HSE Health and Safety Executive

Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Risk Criteria for Land-Use Planning in the Vicinity of Major Industrial Hazards, London HMSO, 1989. 

More recently, in the middle 1990s, the UK s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) also reviewed the push-pull system. Hollis and Fletcher offer a comprehensive literature review on push-pull ventilation and note that the main conclusions of previous work on push-pull ventilation of tanks are that the control is primarily supplied by the inlet jet, forming a wall jet along the surface of the tank, and that the main purpose of the exhaust hood is to remove the air and contaminant contained within the push jet. 

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. 

Unfortunately, deaths occur every year in industry due to accidents that are preventable. Accidents are more likely to occur where firms are under pressure to meet targets, and safety measures tend to be ignored. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) was set up to administer the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974 and incorporates... 

In practice it has been agreed that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will operate as the de facto competent authority and that new Regulations will be made under the Health Safety at Work etc. Act and the European Communies Act - the Biocidal Products Regulations (BPR). 

In the United Kingdom the use of substances likely to be harmful to employees is covered by regulations issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), under the Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974 (HSAWA). The principal set of regulations in force is the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations, 2002 known under the acronym the COSHH regulations. The COSHH regulations apply to any hazardous substance in use in any place of work. 

The explosion and fires at the Texaco Refinery, Milford Haven, Wales, 24 July 1994. Reference Health and Safety Executive (HSE) HSE Books, Her Majesty s Stationary Office, Norwich, England, 1997. 

The flame came from a process vessel, the "60 still base," used for the batch distillation of organics, which was being raked out to remove semisolid residues, or sludge. Prior to this, heat had been applied to the residue for three hours through an internal steam coil. The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation concluded that this had started self-heating of the residue and that the resultant runaway reaction led to ignition of evolved vapors and to the jet flame. 

Analysis of Esso Longford as well as analysis in the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation report into petrochemical complex major incidents all show that common underlying causes are often repeated. The Longford incident clearly illustrates the multiple root cause concept. A number of PSM system failures occurred either in... 

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a statutory body co-ordinated by a Director General and two other people appointed by the Executive. 

An indication of the hazard associated with the use of a toxic material in the form of a vapour or dispersed dust is given by a limit value. The threshold limit value (TLV, expressed as p.p.m. or mg m-3) represents a level under which it is believed nearly all workers may be repeatedly exposed to on a day-to-day basis without adverse effect. These values are up-dated annually and recommended by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH).12 Since 1984, in the UK, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has adopted two types of limits, but only for those compounds which are available and used in the UK.13 These are the recommended limit (RL, as p.p.m. or mg m 3) which represents good practice and realistic levels for the degree of exposure, and the control limit (CL, as p.p.m. or mg m 3) which is applied to the relatively smaller number of substances having unusually serious toxic effects. 

Workplace exposure limits (WELs) were adopted in the UK in 2005 to replace maximum exposure limits (MELs) and occupational exposnre standards (OESs). Workplace exposure limits—longterm exposnre limits (eight-hour time-weighted average exposures) and short-term exposme limits (hfteen-minnte time-weighted average exposmes)—are set by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and pnblished in document EH40 (http //www.hse.gov.uk/coshh/tablel.pdf). 

---