UK H&S Executive: Safety alerts

Safety alerts from the UK Health and Safety Executive are for major faults that would result in a serious or fatal injury and where immediate remedial action is required. Safety alerts are issued when there is a specific safety issue that without immediate action being taken could result in a serious or fatal injury. When dangerous equipment, processes, procedures or substances are identified during or after an investigation or as the result of a notification from Europe or industry, HSE may need to notify users and other stakeholders of the danger. HSE may also need to notify other users of the steps that need to be taken to rectify the fault or protect people against it; a safety alert is one way of achieving this.

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Alerts have been published since 2008. Each alert provides a description of the issue (introduction and background), required actions for the target audience and reference to standards and/or the legal framework.

Doelgroep(en):

• HSE managers
• Maintenance managers
• Operatie managers
• Toezichthouders

Risicothema:

• Monitoring and Learning - Leren van Incidenten
• Process Safety - Asset Integrity Management - Algemeen
• Risk | Control | Assurance - Algemeen