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Health and Safety Executive
Domain: Health and safety at work => Work organisation
Grammatical category
Noun phrase
Grammar notes
Uncountable
Definition
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a statutory non-departmental public body set up under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. The HSE's job is to help the Health and Safety Commission ensure that risks to people's health and safety from work activities are properly controlled. It has some specific statutory responsibilities of its own, notably for the enforcement of health and safety law. The Executive's staff, approximately 4000, include administrators, lawyers, inspectors, scientists, engineers, technologists and medical experts.
Definition source
HSE website "About HSE" (http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/hse/index.htm); The health and safety system in Great Britain (2002), HSE Books, ISBN 0717622436
European legislation
Directive 89/391/EEC
British legislation
The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
Related terms
It
= Comitato esecutivo per la salute e la sicurezza