HSE has warned companies of their duty to protect employees working with chemicals after two workers were burnt at
Category: Chemicals
17th meeting of the WATCH sub-committee - 10 November 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
The agenda has been published for the 17th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances Working Group on Action to Control Chemicals (ACTS WATCH) sub-committee,
Hazards XXI – Process safety and environmental protection
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Three-day symposium and exhibition 9–12 November, Manchester. The event will include a variety of workshops and several speakers from HSE will be presenting,
The Safe Isolation of Plant & Equipment workshop - Bootle
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Following on from a successful initiative in the Midlands, HSE are holding a free workshop 4 November, Bootle Merseyside, covering the Safe Mechanical Isolation of Plant and Equipment.
Corrosion fatigue failure of tubes in water tube boilers
Monday, September 7, 2009
Chemicals Industries Division of HSE is aware of three relatively recent failures associated with water tube boilers.
Warehousing chemicals safely - storing packaged dangerous substances
Monday, August 17, 2009
This book will help you keep chemicals and other dangerous substances in your warehouse safe and comply with the law, whatever the size of your storage facility.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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COSHH - case studies
Friday, August 7, 2009
Examples of real life situations with Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH).
MALDI/TOF/MS analysis of isocyanates and other hazardous workplace chemicals
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Mass spectrometry is the most widely used analytical detector in forensic science,industry and research.
Judith Hackitt responds EU radiation directive article
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The HSE Chair has responded to article in The Daily Telegraph titled ‘Business hopes Government will see the light on EU
The Chemicals Regulations 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
A transposition note on ‘The Chemicals (Hazard Information And Packaging For Supply) Regulations 2009′
COSHH - Working with substances hazardous to health
Friday, July 24, 2009
This leaflet describes how to control hazardous substances at work so that they do not cause ill health.
Principles of process safety leadership
Monday, July 20, 2009
Representatives of Britain’s high hazard industries, regulators and the unions have published a set of principles for ‘process safety leadership’
Analyses of overfill of fuel storage tanks
Friday, July 10, 2009
In response to the Buncefield incident, the Major Incident Investigation Board (MIIB) made recommendations to
Changes to COMAH arising from CHIP 2008
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
This Local Authority Circular (LAC) alerts inspectors to changes to the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999,
WATCH agendas and minutes
Friday, June 26, 2009
Working Group on Action to Control Chemicals (WATCH) agendas and minutes are now available for: 23 - 24 October
Carriage of dangerous goods manual updated
Monday, June 22, 2009
The carriage of dangerous goods manual has undergone a major revision.
Scientific job vacancies
Friday, June 12, 2009
Details are available for the following job vacancies within the Chemicals Regulation Directorate, based in York and Bootle, Merseyside.
Integrity of atmospheric storage tanks
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
This circular has been updated, its purpose is to raise awareness of the factors to consider when operating storage tanks containing hazardous substances.
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