Health & Safety Executive

(HSE)

The non-departmental public body (quango) regulating work-related health, safety and illness in Great Britain with the aim of preventing work-related death and serious injury in the workplace.

conkers bonkers,
duty of care,
Forest Industry Safety Accord (FISA),
health and safety,
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974,
National tree safety group,
risk,
risk assessment,
safe,
Sector information minute,
tolerability of risk

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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