Who are health and safety executive?

The Health and Safety Executive is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions that employees around 3500 people.

They are the regulatory body in Britain tasked with upholding and enforcing legislation and ensuring business compliance such as health and safety training that helps minimise work related deaths, ill-health and injuries.

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