HSE "live issues"

HSE Food and drink manufacturing website

Information on a wide range of food and drink manufacture health and safety topics and issues is available on HSE's food and drink website.

HSE Food and Drink Manufacturing E Bulletins

HSE publishes an eBulletin for the Food & Drink Manufacturing Industry.  To find out more go to:

• E Bulletins 

Topic Inspection Packs (TIPs)

To support their inspection and enforcement activities HSE publish TIPs.  These provide advice and support information for those undertaking inspections.  To find out more go to: 

• Asbestos
• Asthmagens
• Craft bakeries^]
• Enforcement of consultation Regulations^]
• Falls from height
• Hand-arm vibration
• Hand-arm vibration - Appendix F - Industry-specific good practice
• LPG
• Metalworking fluids
• Migrant working
• Motor vehicle repair (MVR) - Isocyanate exposure
• Musculoskeletal disorders
• Noise^]
• Noise - Established noise controlled methods
• Slips & trips
• Stonemasonry
• Stress
• Workplace transport
• Work-related contact dermatitis

Prosecutions

Legal cases outside the food industry feature in general HSE press releases which is part of HSE's media centre.

• Pizza company fined for endangering workers
• Worker killed by cloud of toxic gas
• Failure of cold/frozen food store ceilings
• Unsafe maintenance - metal pillar falls on engineer
• Worker injured standing on lift truck forks 
• Ladder exchange is back
• Biscuit company prosecuted after worker's finger severed in mixing machine
• Frozen vegetable supplier fined after amputation at automatic palletising machine
• Human factors and their effect on health and safety
• Safe maintenance
• Managing for health and safety
• New Safety Climate Tool
• Equality and Human Rights Commission Report - meat and poultry processing industry
• What HSE inspectors will be looking at during 2010/11
• HSE launches new ART tool
• European Good Practice Awards 2010 - Safe maintenance
• New guidance on work at height equipment for cold stores