Questions from the Health and Safety Executive:
How do the diverse construction and building safety sectors build and enhance competence and skills within their sector, ensuring engagement and commitment from employees?
What are the effective ways to ensure construction workers, designers and building owners (particularly in small businesses) are appropriately engaged with and competent in relevant health and safety matters?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How do the diverse construction and building safety sectors build and enhance competence and skills within their sector, ensuring engagement and commitment from employees?
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?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How do the diverse construction and building safety sectors build and enhance competence and skills within their sector, ensuring engagement and commitment from employees?
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?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can regulatory assurance and impact be demonstrated to help secure compliance and positive outcomes?
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)?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can regulatory assurance and impact be demonstrated to help secure compliance and positive outcomes?
What data, including statistics and other information does the BSR already have access to across its and stakeholders’ operations as well as publicly accessible and what is the potential for these to be used to inform regulatory assurance and impact?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How can regulatory assurance and impact be demonstrated to help secure compliance and positive outcomes?
What metrics provide the best leading indicators for building safety and construction health and safety performance at both an industry and project-specific level?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How does the changing working environment impact both the way people work and their overall health in workplace environments?
How will changes in working practices, such as increased hybrid and homeworking, growth of the gig economy, peripatetic industries, and changes in the demographics of the workforce, affect work-related ill health; and what can be done to mitigate the adverse impacts on workers’ health?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
How does the changing working environment impact both the way people work and their overall health in workplace environments?
How can new health hazards and their risks be identified before they impact workplace health, and how can the strength of the evidence and the speed at which they may require action be assessed?
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?
What is the occupational health profile of the GB workforce and how do different work (e.g. trade/tasks) and demographic factors contribute to this?
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?
What are the impacts and consequences of work-related ill health on individuals, employers and society, including human costs, costs of ill health, and effects on productivity and employment?
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 workplace exposure and controls intelligence from HSE and industry be enhanced to track trends over time in exposure to respiratory hazards and control measures, with an initial focus on Respiratory Crystalline Silica (RCS) and Asbestos?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What strategies and interventions work to prevent work-related ill health and support employer action?
What interventions and workplace controls can employers use to successfully prevent, design out, identify early or reduce work-related ill health, considering the range of working practices in GB, and how can their impact be evaluated over time to support ongoing improvements?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is needed to inform how we regulate in the future to optimise impact and reduce the ill-health caused by work-related stress and mental ill health?
What contribution and impact does work-related physical ill health make to work-related stress or poor work-related mental health?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is needed to inform how we regulate in the future to optimise impact and reduce the ill-health caused by work-related stress and mental ill health?
How do organisations such as companies, occupational health providers or other medical professionals identify work-related factors when determining if an individual is experiencing work-related stress, and managing those factors appropriately?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025
What evidence is needed to inform how we regulate in the future to optimise impact and reduce the ill-health caused by work-related stress and mental ill health?
What effect does violence and aggression in the workplace have on the health of workers, particularly in terms of causing and aggravating common mental ill health problems such as work-related stress, anxiety and depression and what controls can be put in place to reduce these risks?
Health and Safety Executive, 2025