Questions from the Health and Safety Executive:
What evidence is needed to inform how we regulate future technological developments, and the emergence of new industrial sectors to optimise safety in design and operation?
What other new or emerging innovations might have implications for the safety of building users that merit further consideration, e.g. Artificial Intelligence?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is needed to inform how we regulate future technological developments, and the emergence of new industrial sectors to optimise safety in design and operation?
What evidence is needed to ensure that technological advancements serve to maintain or improve existing levels of safety and health and do not present additional risks (either immediate or latent)?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is needed to inform how we regulate future technological developments, and the emergence of new industrial sectors to optimise safety in design and operation?
What evidence is needed to enable the safe and rapid introduction of new and emerging technologies, the use of novel materials and new manufacturing processes in, for example, energy.
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can it be ensured that GB’s evolving industrial landscape and the built environment doesn’t lead to a higher likelihood of major health and safety incidents?
How do operational fusion power plants compare in risk profile to more traditional industrial installations?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can it be ensured that GB’s evolving industrial landscape and the built environment doesn’t lead to a higher likelihood of major health and safety incidents?
What are the appropriate controls and mitigations that need to be built into new carbon capture infrastructure?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can it be ensured that GB’s evolving industrial landscape and the built environment doesn’t lead to a higher likelihood of major health and safety incidents?
What research is needed to support new industries such as CCUS, hydrogen etc., to ensure that the risks to workers and the public are kept as low as reasonably practicable?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can it be ensured that GB’s evolving industrial landscape and the built environment doesn’t lead to a higher likelihood of major health and safety incidents?
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?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can it be ensured that our regulatory approach to chemicals accommodates future changes?
What are the new methods of determining and managing risk being developed and what is their potential impact on regulatory assessments carried out for chemicals? How might these new methods be evaluated and introduced into assessments to increase efficiency and effectiveness of that work whilst ensuring maximum benefits to society?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can it be ensured that our regulatory approach to chemicals accommodates future changes?
What methodologies are there to ensure that there is sufficient evidence to support an effective and efficient approach to regulatory policy and risk assessment e.g. for the management of existing, new and emerging health risks from chemicals and to enable the safe and sustainable use of chemicals?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can HSE ensure that our regulatory approach in the built environment is fit for purpose for the future?
Are there significant implications for building users’ and construction workers’ health and safety arising from carbon reduction involving: retrofitting domestic and commercial buildings; constructing, altering or decommissioning high hazard infrastructure/plants; low carbon heat solutions; zero emission vehicles and plant; reduced carbon materials; climate adaption to existing buildings and infrastructure?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can HSE ensure that our regulatory approach in the built environment is fit for purpose for the future?
Are there significant implications for construction worker health and safety arising from widespread adoption across this diverse sector of: Modern Methods of Construction (MMC); AI, inherently safer design principles, Autonomy and the Internet of Things; Robotics; Advanced materials and additive manufacturing?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is available to improve the health, safety and environmental standard of buildings, and protect building users
What are the building safety implications of widespread adoption (including retrofitting) across the built environment from renewable energy and energy storage solutions within/in close proximity to occupied buildings? This includes battery storage, electric vehicles and personal light electric vehicles.
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is available to improve the health, safety and environmental standard of buildings, and protect building users
How can health resilience be supported through building standards including aspects such as moisture control, ventilation and sanitation for infection control?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is available to improve the health, safety and environmental standard of buildings, and protect building users
How can BSR ensure the needs of future building users are reflected in current standards and guidance to improve and maintain safety and standards long-term, including considering the impact that an ageing population and changes to lifestyles, societal norms and ways of working may have on the extent to which current standards and guidance are fit for purpose?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is available to improve the health, safety and environmental standard of buildings, and protect building users
What are the building safety implications of widespread adoption (including retrofitting) across the built environment of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) including Volumetric Modular Construction, advanced materials and additive manufacturing? What are the building safety implications for structural and fire safety arising from emerging new developments such as Light Gauge Steel Frames (LGSF), Thermally Modified Timber and Cross Laminate Timber?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is available to improve the health, safety and environmental standard of buildings, and protect building users
What lessons might translate from the management of ageing assets in the major hazards sector to help dutyholders build and maintain safe buildings, addressing aspects such as human factors, safety management systems and fire and structural safety?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025