Occupational health

An overview of the effects of work on health in the UK and the costs to employers and society and advice on how these health effects can be prevented and where to go for more information.

On this page we explain what the key legal requirements are for managing and controlling the risks from asbestos.

Our responsibilities and HSE's responsibilities for enforcing asbestos laws and what those laws require.

This page provides sources of further guidance on managing work-related stress, including the business case for better stress management.

This page provides examples of how rail companies can learn from others, including links to good practice case studies on managing work-related stress both from within and outside the rail industry.

This page provides summary guidance on how managers, employees, and human resource professionals should work together to prevent work-related stress, with links to additional resources to support each role. The HSE management standards approach requires managers and employees to work together to improve six main areas of work (demands, control, support, relationships, role, and change) that, if

Information on what rail employers need to do to adopt an organisational approach to preventing work-related stress.

Case studies that show examples of good practice in managing railway workers' health are set out below.

Our position on managing work-related stress in the rail industry, highlighting the costs as well as the business benefits of preventing stress before harm occurs.

Information is provided for employers and employees on health in the work place generally, specific health issues, healthy lifestyles and managing health risks