspectorate was transferred to the Office of Rail and Road in April 2006.[4] The HSE is sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions. As part of its work, HSE investigates industrial accidents, small and large, including major incidents such as the explosion and fire at Buncefield in 2005. Though it formerly reported to the Health and Safety Commission, on 1 April 2008, the two bodies merged.[5][6]
- ^ "HSE Annual Report and Accounts 2023/24" (PDF). GOV.UK. p. 79. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ^ "HSE Annual Report and Accounts 2023/24" (PDF). GOV.UK. p. 103. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ^ Health and Safety Executive. "HSE offices". Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- ^ Health and Safety Executive. "The history of HSE". Archived from the original on 30 January 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- ^ Health and Safety Executive (1 April 2008). "Health and Safety Executive and Accounts 2008/09" (PDF). The Stationery Office. HC580. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 July 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
On 1 April 2008, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) merged to form a single regulatory body, retaining the HSE title, with the overall purpose of the prevention of death, injury and ill health to those at work and those affected by work activities in Great Britain.
- ^ "Legislative Reform (Health and Safety Executive) Order 2008". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives. SI 2008/960.
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