About hsedirect

What is hsedirect?

Welcome to hsedirect, the most authoritative and reliable source of health and safety legislation and guidance available. At last, your health and safety information needs can be satisfied in one place.

Developed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in partnership with LexisNexis, hsedirect builds upon the HSE’s reputation for authority in the field of health and safety and LexisNexis’s reputation and extensive experience of publishing practical web based information solutions.

We have designed hsedirect to cater for anyone who has a responsibility for health and safety issues and management in the workplace. So whether you’re a dedicated health and safety professional, a personnel manager, or a managing director of a small business, you’ll find that hsedirect provides you with the information you need concerning workplace health and safety.

About us

HSE
As a government agency, HSE aims to ensure that risks to people’s health and safety from work activities are properly controlled. As such, HSE is interested in the health and safety of people at work - that includes people who may be harmed by the way work is done (for example because they live near a factory, or are passengers on a train). In some situations, HSE is also concerned with the way work affects the environment.

As part of its work, HSE helps to develop new health and safety laws and standards, and publishes guidance and advice. HSE also aims to ensure that legislation is upheld through inspecting workplaces, investigating accidents and cases of ill health, and enforcing good standards.
http://www.hse.gov.uk
http://www.hsebooks.co.uk

LexisNexis
LexisNexis has been providing essential information and guidance to professionals for over 80 years. As one of the leading publishers of tax, legal and business publications in the UK, LexisNexis has become synonymous with publications which provide accuracy, clarity and value, many of which provide the foundation for the efficient conduct of professional and business practice in both industry and commerce.
http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk

What’s on the site?

The objective of hsedirect is to provide the most authoritative source of health and safety information available. The site contains a free area as well as a huge database of health and safety legislation and guidance – subscription options start at just £20 (+VAT).

What's New

This is the free area of the site where you will find:

• current Consultative Documents,
• Year 2003 health and safety events,
• New on this Site information,
• Links to other relevant sites.

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hsedirect Subscribers Area

This includes:

Introduction to Health and Safety
Commentary on key topics such as statements of health and safety policy, employers' duties to employees, employment protection and enforcement.

HSE Legal Series
Approved Codes of Practice and HSE guidance on legislation, including the L, COP and HSR series.

HSE Guidance Series
Guidance from HSE on specific workplaces, processes and substances, including:

• HSG series
• Industry Advisory Committee publications and other topic-specific publications (including Essentials of health and safety at work)
• Guidance Note Series (CS, EH, GS, MS, PM)
• MDHS Series
• Information Sheets (please note that these are also freely available at www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hazards.htm)
• All the Local Authority Circulars produced by the Health and Safety Executive/Local Authorities Enforcement Liaison
• Committee (HELA) (please not that these are also freely available at www.hse.gov.uk/lau/lacs/index.htm)

HSE Forms
A selection of the most commonly used HSE forms that you can fill in online, print off and use.

Legislation
Fully amended and annotated text of health and safety legislation. This is supplemented by a Stop Press, which alerts the subscriber to any last-minute legislative changes.

European Directives
European Directives which relate to health and safety issues.

British Standard Summaries
Updated weekly, users can access and search a database of summaries of all the Standards relevant to health and safety. Each summary provides key information on the content of the Standard and a quick link takes the user through to BSI's British Standards Online service where the full text of the Standard can be purchased.

Safety, Health and Environment Cases
Practical summaries of key cases, recent cases and cases of special interest.

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Getting Started 

Click on "View Tutorial" on the home page to find out how to use hsedirect.

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Historical Versions Service

If you wish to see the law at any date since the beginning of January 1998, then use our Historical Versions Service to request the enactment or provision(s) in which you are interested.
Please email alex.miller@lexisnexis.co.uk with the following details and your request will be processed as soon as possible. The historical version of the requested enactment/provision will be sent to you by email.
Please email us with the following information:

Your name:
Telephone number:
Email address:
Company Name:
Title (of enactment):
Year (of enactment):
Series Number:
Provision(s)(if applicable):
Date of the version that you require (from the beginning of January 1998 onwards):
Enactment type eg Statute, Statutory Instrument, Measure:

Crown copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

This service only applies to legislation. We do not maintain historical versions of HSE documents.

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