Health and Safety Executive (UK)

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What statistics does the BSR already have access to across its operations and what is the potential for these to be used to inform regulatory assurance and impact?

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What influences construction activity in the sector, and which have the most impact on a project’s health and safety management (both at the small and larger project scale)?

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What asbestos remains in the built environment, at what rate is this currently being disturbed and how will industry trends impact on this?

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How can BSR most effectively baseline and evaluate industry competence levels and also evaluate regulatory competence, including performance with other regulatory interdependencies e.g. the regulatory resource of Building Control Bodies?

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Is there opportunity to transfer knowledge into and across the diverse construction and building safety sectors to build competence levels aided by appropriate benchmark standards?

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What are the effective ways to ensure construction workers (particularly in small businesses) are appropriately engaged with and competent in relevant health and safety matters?

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Are there alternative approaches that build on our regulatory models, which will encourage innovation and further minimise chemical use and regulatory burdens?

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What are the significant hazards and risks associated with the deployment and scale-up of new and emerging technologies for Net Zero, such as Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) and hydrogen?

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How can the integrity and safety of industrial assets be ensured across their lifecycle?

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What can be learned from the deployment and scale-up of more mature industries that will help the management of safety outcomes for the emergence of new technologies?

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What are the main health and safety challenges related to maintenance and repair of ageing low carbon energy infrastructure, such as offshore wind turbines?

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What are the safety implications of widespread adoption (including retrofitting) across the built environment from low carbon heat solutions including the impact of non-fossil fuel heating and storage systems and the impact of heat pumps on noise/acoustic performance standards and legionella control?

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What is the evidence required to best understand who will take responsibility for 'risk' in a workplace and what is the outcome in an increasingly complex landscape?

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Are there alternative regulatory models, interventions and instruments to improve/encourage innovation and improve workplace safety outcomes whilst minimising regulatory burdens?

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How is social change impacting on change in risks to workforce safety? What competence is required to ensure organisations, managers and supervisors can support the workforce?

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Are there indicators that risk attitudes and/or behaviours are likely to change in the future: and for which groups of workers are they likely to change?

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What are the longer-term trends in flexible, hybrid and home working and what are the positive and negative impacts on workforce safety? What are the impacts of potential inequalities across sectors and groups of workers?

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What factors and evidence do organisations such as companies, occupational health providers or other medical professionals consider in decision making when determining if an individual has work-related stress?