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The register was established in response to the Government’s October 2010 report on 'Common Sense, Common Safety', which recommended that all health and safety consultants should be accredited to professional bodies and a web-based directory established.
One of the latest campaigns has been Asbestos In Schools, which has led the association to be part of a parliamentary steering group. The association also works alongside the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and other regulatory bodies such as the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) to help raise awareness of asbestos and to improve ...
The Control of Asbestos 2006 regulations brought together three separate pieces of legislation which covered the prohibition of Asbestos, the control of asbestos at work and asbestos licensing. They prohibited the import, supply and use of all types of asbestos and also continued to ban the second hand use of asbestos products such as asbestos ...
The Control of Asbestos Regulations were introduced in the UK in November 2006 and were an amalgamation of three previous sets of legislation (Asbestos Prohibition, Asbestos Licensing and the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations) aimed at minimising the use and disturbance of asbestos containing materials within British workplaces ...
Health and Safety Executive, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare agency in the UK; Health Service Executive, provision of health and personal social services in the Republic of Ireland; Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, health body of Northern Ireland; Holding Slovenske elektrarne, a Slovene power ...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a British public body responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare. It has additionally adopted a research role into occupational risks in the United Kingdom. It is a non-departmental public body with its headquarters in Bootle, England. [2]
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, a United Kingdom statutory instrument, stipulate general requirements on accommodation standards for nearly all workplaces. The regulations implemented European Union directive 89/654/EEC on minimum safety and health requirements for the workplace and repealed and superseded much of ...
The regulations apply to occupational health and safety within the territorial borders of Great Britain, also on offshore installations. [4] [5] [6] It does not apply to the marking of dangerous goods and substances itself, only its storage or pipes, nor the regulation of road, rail, inland waterway, sea or air traffic, nor to signs used aboard of sea-going ships. [1]