Guidance note

Health and Safety Executive, Monitoring Strategies for Toxic Substances, Guidance Note EH 42, HSE, Boode, Meseyside, U.K., 1989. 

Guidance Note EH40/96, Occupational Exposure Limits, Health and Safety Executive, Her Majesty s Stationery Office, London, 1996. 

An assessment package is a tool within a system. It can provide assessment forms, guidance notes and scoring guidelines to conduct an evaluation of a toller s quality/safety system. This sample uses assessment forms to evaluate fourteen components. The results are then compiled in the evaluation summary. The evaluation summary is the basis for a report back to the toller and for mutual discussion... 

Lloyds Register of Shipping, Guidance Notes on Application of Cathodic Protection, London 1966. 

It can be seen from Table 4.3 that there is no positive or foolproof way of determining the distributional parameters useful in probabilistic design, although the linear rectification method is an efficient approach (Siddal, 1983). The choice of ranking equation can also affect the accuracy of the calculated distribution parameters using the methods described. Reference should be made to the guidance notes given in this respect. 

OES, OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE STANDARD (uk) The Concentration of an airborne substance (averaged over a reference period) at which, according to current knowledge, there is no evidence that it is likely to be injurious to employees if they are exposed by inhalation, day after day. (Specified by HSC in Guidance Note EH40.)... 

HS(Rjl Packaging and labelling of dangerous substances. Regulations and guidance notes... 

Reference should be made to Threshold Limit Values, Guidance Note EHl7/78, issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), or Industrial Ventilation (American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists). In all cases, proposals should be reviewed by and submitted to the relevant local authority agencies. 

This Committee published its own technical rules, many of which were later incorporated into British Standards. It continues to make an active contribution to standards, guidance notes, legislation and international policy on inspection. Some independent inspection bodies have no connection with insurance but many do, and these companies have the advantage of feedback from an analysis of insurance claims. 

The person who carries out the examination is the competent person , although this term may also be used in a corporate sense. One very concise description of the competent person, which originated in a law case, is he must know what to look for and how to recognize it when he sees it . This has been expanded both officially and unofficially, and a current guidance note on this subject is paraphrased as follows ... 

It is additionally recommended in the British Gas publication Guidance Notes on the Installation of Gas Pipework, Boosters and Compressors in Customers Premises (lM/16) that for buildings containing plant over 2 MW total heat input and being supplied with gas at pressures above 1 bar, a remotely operable valve shall be fitted in the gas supply to the building. In the case of large boiler houses, provision for remote operation of the valves shall be provided both inside and outside the building. 

In the particular case of oxygen, valves shall be resistant to exposure for up to 12 h at all pressures up to 2 bar at 20° C. Requirements for non-return valves for oxygen are also discussed in the British Gas publication Guidance Notes on the Use of Oxygen in Industrial Gas Fired Plant and Working Flame Burners (lM/1). 

Guidance Note CS4, The keeping of LPG in cylinders and similar containers... 

Guidance Note HS(R)21, A guide to the Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1984... 

HMIP publish sets of Guidance Notes, which relate to activities they control. These notes are known as Best Practicable Means (BPM) Notes. BPM is explained in Note BPM 1/88, Best Practicable Means. General Principles and Practices. Copies of these notes may be obtained from the Department of the Environment Publications Sales Unit, Building 1, Victoria Road, South Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 ONZ, telephone 020 8841 3425. 

In designing the asset register format for the specific location items such as manufacturer/supplier, purchase price and date, order no., cost code, function, parts/spares, guidance note reference and insurance inspections should be catered for. While carrying out the survey for the asset register, all the information found on plant and equipment nameplates should be recorded as, during their life, these tend to be lost or painted over. 

The guidance notes can be produced either as a composite handbook containing task instmctions for all types of plant and equipment for each trade group, or as specific task/advice notes for each asset of the service requirements of the plant equipment. When used, the handbook method provides the necessary work instructions for all similar types of plant and equipment throughout the location. This method of operation reduces the number of task/advice notes issued and therefore the system s workload, as well as the demands placed on the administration of the system. Either method eliminates the requirement of entering work instmctions, etc. on the work docket/advice notes before they are issued. 

To enable the maximum input and experience of the craftsmen to be introduced into the system the pages of the handbook should not be encapsulated thereby enabling the craftsman to enter additional information and comments that could increase the performance of the plant and equipment as well as amended instmctions in the guidance notes. These amendments can then be issued to all staff in a similar trade. 

Planned maintenance can reduce the demand for highly experienced craftsmen in that, if the instructions issued in work docket and advice/guidance notes are adequate, a less-skilled person should be able to perform the work task correctly. It follows that adequate training must be provided to ensure that, irrespective of the degree of the operative s skills and experience, the work task given will be carried out to the required standard. 

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