Health and Safety Executive

Category: Chemicals

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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Free – HSE eBulletins

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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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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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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Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

Friday, June 12, 2009

Using chemicals or other hazardous substances at work can put people’s health at risk, causing diseases including

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European legislative dossier on dichloromethane updated

Friday, May 29, 2009

The European legislative dossier on dichloromethane has been updated and is now under implementation.

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REACH – Substance Information Exchange Forum (SIEF)

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

If you have pre-registered a substance then you will be part of a Substance Information Exchange Forum (SIEF).

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REACH registration

Monday, April 20, 2009

If you have registration duties under Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation & restriction of CHemicals (REACH), then you need to know what you should be doing and by when.

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Working Group on Action to Control Chemicals (WATCH)

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

 Papers and minutes for the meeting of the sub-committee of the Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances

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Substance selection criteria

Thursday, April 9, 2009

UK REACH CA Steering Committee establishing the process and criteria by which substances can be proposed for

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Moves to simplify health and safety take effect

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Moves to make health and safety laws easier to understand and comply with take effect from today.

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HSE announces Chemicals Regulation Directorate

Friday, April 3, 2009

HSE has announced that the Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD) and the Chemicals Assessment Schemes Unit (CASU) will merge

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The health and safety law poster

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

As from 6 April 2009, HSE is publishing new versions of its approved health and safety poster and leaflet.

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