HSE calls for sensible risk management

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has stressed the need for sensible risk management in the health and safety debate. Speaking at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Safety and Health at Work congress, Vic Coleman, HSE’s head of planning, efficiency and finance, discussed the trivial issues that are used to undermine the risk debate, the trade-off’s that need to be made to ensure health and safety doesn’t become a burden, and how seeking to eliminate all risks is neither practical nor desirable.