Questions from the Health and Safety Executive:
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 is the size and nature of the gig economy? What different models of employment are there, how will this change in different sectors in the future and what are the implications for safety?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can the effectiveness of workplace safety systems be enhanced by analysing data and leveraging insights to identify targeted interventions with impact across short, medium, and long-term perspectives?
How can data and evidence be best used to identify and evaluate interventions that have appropriate and targeted impact on workplace safety systems in the short, medium and long term?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can the effectiveness of workplace safety systems be enhanced by analysing data and leveraging insights to identify targeted interventions with impact across short, medium, and long-term perspectives?
How will the work environment (including new technologies, new materials, changes in work practices and changes in the workforce) significantly change and what are the impacts on workplace safety? How do these changing risks interact and how can they be mitigated?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can the effectiveness of workplace safety systems be enhanced by analysing data and leveraging insights to identify targeted interventions with impact across short, medium, and long-term perspectives?
How can safety systems be improved by effectively linking, utilising and analysing leading and lagging safety data sets, including accident and incident investigation activities?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can it be ensured that our regulatory approach addresses the growing complexity of workplaces, encourages innovation, enhances safety, and avoids unintentional risk amplification, all while minimising regulatory burdens?
How can it be ensured that regulatory reform promotes safe workplace practices and does not introduce or amplify risks?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can it be ensured that our regulatory approach addresses the growing complexity of workplaces, encourages innovation, enhances safety, and avoids unintentional risk amplification, all while minimising regulatory burdens?
Are there alternative regulatory models, interventions and instruments to improve/encourage innovation and improve workplace safety outcomes whilst minimising regulatory burdens?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can it be ensured that our regulatory approach addresses the growing complexity of workplaces, encourages innovation, enhances safety, and avoids unintentional risk amplification, all while minimising regulatory burdens?
What evidence is required to best understand who is responsible and accountable for workplace safety, and what are the outcomes in an increasingly complex landscape, especially for those with multiple employment?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How is climate change currently affecting the health and safety of workers, building users and communities, and what methods can be employed to best assess its evolving impact on the healthy and safe operation of residential and industrial assets?
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?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How is climate change currently affecting the health and safety of workers, building users and communities, and what methods can be employed to best assess its evolving impact on the healthy and safe operation of residential and industrial assets?
What are the main health and safety challenges related to maintenance and repair of ageing low carbon energy infrastructure, such as offshore wind turbines?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How is climate change currently affecting the health and safety of workers, building users and communities, and what methods can be employed to best assess its evolving impact on the healthy and safe operation of residential and industrial assets?
What is the effect of climate change on the safe operation of industrial assets and what are the best methods to determine the effect?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How is climate change currently affecting the health and safety of workers, building users and communities, and what methods can be employed to best assess its evolving impact on the healthy and safe operation of residential and industrial assets?
To what extent is climate change affecting health and safety of workers and communities and how is this expected to change over time?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What risks are associated with the shift towards a decentralised energy landscape, and how might this impact health and safety outcomes?
What are the health and safety challenges associated with growing industries including the retrofitting of domestic and commercial buildings; climate adaptation, installation of low carbon heat solutions and installation of electrical infrastructure for electric vehicles?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What risks are associated with the shift towards a decentralised energy landscape, and how might this impact health and safety outcomes?
What are the human factors and their potential impacts in the safe and effective operation of a new energy system and how can they be effectively understood?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What risks are associated with the shift towards a decentralised energy landscape, and how might this impact health and safety outcomes?
What are the risks associated with the new energy landscape and how could they be best controlled? What new hazards arise from how new energy systems are integrated and controlled? Do co-located technologies pose new hazards and risks?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
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?
How can designers, consultants and manufacturers contribute to incorporating improvements in occupational health and safety when considering design of new technologies?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
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 methods and information are needed to learn from early adopters of new technologies globally, including understanding health and safety failures?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How does the changing working environment impact both the way people work and their overall health in workplace environments?
What are the opportunities and risks to workers’ health from future changes in technology, and the way in which workers interact with these new technologies (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Net Zero technologies), and what can be done to mitigate any potential harmful health impacts?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
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 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?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025