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Mar72025

The UK Chemicals Helpline is changing

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The UK Chemicals Contact Centre was established to support businesses and stakeholders with general enquiries relating the EU Exit Transition Period.

On 31 March 2025 the telephone services for the Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR), Prior Informed Consent Regulation (PIC) and Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation (CLP) will be closing.

HSE can still be contacted with any queries regarding BPR, PIC, or CLP after this date, the relevant webpage for each regime contains more information on how to contact the appropriate helpdesk service.

If you need technical advice on other health and safety issues or if you want to report a concern about workplace health and safety conditions, please see the main contact page.

The UK Chemicals Helpline service, available on 0330 159 1985, will continue for UK REACH enquiries.

Company fined for unsafe scaffolding

Workers scrambled up the rungs of an unsafe scaffold to work at a block of flats in Merseyside. The company in question, A.I.M Access Solutions Ltd has been fined £30,000 for its failure to assemble safe scaffolding following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). In May 2021, the workplace regulator identified serious […] read more

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Brothers fined for failing to protect public from cattle

Two brothers have been sentenced for failing to protect members of the public from their cattle. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Andrew and David Turnbull failed to offer and display signs of an alternative route to a public right of way in their field in the Coalsgarth Valley, North Yorkshire. […] read more

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Farmer jailed after three-year-old child killed by vehicle

Albie Speakman, 3, died in July 2022 after being struck by a telehandler driven by his father. Neil Speakman was sentenced on Friday for failing to ensure Albie’s health and safety. Mr Speakman should have followed HSE guidance, says lead inspector. A farmer has been jailed after he failed to ensure the health and safety […] read more

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