Job vacancy details are now available for 3 positions as Business Development Manager within the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL). Closing date is Thursday, 24 May 2012.
Category: Research
Band 1 Sales Director – fixed term appointment 2 years
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Job vacancy details are now available for the position of Sales Director within the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL). Closing date is 24 May 2012.
Wellbeing at Work: 2nd International Conference – Salford 21 – 23 May
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The theme for the conference is “Making the Case for Wellbeing”, and aims to build on the success of the first conference in Helsinki 2010 and provide an environment where research, best practice and innovation can be shared amongst interested researchers from all relevant subject areas. The Lowry Centre at Salford Quays, Manchester is the location [...]
RR920 – Evaluation of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007
Friday, April 13, 2012
In September 2003, the Health and Safety Commission took the decision to revise the existing Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM 1994) with the objective of improving the management of risk. Consequently, CDM 2007 came into force on 6 April 2007. It was agreed to evaluate CDM 2007 following a period of operation.
RR921 – Occupational Health Provision on the Olympic Park and Athletes’ Village: Final report
Thursday, April 12, 2012
This report presents the results of a research project which examined the performance of the occupational health (OH) provision on the Olympic Park and Athletes’ Village. The report is based on information provided by the OH team of clinical staff and occupational hygienists on the site as well as data collected from managers and workers [...]
RR913 – Linking HSE activities to health and safety outcomes: A feasibility study
Monday, April 2, 2012
This research investigates the feasibility and challenges of developing quantitative evidence of links between ongoing activities and reductions in death, injury and causes of ill health caused by work.
RR909 – Safety performance indicators in the explosives sector: Development of a worked example
Thursday, March 29, 2012
This work builds on the examples and indicators identified in previous work (Ferguson and Nash, 2008), and aimed to encapsulate the types of activities common to a large number of organisations.
RR916 – Risk assessment for VCE scenario in an aerosol warehouse
Monday, March 5, 2012
n 2006, Dr Graham Atkinson of HSL was asked by HSE to review the risks from fires in large aerosol stores (Atkinson, 2007). Atkinson reviewed incident statistics and reports and concluded that the greatest risk to people from such fires was from explosions, not from the fire itself.
RR915 – The major accident failure rates project: Concept phase
Monday, March 5, 2012
The major accident failure rates project is a joint venture between the UK and the Netherlands to address the feasibility of updating generic failure rates used in risk assessment for major hazard chemical plants.
RR844 – An assessment of the level of compliance with the statutory duty to obtain insurance under the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969: Final Report
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
If employees become ill or injured at work, they might be able to claim compensation from their employer. The ELCI Act (1969) requires that employers take out insurance against such claims. There are some exemptions to this, including public bodies, and those employing specified relatives only. Previous research in this area has found inconsistent levels [...]
RR912 – Management of ageing: A framework for nuclear chemical facilities
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Managing ageing plant effectively requires a paradigm shift in the way that asset condition is regarded, assessed and maintained.
RR914 – An evaluation of the efficacy of safer sharps devices: Systematic review
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Sharps-related injuries carry the risk of serious blood borne infection. A systematic review was undertaken to consider the evidence related to safer sharps devices and their impact on needlestick injury reduction within the healthcare sector.
RR908 – Vapour cloud formation: Experiments and modelling
Monday, February 13, 2012
Hazard analysis for overfilling of a tank with a volatile liquid is a complex and important problem but (prior to the Buncefield incident) had not been the subject of significant research effort.
RR906 – Collision and injury criteria when working with collaborative robots
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
This study explores the safety, reliability and evidence for the force limits defined by the draft TS 15066, and of the methods for testing them. It also addressed whether the proposed approach in the draft TS 15066 is likely to adequately protect people from the risks.
RR901 – Prospective evaluation of the 1991 NIOSH Lifting Equation
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
An epidemiological prospective cohort study of the ability of the 1991 NIOSH Lifting Equation to predict loss of time from work due to low back pain (LBP) or to predict reports of LBP followed 515 industrial workers in jobs requiring manual handling for 18 months.
RR903 – Review on the validity and reliability of self-reported work-related illness
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Self-report is an efficient and accepted means of assessing population characteristics, risk factors, and diseases and is frequently used in occupational health studies.
RR900 – Visualisation and control of solder fume exposure: A quantitative assessment of LEV effectiveness
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Colophony or Rosin Based Solder Flux Fume is a known cause of occupational asthma and as such exposure to it should be controlled. An effective method of engineering exposure control is to use local exhaust ventilation (LEV) to extract the fume at source.
RR902 – Chloride stress corrosion cracking in austenitic stainless steel: Assessing susceptibility and structural integrity
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Chloride stress corrosion cracking (CLSCC) is one the most common reasons why austenitic stainless steel pipework and vessels deteriorate in the chemical processing and petrochemical industries. Deterioration by CLSCC can lead to failures that have the potential to release stored energy and hazardous substances.
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