Chemicals Industries Division of HSE is aware of three relatively recent failures associated with water tube boilers.
Category: Chemicals
Warehousing chemicals safely – storing packaged dangerous substances
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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COSHH – case studies
Examples of real life situations with Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH).
MALDI/TOF/MS analysis of isocyanates and other hazardous workplace chemicals
Mass spectrometry is the most widely used analytical detector in forensic science,industry and research.
Judith Hackitt responds EU radiation directive article
The HSE Chair has responded to article in The Daily Telegraph titled ‘Business hopes Government will see the light on EU
COSHH – Working with substances hazardous to health
This leaflet describes how to control hazardous substances at work so that they do not cause ill health.
Principles of process safety leadership
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
In response to the Buncefield incident, the Major Incident Investigation Board (MIIB) made recommendations to
WATCH agendas and minutes
Working Group on Action to Control Chemicals (WATCH) agendas and minutes are now available for: 23 – 24 October
Carriage of dangerous goods manual updated
The carriage of dangerous goods manual has undergone a major revision.
European legislative dossier on dichloromethane updated
The European legislative dossier on dichloromethane has been updated and is now under implementation.
REACH – Substance Information Exchange Forum (SIEF)
If you have pre-registered a substance then you will be part of a Substance Information Exchange Forum (SIEF).
REACH registration
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.
Working Group on Action to Control Chemicals (WATCH)
Papers and minutes for the meeting of the sub-committee of the Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances
Substance selection criteria
UK REACH CA Steering Committee establishing the process and criteria by which substances can be proposed for
Moves to simplify health and safety take effect
Moves to make health and safety laws easier to understand and comply with take effect from today.
HSE announces Chemicals Regulation Directorate
HSE has announced that the Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD) and the Chemicals Assessment Schemes Unit (CASU) will merge

