Health and safety reform

What the government is doing about health and safety reform

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Guidance and regulation

• International Labour Convention No. 191 concerning Amendments to Standards Consequential to the Recognition of a Safe and Healthy Working Environment as a Fundamental Principle [MS No.3/2025]
  • Guidance
  • 22 April 2025
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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News and communications

• SU and international partners endorse new guidelines on duty of care
  • 26 April 2017
  • Stabilisation Unit
  • News story
• Non-Executive director appointment to the Health and Safety Executive
  • 21 April 2017
  • Department for Work and Pensions and Health and Safety Executive
  • News story
• Announcement of Health and Safety Executive appointments
  • 2 September 2016
  • Department for Work and Pensions and Health and Safety Executive
  • News story
• Martin Temple appointed as the new Chair of HSE
  • 26 April 2016
  • Department for Work and Pensions and Health and Safety Executive
  • Press release
• ‘Dangerous’ daffodils and 10 more ‘elf and safety myths
  • 25 March 2015
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Fatal injuries arising from accidents at work in Great Britain: Summary for April to December 2025
  • 23 April 2026
  • Health and Safety Executive
  • National statistics
• Fatal injuries arising from accidents at work in Great Britain: Summary for April to June 2024
  • 9 October 2024
  • Health and Safety Executive
  • Official statistics
• BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Wave 29
  • 9 May 2019
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Official statistics
• Reclaiming health and safety for all (Löfstedt report): a review of progress one year on
  • 4 February 2013
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Independent report
• Evaluation of employment advisers in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme (RR826)
  • 22 January 2013
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Health and Safety Executive: 3-yearly review of its future as a non-departmental public body
  • 9 January 2014
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 26 July 2013
• Health and safety in Scotland: a review
  • 6 November 2015
  • Department for Work and Pensions, Health and Safety Executive, and Scottish Office
  • Policy paper
• 2010 to 2015 government policy: health and safety reform
  • 8 May 2015
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Policy paper
• Improving health and safety final report March 2015
  • 24 March 2015
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Policy paper
• Health and Safety Act 2008: Post-legislative scrutiny memorandum 16 January 2014
  • 16 January 2014
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Health and Safety Executive triennial review 2014
  • 31 October 2014
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Corporate report
• DWP health, safety and wellbeing annual report 2013 to 2014
  • 29 September 2014
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Corporate report
• DWP health, safety and wellbeing annual report 2012 to 2013
  • 30 October 2013
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Corporate report
• Tunnel complex, Rhydymwyn
  • 17 September 2013
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Foi release
• DWP health, safety and wellbeing annual report 2009 to 2010
  • 7 July 2010
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department
  for Work &
  Pensions
• Cabinet Office
• Department
  for Environment,
  Food & Rural Affairs
• Foreign, Commonwealth
  & Development Office
• Intellectual
  Property
  Office

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• Prime Minister's Office
  10 Downing Street