Enhancing Resilient Infrastructure May update

Research and Consultancy from HSE

Research and Consultancy eBulletin Are you having trouble viewing this email? View the content as a web page. Enhancing Resilient Infrastructure Solutions to support the management of today's and the development of tomorrow's safe and resilient infrastructure. Here's a round up of our latest news.   The Appliance of Science Last week HSE launched its Annual Science Review which showcases the important science that HSE has conducted over the past year. As an evidence-based regulator, science underpins everything we do: it informs our inspections, our investigations, our policies and our free information and guidance. It also informs our commercial solutions. When we work with customers to resolve their health and safety challenges, they benefit from the same knowledge, experience and regulatory insight that's been built up from being part of Great Britain's workplace health and safety regulator. This unique combination makes us unrivalled in our ability to support the safe management of your assets and infrastructure. Take a look at this year's review to see how we apply our science. Did you know that HSE investigates over 200 incidents per year? While Great Britain remains one of the safest places to work in the world, unfortunately workplace incidents occur on a regular basis. In 2020, HSE investigations included: the Erith oilseed factory explosion (June); the Bow tower crane collapse (July); the Bingley 'scissor lift' incident (November); and the Avonmouth water recycling plant explosion (December). In all these tragedies, individuals sadly lost their lives or were seriously injured. HSE's mission is to prevent work-related death, injury and ill health. We share the knowledge we learn from investigating incidents such as these via our research reports, the free information and guidance we make available on the HSE website and via the products, training, testing and research and consultancy services we offer to organisations to help them learn and improve so that they can prevent the same things from happening to them. Read about how we have helped Siemens to improve their incident investigations and organisational learning in our Annual Science Review. Meet the Head of HSE's Centre for Asset Integrity Operating and maintaining safe assets and infrastructure is not only a regulatory requirement, it makes sound business sense: it protects workers and reduces unplanned and unnecessary downtime, boosting profit and productivity. Our Centre for Asset Integrity offers solutions to organisations that want to improve the safe management of their assets and infrastructure. The Centre also enables the development of new materials and technologies. The Centre is led by David Johnson, who joined HSE as a Materials Scientist in 2008 and was responsible for developing HSE's composite materials capability. In 2016 David became Head of the Centre for Large-Scale Testing and Evaluation and worked with clients to enable new technologies, principally utilising HSE's extensive range of experimental facilities and bespoke testing know-how. Connect with David on LinkedIn to keep up to date with his latest news. HSE offers products and services to help you solve your health and safety challenges: Guidance and Research; Publications and Products; Training and Events; Testing and Monitoring; Research and Consultancy. You can get all the latest news and updates from HSE across a range of industries and topics. Subscribe to our eBulletins here Subscriber services: Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe | Disclaimer Email was sent to ooseims.archieves@blogger.com www.hse.gov.uk Health and Safety Executive - 5N1 Redgrave Court, Merton Road, Bootle, Merseyside L20 7HS