Health and Safety Executive Information

The HSE/IS produces annually a list of over 1600 titles taken within its Information Service entitled Health and Safety Executive Information Service Current Periodicals List . This lists the current title, former title(s), and frequency of publication. A companion volume entitled Subject Index to the HSE Current Periodical List gives under an alphabetical subject heading a list of relevant magazines. Both are available free of charge from the Health and Safety Executive, Information Centre, Broad Lane, Sheffield S3 7HQ, England. 

As searches are carried out for OSH information, some of the references found may be in languages other than English but which may have been translated. Many organizations need to have translations made of articles in periodicals, reports and even chapters of books. The Health and Safety Executive Information Service is a prolific source of translations, producing about 700+ a . These translations are all deposited with the British... 

Health and Safety Executive Information Sheet, Organisational Change and Major Accident Hazards, CHIS7, Castleford, 2003... 

HSE. 1996a. Offshore Accident and Incident Statistics Report 1996, Ref. OTO 96 955. UK Health and Safety Executive Information Centre, Sheffield. 

Health and Safety Executive, Information Services, Caerphilly Business Park, Caerphilly, South Wales, CF83 3GG 0845 345 0055 or any local offices of the HSE... 

Health and safety information can be obtained from the following Health and Safety Executive offices ... 

Numerous leaflets can be obtained from the local offices of the Health and Safety Executive or HSE Information Points. Remember, if you have any doubts about the health and safety risks involved with respect to any substance you may consider using, or any work you are planning to undertake, seek advice. This information may be obtained from your company safety officer, consultants, manufac-turer/supplier or equipment/materiaPsubstance, HSE or local Environmental Health Officer. Use their expertise and knowledge. Do not be a statistic. 

This information sheet from the Health and Safety Executive summaries the health hazards that can arise from exposure to styrene. It provides practical advance to FRP manufacturers on how to assess and control styrene levels in the workplace and how these control measures should be monitored and maintained in accordance with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002. The document applies mainly to contact moulding processes, and aims to define what level of control is currently recognised as being reasonably practicable. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY EUROPEAN UNION UK WESTERN EUROPE... 

Major Hazard Incident Data Service (MHIDAS) Health and Safety Executive, United Kingdom (HSE) Retrieved information... 

Published by AEA Technology on behalf of the UK Health and Safety Executive, this database is an excellent resource for querying incident information. The service is available on CD-ROM, or online. 

One documented method uses process safety barriers identification for metrics selection. This concept uses a combination of lagging and leading indicators associated with process safety barriers and incident escalation controls to evaluate the process safety system performance. The basis for this method is documented in the U.K. Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publication HSG254 and illustrated by Figures 4.1-4.3. The strength of this technique arises from using the combination of indicators that provides multiple perspectives for judging the surety of a barrier or escalation control. For example, this basic concept was adopted and modified by BP to focus upon three information sources to assess key control barriers as summarized below ... 

Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Chemicals Manufacturer and Storage— Information Web site, http //www.hse.gov.uk/chemicals/information.htm Hopkins, A Thinking About Process Safety Indicators, Safety Science, Vol. 47, No. 4, 2009. 

Combines six databases with references to the world s literature on occupational health and safety and environmental medicine. Consists of CISDOC (CIS Abstracts by the International Labour Office), HSELine (from the Health and Safety Executive in the UK), MHIDAS (from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), NIOSHTIC and NIOSHTIC-2 (from the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health), RILOSH Index (from the Ryer-son Polytechnic University Library, Canada) and MEDLINE-OEM (occupational and environmental medicine subset from the National Library of Medicine, US). Available from Silver Platter Information, Inc. updated quarterly. 

The first element in risk assessment is knowledge of the chemical exposures of a workforce to see if a known sensitizer is present. A chemical becomes accepted as a cause of occupational asthma if there are at least two convincing clinical case reports from independent centres. Specialist clinicians are likely to be aware of the published literature at an early stage and may be a useful source of informal information. There is currently much interest in publishing lists of sensitizers. One is available in a recent textbook (Chan-Yeung and Malo, 1993). The Health and Safety Executive in the UK, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in the USA and other agencies may publish lists with updates. Other sources of information on causes are reporting schemes such as SWORD (Surveillance of Work-related and Occupational Respiratory Disease) in the UK (Ross el al., 1995) and SENSOR (Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risks) in some states in the USA (Matte et al., 1990). 

Under the Classification and Labelling Directive, manufacturers or importers of a new chemical must notify the competent authority of the relevant Member State. In the United Kingdom, the competent authority is the Health and Safety Executive along with the Department of the Environment. As of 1993, EC Directives on dangerous substances and preparations wiU be implemented in the United Kingdom means of the Chemicals (Hazard Information and P kaging) Regulations (CHIP) [5]. 

Jones, T.A. Organic Semiconductor Gas Sensors, Technical Information Note No 8, Health and Safety Executive, Sheffield, S3 7HQ. 

The HSW Act also established the Health and Safety Commission with responsibility for publishing specific health and safety regulations and the Health and Safety Executive which enforces the Act by means of an inspectorate with extensive powers that can lead to prosecution. It allows all employees rights to be represented, meaning that in all schools there will be a designated safety representative who has the right to receive appropriate training and access to information, release from timetable and time out of school to carry out their duties. These include ... 

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