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Codes of Practice approved by the UK Health and Safety Commission (HMSO)... 

M. Darvill, Update on European Occupational Safety and Health Issues and the UK, Paper presented at the UK Health and Safety Commission Meeting, 2005, HSC/05/106. 

Contains over 180 000 citations to the worldwide literature on occupational health and safety. Includes physical, chemical, and medical hazards. Covers all UK Health and Safety Commission and Health and Safety Executive publications and a wide range of journals, conference papers, reports, and legislation (United Kingdom). Produced by the Health and Safety Executive, United Kingdom (Data-Star, ORBIT ... 

The UK Health and Safety Commission (1993) quotes the following definition in many of its documents, which was originally provided by the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations. It succinctly captures the essential features ... 

In a recent document, the UK Health and Safety Commission defines two classes of lead worker those whose exposure is considered significant and those whose is not [17]. Exposure is considered significant if workers are exposed to (a) levels of airborne lead which are liable to be in excess of one half of the industrial hygiene standard (see later), (b) a substantial risk of ingesting lead or (c) any risk of skin contact with concentrated lead alkyls. Work which is regarded as significant appears in Table 5.11 and that which is insignificant is in Table 5.12. 

Health and Safety Commission, UK. 1978. Measurement and Monitoring of Asbestos in Air, Second report by the advisory committee on Asbestos. London Crown Publishers. 

The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HASAWA) is an enabling Act from which most other relevant UK legislation stems. The Act lays down broad principles which are developed in detail in the form of Regulations or Approved Codes of Practice. The Act established the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) as an overseeing body representing employers, trade unions, local authorities and independents. The Act also created the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as the executive arm of the Commission. 

In 2003 the UK Health and Safety Executive estimated that almost half of the primary causes for control system failures lay with inadequate specifications (Ref 2). Other key causes were changes made after commissioning, overly optimistic reliance on single channel systems, failure to verify software and poor consideration of human issues. These are systematic failures. 

At the time of writing, discussion has been initiated by the Health and Safety Commission about the extent to which stress should be regulated. Its Discussion Document contains a very useful review of knowledge and opinion on the subject, and the reader interested in pursuing the subject will find this a useful starting point. It is available on the HSE website at http //www.open.gov.uk/hse/condocs/. 

Health and Safety Commission (1995) Managing construction for health and safety Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 Approved Code of Practice. London Health and Safety Executive, and Joyce, R (1995) The CDM Regulations explained. UK Thomas Telford Services Ltd. 

The database covers the United Kingdom Health and Safety Commission and the Safety Executives publications, and also books, reports, translations, standard specifications, guidance, conference proceedings, decided cases, legislation in the UK and elsewhere relevant to health and safety at work. In addition, approximately 250 national and international periodicals are abstracted. Half of the references are from periodical publications. 

HSE (Health and Safety Commission/Executive, UK) (1991) Major Hazardous Aspects of the Transport of Dangerous Substances. Report of Advisory Committee on Dangerous Substances, Health and Safety Executive, UK, London, HMSQ. 

During 1999, the European Commission ARIBA project attempted to build an accident risk tolerability matrix for air traffic operations on UK Health and Safety Executive lines. The main reason for this was due to the fact that UK industry safety assessments usually use the HSE studies and guidelines about tolerable and acceptable risk , with the following (simplified) HSE definitions ... 

In the United Kingdom an advisory committee was set up by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to review the problem and recommend procedures for the control of these sites, HSE (1976, 1979). Subsequently, a series of directives and amendments on this subject were issued by the European Economic Commission (EEC), and the EEC directives were implemented in the UK by the publication of the Control of Major Industrial Accident Hazards Regulations, 1984 (the CIMAH regulations). 

Commission oe the European Communities (1978) Criteria (dose-effect relationships) for cadmium. Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK (Report of the Working Group of Experts prepared for the CEC, Directorate-General for Social Affairs, Health and Safety Directorate, Luxembourg. 

International Electrotechnical Commission. International standard lEC 61508 functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety related systems. Geneva 2000. Health and Safety Executive. Controlling the risks in the workplace. [Online]. 2015 [cited 2015 July. Available from http //www.hse.gov.uk/risk/controlling-risks.htm. 

European Commission-Implementation of the directive on major accident hazards of certain industrial activities. Article 19 review of annexes 1,2,3-proposed by UK on SULPHUR TRIOXIDE (1985), Health and Safety Executive, 25 Chapel Street, London NWl. 

The Commission of the European Communities, Belgium The Health and Safety Executive, UK Arbejdstilsynet, Denmark... 

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