OSHA (US): the Focus Four & the UK Equivalent

The OSHA is the US standard — the 29 CFR. The guide is the three articles: the focus four (the fatal four — the falls, the struck-by, the electrocution, the caught-in or between — and the controls), OSHA in the UK (the UK equivalent — the HSE and the HSWA 1974), and OSHA vs UK HSE (the two systems side by side — the regulator, the law, the standard, the enforcement). The three are the OSHA — and the OSHA is the US standard.

The three articles, in the order to read them: the OSHA focus four is the fatal four hazards and the controls. The OSHA in the UK is the UK equivalent — the HSE and the HSWA 1974. And the OSHA vs UK HSE is the two systems side by side.

Every guide on this page is written the same way: the working method first, the example that holds, and the mistake that fails the review. The professional version — the sign-off, the audit, the training — runs through umer-hse.pro.

The OSHA is the US standard, and the UK is not OSHA — the UK equivalent is the HSE and the HSWA 1974. The guide runs the three pieces: the Focus Four (the fatal four hazards and the controls), the OSHA in the UK (what the UK equivalent actually is), and the comparison (the two systems side by side, the regulation against the regulation).

The Focus Four is the US killing list: the falls, the electrocution, the struck-by, the caught-in-between — the four that take the lives, and the controls that take them off the list. The UK equivalent is the HSE enforcement on the HSWA, and the comparison shows where the two systems agree (the hierarchy, the assessment, the reporting) and where they split (the number, the deadline, the enforcement).

The guide is the preparation for the person who works on both sides of the Atlantic; the audit and the compliance work run through umer-hse.pro.

• The Focus Four: the falls, the electrocution, the struck-by, the caught-in-between
• The UK is not OSHA — the equivalent is the HSE and the HSWA 1974
• The comparison: the regulation against the regulation
• The guide is for the person who works on both sides of the Atlantic