Case Studies

Our case studies showcase the variety and complexity of the projects we have carried out for our customers.

If you would like further information on how your business can benefit from HSE's expertise, please contact us.

Complete Worker Health

• Alternative processes to grinding in order to lower or eliminate risk to workers using angle grinders
• Benzene exposure to workers during tunnelling
• Biological monitoring for acetamiprid: Collaborative working with customers
• Carcinogens in the electroplating industry
• Detergent enzymes
• Diacetyl in coffee manufacturing
• Evidence on occupational exposure to wood dusts
• Industrial application of MCU coatings: Assessing airborne isocyanates
• Insights into work-related MSDs
• Isocyanates in motor vehicle repair: Reducing exposure through training
• Leading logistics firm, Turners (Soham) Ltd describes HSE's MSD tool as 'very simple to use'
• New Online MSD Risk Assessment Tool
• Protecting British troops from biological warfare agents
• Reducing the risk of silicosis from artificial stone
• Shellfish processing: turning 'waste' into 'resource'
• Silica in Construction: Changes to approved methods of roof tile cutting
• Skin absorption of isocyanates: Laying of floor screeds
• Skin absorption of isocyanates: Use of MDI adhesive
• Spire Healthcare successfully reduces incidents and accidents using the HSE MSD tool
• Updating the evidence base and supporting SMEs in their wood dust exposure risks

Data-driven Insights

• Discovering Safety is a springboard to success for start-ups
• Health and Safety statistics to inform decision-making
• How DfT used the HSE National Population Database
• How the National Population Database assisted in the pandemic response
• Oxford Direct Services, maintaining housing, parks and streets by prioritising worker safety using HSE's Safety Climate Tool (hsl.gov.uk)
• Swisslog, one of the world's leading logistics automation companies, use HSE's Safety Climate Tool to support business improvement (hsl.gov.uk)
• Tools for the construction industry

Enhancing Resilient Infrastructure

• Taking human factors into consideration for future flight
• How HSE informed on-shore pipeline risk assessment guidelines in Brazil
• Improving safety culture at the London Olympic Park
• Keeping aircraft in the sky: Combustor burn-through testing
• Supporting international development in Mexico: Regulating the oil and gas sector
• Working with the Singaporean Government to help safeguard the public from major hazards

• HSE and industry develop good practice in remote visual inspection

Safe Net Zero

• Collaborating with Dstl to protect people from major hazards
• Decarbonisation of heat by repurposing the UK's local transmission pipeline system
• Developing the UK's first supply chain for repurposing and recycling lithium ion car batteries
• Ensuring the safety of hydrogen vehicles in tunnels and confined spaces
• Helping the Port of London develop a national hydrogen highway network
• Improving the safety of batteries for use in electric vehicles
• Research into the safe use of liquid hydrogen

Training and Events

• Cadent Gas: Becoming a high reliability organisation
• Bio-safety training for DHSC
• Teaming up with our Training Partner NEBOSH