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*running insight-led campaigns to change behaviour and make workplaces safer and healthier; | *running insight-led campaigns to change behaviour and make workplaces safer and healthier; | ||
*bringing together HSE’s world-leading science and research teams with policy and operational specialists to make evidence-based decisions<ref>HSE, 2019. [http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/reports/ara-2017-18.pdf The Health and Safety Executive Annual Report and Accounts 2017/18.] ISBN 978-1-5286-0143-6.</ref>. | *bringing together HSE’s world-leading science and research teams with policy and operational specialists to make evidence-based decisions<ref>HSE, 2019. [http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/reports/ara-2017-18.pdf The Health and Safety Executive Annual Report and Accounts 2017/18.] ISBN 978-1-5286-0143-6.</ref>. | ||
When an event occurs, the HSE can launch an investigation into reportable injuries, diseases, dangerous occurrences and concerns raised by workers, the public or others. HSE does this to improve health and safety standards by determining the cause of the event, sharing lesson learnt by an occurrence, identifying what actions a duty holder needs to take to prevent any recurrence and where appropriate, gather evidence to bring a prosecution<ref>HSE, 2013. [http://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/when-how-investigate.htm HSE - When and how we investigate. Health and Safety Executive Hse.gov.uk.] [online] [Accessed 30 Oct. 2019]</ref>. | |||
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