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Category: Chemicals

After dinner speech given by HSE Chair at NW Hazards BRANCH XXI Symposium

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Transcript of after dinner speech given by HSE Chair Judith Hackitt at North West Hazards BRANCH XXI Symposium

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Validation of the Shallow Water model “SPLOT” against experimental data on bund overtopping

Thursday, November 12, 2009

The objective of this work was to validate SPreading Liquid Over Terrain (SPLOT), LSMS and OVERTOP against experimental bund overtopping data,

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Chemical burns prompt HSE prosecution of Leicestershire firm

Thursday, November 5, 2009

HSE has warned companies of their duty to protect employees working with chemicals after two workers were burnt at

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Updated chemicals advice praised by small businesses

Thursday, November 5, 2009

New, easy to use guidance is available for businesses on how to deal with hazardous substances in the workplace.

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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,

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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,

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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

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The Chemicals Regulations 2009

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

A transposition note on ‘The Chemicals (Hazard Information And Packaging For Supply) Regulations 2009′

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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.

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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’

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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

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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,

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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

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Carriage of dangerous goods manual updated

Monday, June 22, 2009

The carriage of dangerous goods manual has undergone a major revision.

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