With winter weather making workers reluctant to keep windows and doors open, it is even more important to ensure your workplace is adequately ventilated. Good ventilation helps reduce the risk from aerosol transmission and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Following useful feedback from businesses, HSE has updated its website on providing ventilation during the pandemic to make the advice easier to find and understand. We have updated our pages to include simplified advice on using CO2 monitors to identify poor ventilation. This covers the types of monitor to use, how to measure CO2 and deciding if a work space is suitable for monitors. There is also a new video on keeping vehicles ventilated, explaining how you can reduce the risk of transmitting the virus when using vehicles. Our guidance on balancing ventilation with keeping people warm at work has simple steps you can take to make sure your workplace is adequately ventilated without being too cold. These include: - partially opening windows and doors as this can still provide adequate ventilation
- opening higher-level windows to create fewer draughts
- if the area is cold, relaxing dress codes so people can wear extra layers and warmer clothing
In light of announcements made by the UK government this week, check the latest advice: View the latest GOV.UK guidance on how to stay safe and help prevent the spread of COVID-19. There is separate advice for Scotland and Wales. You can also find the latest updates on COVID-19 variants identified in the UK - GOV.UK. HSE's latest advice on keeping workplaces safe will help you to continue to work safely during the pandemic. A quarrying company has been fined six figures for safety breaches, after a flyrock projection event occurred during the use of explosives. The blast resulted in rocks being ejected outside of the danger zone. HSE's investigation found that flyrock from the blasting operation had landed approximately 270m away, punctured the roof of an occupied work shed, and put a hole in the outside pane of the occupied manager's office skylight window. Read this press release for more details on this incident. Other recent enforcement news includes:  Join our team here at HSE and help to protect lives and livelihoods. Find out more and apply by following the links on the latest vacancies below... For a full list of current vacancies visit our website. | | 
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