While some have been well publicised, these objectives include:
- reduce work-related ill health, with a specific focus on mental health and stress;
- increase and maintain trust to ensure people feel safe where they live, where they work, and in their environment;
- enable industry to innovate safely to prevent major incidents, supporting the move towards net zero;
- maintain Great Britain’s record as one of the safest countries to work in; and
- ensure HSE is a great place to work, and we attract and retain exceptional people.
For each, a series of KPIs have been set and performance YTD indicated. For example, under the first bullet point above, two of the KPIs are:
- Deliver 14,000 proactive inspections; and
- Inspections on broad health priorities, covering topics such as noise-induced hearing loss; musculoskeletal disorders; health surveillance; asbestos duty to manage; hazardous dusts (including silica and wood dust) (8,000).
A link to the full report is - HSE KPIs report for 2025 to 2026 - GOV.UK
With less than 2 months to go and if they are going to make target particularly in these areas, we should be expecting to see a flurry of HSE inspection activity between now and the end of March 2026.
Will also be interesting to see what the topics and KPIs are for 2026/27.