HSE documentation

Operators of floating roof tanks should have a system in place to manage water drains appropriately to ensure precautions have been taken to prevent loss of containment incidents. HSE document Drainage of floating roof tanks SPC/Enforcement/163 provides additional guidance on this topic. 

An HSE document demonstrates that accident costs can amotmt to 37% of annual profits, 8.5% of tender prices or 5% of the running costs of the organisations studied. 

A PES is a computer-based system which controls, protects or monitors the operation of plant or machinery [HSE 87]. This HSE document also reiterates that when assessing the safety of PES, as in any system, the first stage is to identify the hazards and the chain of events that could lead to those hazards. This is called the Hazard Analysis. The estimation of the frequency with which the consequences of specified hazardous events occurs is called Risk Assessment, and is used to judge the acceptability of a system. 

Inquiries with respect to health and safety at the workplace should be directed to the local area office of the HSE or the local authority s Environmental Health Department. The name of the authority responsible for the health and safety in the organization should be displayed prominently within the premises on the poster Health and Safety Law, What You Should Know. This poster gives a brief guide to health and safety law and specific details on key points must be obtained from the relevant legislative documents. 

The design assessments and basis of safety must be recorded and available for consultation, and the process must be operated as required. The operating phase involves two sets of process documentation—the detailed technical documentation, and safe operating instructions (HSE 2000) for every operational phase, including startup, shutdown, maintenance and emergency operations. 

Department of Health. Health Survey for England Cardiovascular Disease 98. ed. B. Erens and P. Primatesta, 1999. The Stationery Office, Norwich, UK epub http //www.archive.official documents.co.uk/document/doh/survey98/ hse-OO.htm... 

Health and Safety Executive Bromoch-loromethane-Risk Assessment Document, pp 1-113. Sudbury, UK, HSE Books, 2000... 

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). 

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 ... 

At present, there is no official guidance defining what percentage of asbestos in soil would constitute a health risk and how this figure might depend upon the asbestos type, product, material, friability or moisture content etc. However, the UK HSE is also reviewing the test methods for asbestos materials in contaminated land and may provide additional guidance as part of this future documentation. 

HSC (2002) Consultative Document CD181 Issued February 2002 Published by HSE (Health and Safety Executive) Books (UK). 

All but two of the respondents to the Discussion Document were supportive of one or other of these two proposals. HSE concluded fiom its analysis of responses and of additional views received during its efforts to disseminate and discuss material on these issues that there was overwhelming support for a single limit system that was coupled to good advice on controlling chemicals (HSC 2003 9). 

There were 58 re omes received. According to the HSE s analysis only two did not support eitiicr the second or third proposal (HSC 2003). See also ht //www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/hsc/iacs/2111024>aper43.pdf for the full analysis of die rcspoiKes to the Discussion Document. 

On the question of enforcement the Considtati Document mferred to the current forcemeat steate of the HSE for health and safety issues generally. It drew attention to the HSC eirfoix mmt policy statement setting out the principles inspectors should ply when determining what enforcem t action to take in... 

See for exanq)le the Consultative Document on this strategy (HSE 2004a) and the HSE statement on providing accessible advice and support , www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/plans/ index/htm. 

HSC (2002). Discussion Document on Occupational Exposure Limits (OEL) Framework, Sudbury HSE Books. 

HSC (2002a). COSHH enforcement and the mle of OELs, Annex 4 Discussion Doctanent on Occupational Exposure Limits (OEL) fiwnework. Discussion Document, Chemical Ri Assessment Unit, HSE, London. 

HSC (2003). Proposals to introduce a new occupational exposure limits (OEL) framework. Consultative Document, Sudbury HSE Books. 

HSE (2004a). Regulation and recognition towards good performance in health and safety. Consultative Document, HSE Bootle. 

To explore the relationships between parent and transformation product eco-toxicity to earthworms, data were collated on the acute ecotoxicity to earthworms for pesticides and their transformation products. These were acute, generally 14 d, LC50 data and were collected from pesticide evaluation documents of the UK PSD and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) [ 11 ], US EPA [8], EU [9,10], the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) [21] and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) [22]. Collated data were supplemented by data collated by the EU SEEM project [17]. Ultimately this provided 142 comparisons between pesticides and their transformation products. 

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