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Health and Safety Executive enforcement actions: improvement and prohibition notices, convictions and Crown censures. Each record links to the HSE's own entry.

This page covers public bodies only: it lists a record only when the organisation HSE named matches a public body we track, by its exact name or a known alias.

111 actions 84 improvement notices 6 prohibition notices 10 convictions 11 Crown censures
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NHS Tayside ↗

Improvement notice21 Jul 2026NHS TaysideHOSPITAL ACTIVITIESDundee UA

Romero Catholic Academy Trust ↗

Conviction16 Jul 2026Fine £32,000THE ROMERO CATHOLIC ACADEMYPadiham, Burnley

Academy Trust site supervisor left wondering if he would survive after fall from height

BOC Limited ↗

Improvement notice17 Jun 2026BOC LimitedMF OF INDUSTRIAL GASESNeath & Port Talbot UA

Scottish Government ↗

Improvement notice13 May 2026Scottish GovernmentGENERAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONEdinburgh UA

Cardiff University ↗

Conviction30 Apr 2026Fine £280,000Cardiff University

Cardiff University fined £280,000 after two employees develop occupational asthma

Cumberland Council ↗

Improvement notice20 Apr 2026Cumberland CouncilGENERAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONCumberland

Bassetlaw District Council ↗

Conviction1 Apr 2026Fine £50,000Bassetlaw District CouncilQueen's Buildings, Potter Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 2AH

District Council fined £50,000 after worker seriously injured in lawnmower incident

British Steel Limited ↗

Improvement notice19 Mar 2026British Steel LimitedBASIC IRON/STEEL/FERRO-ALLOYSNorth Lincolnshire

Barking,Havering & Redbridge Uni Hosp NHS Trust ↗

Improvement noticeNot complied4 Mar 2026Comply by 26 Nov 2026Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust86900 - OTHER HUMAN HEALTH ACTIVITIESHavering

Failure to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety, and welfare of your employees by failing to have suitable arrangements for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of your preventive and protective measures for the provision of relevant clinical details for samples which may contain Hazard Group 3 biological agents.

West Mercia Police ↗

Conviction20 Feb 2026Fine £85,800West Mercia Police

Police force fined after student officer hit by car on Christmas Eve

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Note 5) ↗

Improvement noticeNot complied2 Feb 2026Comply by 29 May 2026Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea84110 - GENERAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONKensington & Chelsea

Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea - Notice Case - IN/MA/RBK/241125/01

Coventry City Council ↗

Improvement noticeComplied2 Feb 2026Comply by 9 Mar 2026Coventry City Council84110 - GENERAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONCoventry

Notice 315638934 / GRP18/19012026/KS1 - IN served - failure to ensure that those employees who are exposed to Respirable Crystalline Silica, which is a substance hazardous to health, where there is a reasonable likelihood that an identifiable disease / health effect may occur (silicosis), are under suitable health surveillance.

Derbyshire Constabulary ↗

Conviction19 Jan 2026Fine £60,000Derbyshire ConstabularyButterley Hall, Ripley, Derby

Derbyshire Police prosecuted for failing to protect officers

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead ↗

Improvement noticeComplied13 Jan 2026Comply by 2 Mar 2026Windsor and Maidenhead Council99000 - EXTRATERRITORIAL ORGS/BODIESWindsor & Maidenhead

You have failed to ensure that a suitable and sufficient assessment is carried out to determine whether asbestos is or is liable to be present in the lift shafts within your premises where you have an obligation of maintenance or repair. By failing to carry out an assessment you are putting any workers under your control at risk of exposure to asbestos which can cause asbestosis or mesothelioma. As a dutyholder with maintenance and repair responsibilities, you have failed to ensure that: a) A written plan, namely an Asbestos Management Plan, is prepared identifying the parts of your premises where you have ascertained there is a risk that asbestos is or is liable to be present and b) the measures that are to be taken for managing that risk are specified in the plan.

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead ↗

Improvement noticeComplied22 Dec 2025Comply by 19 Jan 2026Windsor and Maidenhead Council99000 - EXTRATERRITORIAL ORGS/BODIESWindsor & Maidenhead

You have failed to ensure that a suitable and sufficient assessment is carried out to determine whether asbestos is or is liable to be present in the lift shafts within your premises where you have an obligation of maintenance or repair. By failing to carry out an assessment you are putting any workers under your control at risk of exposure to asbestos which can cause asbestosis or mesothelioma. As a dutyholder with maintenance and repair responsibilities, you have failed to ensure that: a) A written plan, namely an Asbestos Management Plan, is prepared identifying the parts of your premises where you have ascertained there is a risk that asbestos is or is liable to be present and b) the measures that are to be taken for managing that risk are specified in the plan.

British Steel Limited ↗

Improvement noticeComplied28 Nov 2025Comply by 2 Feb 2026British Steel Limited24100 - BASIC IRON/STEEL/FERRO-ALLOYSNorth Lincolnshire

Improvement Notice issued as you have failed to ensure that employees exposures to substances hazardous to health is either prevented or, where prevention is not reasonably practicable, adequately controlled, namely employees exposure to manganese whilst loading additions during the tapping process in the vessels area of the plant.

Northumbria Police ↗

Improvement noticeComplied27 Nov 2025Comply by 8 Jan 2026Northumbria Police84240 - PUBLIC ORDER/SAFETY ACTIVITIESNewcastle-upon-Tyne

Improvement Notice IN-RMC-01-03-27/11/2025-01 served - You have failed to ensure so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all employees in your employment in that you have failed to ensure that Detention Officers are provided with stab vests when conducting section 54 searches of detainees.

North Lanarkshire Council ↗

Improvement noticeNot complied26 Nov 2025Comply by 6 Apr 2026North Lanarkshire Council84110 - GENERAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONNorth Lanarkshire UA

Notice: 315509825 - Serial Number: IAWU5G25261125-1 You have failed to make and give effect to such arrangements as are appropriate for the management of health and safety, which are appropriate to your activities and which are proportionate to the risks to be managed, in that the system in place for the selection of access equipment for work at height for employees working at community playparks is not effective, giving risk to the injury of one of your employees.

Hywel Dda University Health Board ↗

Improvement noticeComplied26 Nov 2025Comply by 6 Mar 2026Hywel Dda University Health Board86101 - HOSPITAL ACTIVITIESPembrokeshire UA

Your current arrangements for planning, organising, monitoring and review of the preventative and protective measures necessary to minimise the risk of exposure of your employees to hazardous biological agents at the Microbiology Department for diagnostic purposes, are inadequate in that they failed to appropriately prioritise, follow up and address issues relating to (1) safe handling of contaminated laboratory waste and (2) the impermeability of laboratory benches

The Thinking Schools Academy Trust ↗

Prohibition notice25 Nov 2025THE THINKING SCHOOLS ACADEMY TRUST85310 - GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATIONMedway Towns UA

Work was being carried out in and access allowed to the external boiler room at Guernsey Benham House without suitable controls. This created a risk of serious personal injury from exposure to asbestos fibres, which could cause asbestosis or mesothelioma. This was because unencapsulated asbestos debris was present on the walls and damaged asbestos material was on the floor, and adequate measures were not taken to prevent exposure.

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