The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has a track record of being at the forefront of developments in risk governance; it has adjusted its approach to regulation in order to ensure that it fulfils its regulatory mandate in a way that is responsive to evolving societal expectations.
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Category: Research
RR448 - Complex and contentious risk based decision-making in the field of health, safety and the environment Comparative analysis of two UK examples
Friday, July 21, 2006
RR476 An evaluation of the five steps to risk assessment
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
This report, which presents an evaluation of the impact of HSE’s Five Steps to Risk Assessment leaflet as well the Five Steps approach more generally, is based on survey and case study research on risk assessment behaviour in establishments across Great Britain. The main aims of the research were to assess the:
(a) take-up of the [...]
RR475 - The development of a ‘female’ form manikin as part of a test facility to assess the fire protection afforded by personal protective equipment
Monday, July 17, 2006
The concept of using heat sensing manikins to assess the protection against “flashover” fires provided by clothing has become increasingly recognised over the last ten years. In 2001 the UK Fire Service became concerned that because manikin test facilities only used a “male” form manikin, it was not possible to either assess clothing for female [...]
RR473 - Review of issues associated with the stability of semi-submersibles
Friday, July 14, 2006
This review study was undertaken as part of a wider exercise to assess the need for HSE Guidance within the UK Safety Case regime. The study included a comparison between stability standards specified by key regulatory authorities and classification societies for intact and damaged semi-submersible units, a review of relevant published literature and of HSE/ [...]
Local Authorities and HSE Working Together Strategic Programme
Thursday, July 13, 2006
The S&T Initiative launched May 2005, for Local Authorities (LAs) to investigate how they could make increased use of science, has so far been a success with applications being made for around 50 planned projects and over 50 requests for reactive support. Further details of this initiative and progress made during the first year now available.
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RR477 - Review of the level of accuracy required and means of demonstrating that accuracy for approval of dosimetry services by the Health and Safety Executive
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
This report considers methods of assessing the accuracy and reliability of dosimetry systems, the current
HSE process of dosimetry service approval and possible improvements and alternative approaches, for both
external and internal dosimetry.
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RR471 - A literature review of the effects of environment microclimatic conditions on the slip potential for flooring
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a wide range of publications concerning the risk of slips
and trips along with practical measures that can be taken to minimise the risk. The work detailed in this report comprised a literature/information review considering the following environmental parameters: internal air temperature, surface temperature, relative humidity, ventilation and [...]
Horizon Scanning - Future health and safety issues - updated website
Tuesday, July 4, 2006
Horizon scanning is the process by which HSE ensures that it is aware of developments, trends and changes in the medium to long-term future that could have an impact on its ability to act as an effective and efficient promoter and regulator of health and safety in Britain.
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RR469 - Lay conceptualisations of occupational disease
Friday, June 30, 2006
Objectives People’s beliefs about the causes, treatments, symptoms, and duration etc. of an illness from a model that influences what they define as illness and how they respond to it (treatment seeking, absenteeism)
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RR468 - Nonlinear potential flow forcing: the ringing of concrete gravity based structures
Friday, June 30, 2006
This report represents a summary of a larger report that describes a substantial programme of work concerning the nonlinear potential flow loads acting on single and multiple column structures. In particular, the report addresses the issue of structural ringing, or transient structural deflections occurring at frequencies well above the incident wave frequencies. The work has [...]
RR 464 - Identifying and evaluating the social and psychological impact of workplace accidents and ill-health incidents on employees
Friday, June 30, 2006
This research, and the literature review that preceded it, was commissioned by HSE. The review confirmed that there are few studies that have explicitly examined the impact of serious workplace-related injury and ill health on individuals, their families and their immediate social network.
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RR459 - Use of 3D Seismic data as a substitute for high-resolution seismic surveys for site investigation
Friday, June 30, 2006
The assessment of geohazards is usually conducted using high-resolution seismic surveys. However, in many deep-water exploration areas worldwide 3D seismic data are now routinely employed for site investigation work as well as basic prospect exploration as this helps to reduce costs.
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RR376 - Health and well-being in the offshore environment
Friday, June 30, 2006
This project was designed to assess health climate offshore and to evaluate its impact upon the health behaviour, organizational citizenship behaviours, safety behaviour, organizational commitment and accident involvement of offshore workers on the UKCS. The Offshore Safety Division of the UK Health and Safety Executive’s Hazardous Installations Directorate sponsored the study.
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RR449 - Defining a case of work-related stress
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
This research considers the feasibility and possible nature of a case definition of work-related stress that is suitable for application in a variety of stakeholder domains. The most important of these, for this research, is that of the epidemiological domain. The overall issue is important in two different contexts. First, it is needed in occupational [...]
IR/L/SP/93/08 - Investigation into the Sampling and Analysis of Solder Fume Part V – Development of a Sampling Method for Resin Acids
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
An investigation was carried out to develop personal sampling methods for solder fume with the aim of obtaining both qualitative and quantitative information. Although both volatile and particular fractions are present in solder fume, the sampling method was developed primarily to investigate the particular matter which is made up largely of resin acids.
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HSL/2006/49 - Management Standards for Workplace Transport: HSE Staff Consultation
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
HSE are exploring the potential for implementation of Workplace Transport (WT) Management Standards for industry. This involves actively working with partners within HSE and industry to develop clear and agreed generic standards of good management practice for a range of Workplace Transport topics.
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HSL/2006/50 - Removal of chrysotile containing textured decorative finishes: additional work report 1 – Site R
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
HSE is currently consulting as to whether textured decorative coatings (TDC) should continue to be regarded as one of a special category of licensed materials, which pose a much higher risk to workers than other asbestos containing materials (ACMs). To assist in this process HSE has asked HSL’s Inorganics and Fibres Section (IFS) to investigate [...]
RR458 - The global perspective in addressing construction risks
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
This report describes a study into the global perspective in addressing construction risks. Global risks are defined as the overall risks resulting from all phases of a construction activity. These will need to be evaluated for each potential construction method in order to select the method with the lowest overall risk in relation to what [...]
HSL/2006/0648 - HSL input into NAFEMS CFD Working Group: 2003-2005
Monday, June 26, 2006
This report presents the activities of the Working Group and more specifically the contributions from HSL, related to health and safety issues, for the period from December 2003 to November 2005. It provides first an overview of CFD, with a few examples of its application to health and safety-related issues, and some background information on [...]
RR460 - Trends in inhalation exposure Mid 1980’s till present
Monday, June 26, 2006
Although occupational exposure levels are likely to have changed over time, relatively few studies have been conducted to investigate the long-term changes in exposure. Data sets held by the collaborators and the National Exposure DataBase (NEDB) were reviewed to investigate the long-term changes in inhalation exposure to toluene, wood dust, flour dust, respirable dust and [...]
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