Questions from the Health and Safety Executive:
To what extent can the experience, knowledge, and lessons learned from traditional industries be applied to new and emerging technologies in the energy transition with a view to improving health and safety outcomes?
What are the opportunities and associated benefits of transferring relevant knowledge and skills from hydrocarbon technologies to operators of new and emerging technologies in the energy transition and how might this be best achieved?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is needed to inform when to remove asbestos, ensure the effectiveness of ongoing management, and address changing sources of asbestos exposure in the built environment to reduce and prevent long-term health risks?
What are the behavioural determinants of those exposed to, involved with or managing asbestos, and how can this understanding be applied to ensure effective and safe management of GB's asbestos legacy, using behavioural science approaches such as the COM-B framework?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is needed to inform when to remove asbestos, ensure the effectiveness of ongoing management, and address changing sources of asbestos exposure in the built environment to reduce and prevent long-term health risks?
How can existing and emerging data sources be integrated to inform us about the environments and populations most at risk of asbestos exposure, and to estimate future risks and the burden of mesothelioma?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is needed to inform when to remove asbestos, ensure the effectiveness of ongoing management, and address changing sources of asbestos exposure in the built environment to reduce and prevent long-term health risks?
What are the health impacts of changing asbestos exposure in the environment since the use of amosite (brown asbestos) ended in the early 1980s, including for asbestos removal workers, construction workers, and the wider population not working with asbestos?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is needed to inform when to remove asbestos, ensure the effectiveness of ongoing management, and address changing sources of asbestos exposure in the built environment to reduce and prevent long-term health risks?
How can comprehensive assessment of airborne asbestos levels (before, during and after removal activities), material degradation, and work practices across diverse building environments inform effective asbestos management strategies, including prioritisation of removal and replacement programmes?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can the most relevant health, work and exposure data be utilised and leveraged to develop a compelling case to drive employers towards proactive intervention to reduce work-related ill health?
How can different sources of work-related ill health data (e.g., cases reported by physicians, workers and employers, health research data) be used and integrated to inform prioritisation, monitoring, and evaluation of interventions to reduce work-related ill health
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can the most relevant health, work and exposure data be utilised and leveraged to develop a compelling case to drive employers towards proactive intervention to reduce work-related ill health?
How can innovations in data science (e.g., data mining), analytics (e.g., disease modelling), and measurement technology (e.g., sensors, wearables) be used and integrated to enhance understanding of the relationships between occupation, exposure to hazards, the effectiveness of control measures and work-related ill health?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What strategies and interventions work to prevent work-related ill health and support employer action?
What are the enablers and barriers to effectively reduce exposure to health risk and how can this knowledge be integrated into intervention design to prevent workrelated ill health?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What strategies and interventions work to prevent work-related ill health and support employer action?
How can effective interventions be identified to best support health equity and equality across different groups of workers, including those with health conditions and/or disabilities and/or caring responsibilities?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What strategies and interventions work to prevent work-related ill health and support employer action?
As some individuals may have health conditions that interact with exposures in the workplace: how can interactions between individual health conditions and workplace hazardous exposures be identified to better understand work-related ill health? and; what preventative approaches can employers adopt to address the health risks more holistically?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What are the implications of technological changes on health and safety and how can effective regulation be assured?
How can it be ensured that regulatory regimes and interventions are coherent, effective, proportionate, and agile – enabling effective regulation and providing confidence to industry to innovate?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What are the implications of technological changes on health and safety and how can effective regulation be assured?
How, and in what ways, will Safety Tech maintain or improve risk management? What are the implications of Safety Tech adoption on effective regulation and existing legislative frameworks?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can social change, demographic shifts, hybrid working, the gig economy, and broader work landscape contribute to both opportunities and challenges for workforce safety?
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?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can social change, demographic shifts, hybrid working, the gig economy, and broader work landscape contribute to both opportunities and challenges for workforce safety?
What are the safety implications of changes in working patterns and the way in which work is organised (e.g. fatigue and shift patterns)?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025