Hazardous Installation Directorate

HSE (2007) Key Programme 3 Asset Integrity Programme A Report of the Offshore Division of the HSE s Hazardous Installations Directorate. Health and Safety Executive London. 

HSE (2004) Hazardous installations directorate—offshore division fire and explosion strategy, Issue 1... 

Hazardous Installations Directorate, Offshore Injury and Incident Statistics 2000/2001 (Provisional Data), Health and Safety Executive, Hazardous Installations Directorate, Offshore Division, Table 6. 

Head of Chemical Industries Division Hazardous Installations Directorate Health and Safety Executive... 

Commercial explosives are subject to the Explosives Act 1875 which is enforced by the HSE s Hazardous Installations Directorate for factories and magazines, by local authorities for explosive stores (up to 2 tons) and for registered premises for retail sale. All such premises are licensed. Similar controls apply to military explosives which are enforced by the Ministry of Defence. The Act requires precautions to be taken to prevent accidental ignition, which is interpreted by the enforcement authorities to mean the use of explosion-protected installations similar to those in other industries with flammable hazards, together with efficient lightning protection and stringent antistatic measures. 

Riser Safety in UK Waters-Lessons from Mumbai High North Disaster, Report No. SPG/Technical/OSD/33, Hazardous Installations Directorate, Health and Safety Executive, London, May 2006. 

This is not the only follow-up. The fireworks disaster led to a Directorate of External Safety being established at the then Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, and to the installation of an Advisory Council on Hazardous Substances and a National Expertise Centre for External Safety. 

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