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Check here for News from other years A-Z of what has been new since 2005 HSE: Carriage of Dangerous Goods Prohibition Notices (latest) September/October 2011 published. Carriage of Dangerous Goods Prohibition Notices issued by Police, Vehicle & Operator Services Agency (VOSA) or Department for Transport during September/October 2011, now available. -added 15/2/12 Available here HSE: COSHH How does it affect you in your industry? How does Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health affect you in your industry? From this page select your industry to view key messages and how COSHH affects you. -added 15/2/12 More information here HSE: Stake pointing on a circular woodworking saw. Woodworking is the only industry where machinery accidents cause more injuries than slips and trips. This example illustrates safe practice when stake pointing on a circular saw. -added 14/2/12 More information here HSE: Control of Pesticides Regulations (COPR) -new approvals January 2012. These documents give details, month-by-month, of new products that have gained approval via the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and amendments to existing approvals. -added 14/2/12 More information here HSE: Health and safety for disabled people -key points to remember. Health and safety is, on occasions, used as a false excuse to justify discriminating against disabled workers, HSE is committed to tackling this. This guidance is for you whether you are in work or looking for work. -added 14/2/12 More information here Birmingham City Council: Young people at work information sheet. When you first start work, your surroundings will be strange to you and this can make you vulnerable to new hazards that might cause you serious injury, ill-health or even kill you! For that reason your employer has to take extra care of young persons in the workplace and you have to be extra careful whilst you learn about the dangers around you. -added 14/2/12 Available here HSE: Printing industry FAQs. Answers to some of the frequently asked questions on maintaining and inspecting hand-fed platen (die cutting) machines in the printing industry. -added 13/2/12 Available here HSE: Guidance on the amended RIDDOR regulations. This new edition of the guidance includes changes to the over-three-day reporting requirement under regulation 3(2) that becomes law on 6 April 2012. Further details are given in paragraphs 6167. It also brings the associated guidance up to date, particularly in relation to changes in reporting arrangements and the new online reporting service. Further details are provided in paragraphs 5590 of the guidance. -added 8/2/12 Available here HMG: The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (Amendment) Regulations 2012. These new amending Regulations (i.e. Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/199)) amend the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR 95) and make consequential amendments to the Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations 1977 and the Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and Safety Committees) Regulations 1989. The amendments will come into force on 6 April 2012. -added 8/2/12 Amended regulations available here HSE: Vehicles at work interactive case studies. HSE has put together some before-and-after interactive case studies to help you think and talk about vehicle safety in the workplace. They are all based on events that our inspectors have reported. -added 8/2/12 Available here HSE: Turning concern into action construction video. This hard-hitting video illustrates the tragic cost in human terms of construction accidents and ill-health. -added 8/2/12 Available here HSE: Falls from height FAQs. This page provides answers to some of your frequently asked questions about working at height. -added 8/2/12 More information here Direct Gov: Clearing ice and snow. Dont be put off by myths advice and tips on clearing snow and ice from public places is available from Direct Gov. -added 1/2/12 More information here HSE: Local Government FAQs. The risks in local government arise across the broad spectrum of activities and services delivered by individual councils. These FAQs help illustrate the nature of some of the issues HSE routinely gives advice on. -added 1/2/12 More information here Heathy Working Lives: RPE selector tool. You can use the RPE Selector Tool to determine what kind of equipment your workers will need for a hazardous substance, task and work area involved. -added 1/2/12 Available here HSE: Risk assessment Online interactive tools. HSE has developed these interactive tools to help those working in low risk offices and shops, including charity shops understand what they need to do to assess and control risks in the workplace and comply with health and safety law. -added 28/1/12 Available here HSE: Respiratory Protective Equipment FAQs. Answers to your frequently asked questions on respiratory protective equipment. -added 26/1/12 More here HSE: Lung diseases: Silicosis Major disease risk from RCS dust. Respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is found in stone, rocks, sands and clays. Exposure to RCS over a long period can cause fibrosis (hardening or scarring) of the lung tissue with a consequent loss of lung function. -added 20/1/12 More information here HSE: Working at height management advice. Managing work at height follows a hierarchy of controls avoid, prevent, arrest which begins with the question can the work be done safely from the ground? Fall restraints and safety netting should only be considered as a last resort if other safety equipment cannot be used. -added 13/1/12 More information here HSE: Risk assessments: approaches for small businesses. Examples show kind of approach HSE expects a small business or workplace to take and how other small and medium-sized businesses have approached risk assessment. -added 13/1/12 Availabe here HSE: Independent Regulatory Challenge Panel. Looks into complaints regarding advice given by HSE or LA inspectors about health and safety which you think is incorrect or goes beyond what is required to control the risk adequately. -added 6/1/12 More information here HSE: What is a 'substance hazardous to health'? COSHH covers substances that are hazardous to health. Substances can take many forms and include chemicals, products containing chemicals, fumes, dusts, vapours, mists, nanotechnology, gases and asphyxiating gases and biological agents. -added 4/1/12 More information here
HSE: Carriage of Dangerous Goods Prohibition Notices (latest) September/October 2011 published. Carriage of Dangerous Goods Prohibition Notices issued by Police, Vehicle & Operator Services Agency (VOSA) or Department for Transport during September/October 2011, now available. -added 15/2/12 Available here HSE: COSHH How does it affect you in your industry? How does Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health affect you in your industry? From this page select your industry to view key messages and how COSHH affects you. -added 15/2/12 More information here HSE: Stake pointing on a circular woodworking saw. Woodworking is the only industry where machinery accidents cause more injuries than slips and trips. This example illustrates safe practice when stake pointing on a circular saw. -added 14/2/12 More information here HSE: Control of Pesticides Regulations (COPR) -new approvals January 2012. These documents give details, month-by-month, of new products that have gained approval via the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and amendments to existing approvals. -added 14/2/12 More information here HSE: Health and safety for disabled people -key points to remember. Health and safety is, on occasions, used as a false excuse to justify discriminating against disabled workers, HSE is committed to tackling this. This guidance is for you whether you are in work or looking for work. -added 14/2/12 More information here Birmingham City Council: Young people at work information sheet. When you first start work, your surroundings will be strange to you and this can make you vulnerable to new hazards that might cause you serious injury, ill-health or even kill you! For that reason your employer has to take extra care of young persons in the workplace and you have to be extra careful whilst you learn about the dangers around you. -added 14/2/12 Available here HSE: Printing industry FAQs. Answers to some of the frequently asked questions on maintaining and inspecting hand-fed platen (die cutting) machines in the printing industry. -added 13/2/12 Available here HSE: Guidance on the amended RIDDOR regulations. This new edition of the guidance includes changes to the over-three-day reporting requirement under regulation 3(2) that becomes law on 6 April 2012. Further details are given in paragraphs 6167. It also brings the associated guidance up to date, particularly in relation to changes in reporting arrangements and the new online reporting service. Further details are provided in paragraphs 5590 of the guidance. -added 8/2/12 Available here HMG: The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (Amendment) Regulations 2012. These new amending Regulations (i.e. Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/199)) amend the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR 95) and make consequential amendments to the Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations 1977 and the Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and Safety Committees) Regulations 1989. The amendments will come into force on 6 April 2012. -added 8/2/12 Amended regulations available here HSE: Vehicles at work interactive case studies. HSE has put together some before-and-after interactive case studies to help you think and talk about vehicle safety in the workplace. They are all based on events that our inspectors have reported. -added 8/2/12 Available here HSE: Turning concern into action construction video. This hard-hitting video illustrates the tragic cost in human terms of construction accidents and ill-health. -added 8/2/12 Available here HSE: Falls from height FAQs. This page provides answers to some of your frequently asked questions about working at height. -added 8/2/12 More information here Direct Gov: Clearing ice and snow. Dont be put off by myths advice and tips on clearing snow and ice from public places is available from Direct Gov. -added 1/2/12 More information here HSE: Local Government FAQs. The risks in local government arise across the broad spectrum of activities and services delivered by individual councils. These FAQs help illustrate the nature of some of the issues HSE routinely gives advice on. -added 1/2/12 More information here Heathy Working Lives: RPE selector tool. You can use the RPE Selector Tool to determine what kind of equipment your workers will need for a hazardous substance, task and work area involved. -added 1/2/12 Available here HSE: Risk assessment Online interactive tools. HSE has developed these interactive tools to help those working in low risk offices and shops, including charity shops understand what they need to do to assess and control risks in the workplace and comply with health and safety law. -added 28/1/12 Available here HSE: Respiratory Protective Equipment FAQs. Answers to your frequently asked questions on respiratory protective equipment. -added 26/1/12 More here HSE: Lung diseases: Silicosis Major disease risk from RCS dust. Respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is found in stone, rocks, sands and clays. Exposure to RCS over a long period can cause fibrosis (hardening or scarring) of the lung tissue with a consequent loss of lung function. -added 20/1/12 More information here HSE: Working at height management advice. Managing work at height follows a hierarchy of controls avoid, prevent, arrest which begins with the question can the work be done safely from the ground? Fall restraints and safety netting should only be considered as a last resort if other safety equipment cannot be used. -added 13/1/12 More information here HSE: Risk assessments: approaches for small businesses. Examples show kind of approach HSE expects a small business or workplace to take and how other small and medium-sized businesses have approached risk assessment. -added 13/1/12 Availabe here HSE: Independent Regulatory Challenge Panel. Looks into complaints regarding advice given by HSE or LA inspectors about health and safety which you think is incorrect or goes beyond what is required to control the risk adequately. -added 6/1/12 More information here HSE: What is a 'substance hazardous to health'? COSHH covers substances that are hazardous to health. Substances can take many forms and include chemicals, products containing chemicals, fumes, dusts, vapours, mists, nanotechnology, gases and asphyxiating gases and biological agents. -added 4/1/12 More information here
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