Health and Safety
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HSE what's new
In a world heaving under the weight of billions of web pages, keeping up to date with the information you want can be difficult and time consuming.
Wouldn't it be better to have the latest news delivered directly to you, rather than clicking from site to site? Well now you can, thanks to a very clever service, RSS.
Not all websites currently provide RSS, but it is growing rapidly in popularity and many websites such as the HSE do provide an RSS feed.
In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications. All allow you to display and subscribe to the RSS feeds you want.
Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want. For example, if you would like to be informed of major updates and news stories from the HSE simply visit the what's new section of the website and you will notice an orange RSS button on the right hand side.
If you click on the button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader.
Some browsers, including Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Opera and Safari, have functionality which automatically picks up RSS feeds for you. For more details on these, please check their websites.
There is a range of different news readers available and new versions are appearing all the time.
Different news readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to take this into account when you make your choice.
On the right of this page we have listed some of the most popular news readers.
We encourage the use of the HSE RSS newsfeed as part of your website, subject to our Terms and Conditions.
If you would like to incorporate our rss newsfeed into your website but do not have access to server scripting you may wish to utilise our free javascript RSS service to copy and paste a simple piece of script into your website pages.
An example of the code you would need to copy into the <body> area of your page using our general rss newsfeed as an example is shown below.
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://news.hse.gov.uk/feed2js/feed2js.php?src=
http://news.hse.gov.uk/feed&num=
10&desc=100&date=y&tz=+0&utf=y">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://news.hse.gov.uk/feed2js/feed2js.php?src=
http://news.hse.gov.uk/feed&num=
10&desc=100&date=y&tz=+0&utf=
y&html=y">View RSS feed</a>
</noscript>
An example of the code you would need to copy into the <body> area of your page using our construction industry rss newsfeed as an example is shown below.
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://news.hse.gov.uk/feed2js/feed2js.php?src=
http://news.hse.gov.uk/category/construction/feed&num=
10&desc=100&date=y&tz=+0&utf=y">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://news.hse.gov.uk/feed2js/feed2js.php?src=
http://news.hse.gov.uk/category/construction/feed&num=
10&desc=100&date=y&tz=+0&utf=
y&html=y">View RSS feed</a>
</noscript>
Note - this feed produces character encoded to utf-8 standards and the Newsfeed may not display correctly on your website pages if you do not specify the character encoding of the page where you publish this feed as utf-8.
However, we do require that the proper attribution is used when HSE News content appears. The attribution text should read "HSE News" or "From HSE News" as appropriate. You may not use any HSE logo or other HSE trademark.
We reserve the right to prevent the distribution of HSE News content.
The HSE does not accept any liability for its RSS feeds.
