HSE Press Office: Putting the record straight in 2008
Responding to health and safety related articles and reports in the British
media. HSC/E also takes an interest when other organisations respond to the media.
- 12.08.08 - Daily Express: "Organ grinder is a 'safety hazard'" Geoffrey Podger responds
- 05.08.08 - 'Trust failed patients' Geoffrey Podger responds to Daily Mail letter
- 21.07.08 - Sandra Caldwell, HSE's Deputy Chief Executive , responds to Daily Telegraph article: "Sweeping advice: don’t use a broom"
- 16.07.08 - Judith Hackitt responds to a letter in the Times, from Bill Oxley, entitled "Dangerous Gardening"
- 17.06.08 - Briefing from the Centre for crime and justice studies: "A crisis of enforcement: The decriminalisation of death and injury at work " Geoffrey Podger responds
- 13.06.08 - The Scotsman article: "Putting games to the sword"
- 03.06.08: The Scotsman article: "The high human cost of this Scottish Fruit" Dr Paul Stollard, HSE Director Scotland, responds
- 25.05.08: Telegraph article: "Farmers face £6 bn bill for asbestos clean up" Geoffrey Podger responds
- 07.05.08: Daily Mail article: "Scouting for leaders"
- 21.04.08: Guardian article: "Ten years on, the echoes of Simon's death are deafening" - Geoffrey Podger, HSE's Chief Executive, responds
- 27.02.08: Times article: "Courtesy can damage your health" - Geoffrey Podger responds
- 22.02.08: The Scotsman article: "Nerves of steel to build here"- Kevin Allars, Head of Chemical Industries Division, responds
- 14.02.08: Daily Express article "It's a pantomime for Clegg" - Judith Hackitt responds
- 11.02.08: Times article: ' Speed of construction is key to choice of nuclear reactors'Mike Weightman, Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, responds
- 08.02.08: Daily Peterborough Times article about increasing health and safety regulations, Geoffrey Podger responds
- 06.02.08: Judith Hackitt responds to the Daily Telegraph's coverage of the ongoing red tape saga
- 08.01.08: Geoffrey Podger responds to an article in the Daily Mail about the Army
- 03.01.08: The Independent - "A Year to Change the World"