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The '''Health and Safety Executive''' ('''HSE''') is a UK government agency responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of [[occupational safety and health|workplace health, safety and welfare]], and for research into occupational [[risk]]s in [[Great Britain]]. It is a [[non-departmental public body]] of the [[United Kingdom]] with its headquarters in [[Bootle]], England.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/maps/index.htm |title=HSE offices |publisher=Health & Safety Executive |accessdate=2012-04-07}}</ref> In [[Northern Ireland]], these duties lie with the [[Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland]]. The HSE was created by the [[Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974]], and has since absorbed earlier regulatory bodies such as the Factory Inspectorate and the [[Railway Inspectorate]] though the Railway Inspectorate was transferred to the [[Office of Rail and Road]] in April 2006.<ref name="HSE Timeline">{{cite web |last1=Health and Safety Executive |title=The history of HSE |url=http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/timeline/index.htm |website=hse.gov.uk |accessdate=11 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130120334/http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/timeline/index.htm |archive-date=30 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref> The HSE is sponsored by the [[Department for Work and Pensions]]. As part of its work, HSE investigates industrial accidents, small and large, including major incidents such as the explosion and fire at [[2005 Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire|Buncefield]] in 2005. Though it formerly reported to the [[Health and Safety Commission]], on 1 April 2008, the two bodies merged.<ref>{{cite web |date=1 April 2008 |title=Health and Safety Commission and Health and Safety Executive merge to form a single regulatory body |author=Department for Work and Pensions |url=
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