| This week's news and updates about health and safety at work |
| Having trouble viewing this email? View the content as a web page. | |  HSE Weekly Digest ebulletin Issued: 2 November 2022
This week's edition features: - a reminder about gas safety checks ahead of the winter
- advice on working safely with fireworks
- details of our musculoskeletal disorders risk-reduction awards
- news of recent enforcement action
- links to some of our latest job vacancies
For the latest health and safety updates visit our website. | | |  HSE recommends getting gas appliances checked each year. Homeowners should get gas appliances such as boilers, cookers, fires, flues, and pipework serviced on an annual basis by a qualified engineer listed on the Gas Safe Register. A recent prosecution case resulted in a gas engineer receiving a suspended prison sentence and 200 hours community service for carrying out unsafe work. You can view a wide range of guidance and information about gas safety on our website. This includes: | The firm's director was also ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and personally fined £4,200, following serious and repeated failings in managing the risk of fire during work at a construction site. The company had previously been subject to HSE interventions after risks of a fire had been identified across a number of sites over several years. Evidence gathered during this proactive HSE investigation indicated that the company director regularly attended the Regent House site and failed to implement improvements from previous HSE interventions. To find out more details on these incidents read this press release. Our website has more information about fire safety in construction.  HSE's annual musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) 'risk-reduction through design' award is now open for nominations. The award highlights the important contribution that ergonomics-based design changes can make to reduce the risks of work-related MSDs. We want businesses to nominate design changes that have made a real impact on reducing work-related MSDs risks for workers. The closing date for nominations is 31 January 2023. Full application details are now available on our website | Work for HSE and you will be helping to protect lives and livelihoods. We currently have an exciting and varied range of vacancies. For details of selected posts, follow the links below: Keep up to date with our latest vacancies by subscribing to our jobs ebulletin. | | You can get all the latest news and updates from HSE across a range of industries and topics. | | | | |
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