| 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: 1 December 2022
This week's edition features: - guidance on keeping workplace temperature reasonable this winter
- HSE's annual health and safety statistics release for 2021/22
- advice for shift workers
- news of recent enforcement action
- links to some of our latest job vacancies
For the latest health and safety updates visit our website | | |  As winter takes hold, you can find helpful advice from HSE on keeping people as comfortable as possible when working in the cold. There is also guidance on protecting workers from hot temperatures. Our guidance has been refreshed to make it easier to find and understand advice on how to protect workers in both low and high temperatures. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations require employers to provide a reasonable indoor temperature in the workplace. Our guidance explains how you can assess the risks to workers and put controls in place to protect them. It covers: - working in hot and cold temperatures
- steps you can take to make people feel more comfortable
- outdoor working
- dehydration
- cold stress and heat stress
There is a workplace temperature checklist to help you carry out a basic risk assessment. We have also updated sources of advice, including practical steps you can take in the summer months to protect workers during a heatwave. | Last week HSE published the latest annual health and safety statistics for Great Britain. The annual report by HSE found that 1.8 million working people are suffering from work-related ill health and that 123 workers were killed at work in this time period. HSE's statistics website provides detailed commentary on these figures and is supported by: For more information you can read a press release, which includes comments from Sarah Albon, HSE Chief Executive.  Poorly designed shift working and long working hours, which don't balance work demands with time for rest and recovery, can result in fatigue, accidents, injuries and ill health. Worker fatigue is one of a number of human factors that can affect health and safety. Visit our website to view our hints and tips for shift-workers. There is also our downloadable publication Managing shift work, which improves the understanding of shift work and its potential health and safety impact. | Powys Teaching Health Board were fined after three employees who operated handheld power tools were diagnosed with hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS). HSE's investigation found that the health board had failed to properly assess the levels of exposure to its employees and that information, instruction and training given to staff was limited. It also found that the health board had ignored requests from its own occupational health department to conduct a risk assessment. To find out more details on this incident read this press release. Visit our website for guidance on what you need to do to prevent HAVS. Other recent prosecution cases include:  Work for HSE and you will be helping to protect lives and livelihoods. For details of selected posts, follow the links below: Keep up to date by viewing our latest vacancies | | | You can get all the latest news and updates from HSE across a range of industries and topics. | | | | |
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