Health and Safety Executive

Category: Welding

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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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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Public consultations alerts

Friday, September 19, 2008

Sign up email or mobile phone text alerts to be informed about new consultations, reminders and

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Van explodes transporting acetylene gas

Monday, June 18, 2007

HSE issues a warning on transport of acetylene cylinders following an explosion in a van travelling in Wolsingham

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Products evolved during hot gas welding of fluoropolymers

Monday, May 14, 2007

This report details the findings of a research project which was performed as a

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Analysis of weld-through primers

Monday, February 26, 2007

These two reports analyse ’weld-through primers’ using pyrolysis-gas chromatography mass spectrometry.

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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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