Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
About HSE
To advise the Commission on methods of securing safety by controlling risks to workers and others connected with the manufacture, import, storage, conveyance and the use of dangerous substances and from flammable gas, connected with manufacture, supply, transmission, distribution, installation and use.
Following a review of ACDS last year, HSE has prepared a below the line paper, HSC/5/84 [404k] 
, containing recommendations to HSC concerning the future of the committee, and a summarising the results of the stakeholder survey, for consideration at the HSC meeting on 6 September 2005.
The Major Hazards Subcommittee is a subcommittee of ACDS. Its remit is to advise ACDS on ways of securing the health and safety of people and protecting the environment from the risks of major accidents arising in the course of manufacture, handling, storage and transport of dangerous substances, including by pipeline. In the implementation into UK law of the European Seveso II Directive on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances, it has concentrated its efforts on those dangerous substances covered by the Directive, e.g. toxic and flammable chemicals, explosives and substances dangerous to the environment, and the requirement for land use
planning policies to be developed to limit the consequences of major accidents.For queries about the ACDS Major Hazards Subcommittee, please contact: David
Bosworth, the Secretary of the Major Hazards Subcommittee, Health and Safety
Executive, Policy Group, Major Hazards Control, Room 108, Daniel House, Trinity
Road, Bootle, Merseyside, L20 7HE.
E-mail: anton.wilson@hse.gsi.gov.uk
The Gas Safety Subcommittee is a subcommittee of ACDS. Its remit is to advise ACDS on all aspects of gas safety, including proposals for new legislation, and for determining a strategy for gas safety awareness/publicity.
A recent fundamental review of the health and safety regime for the installation and use of gas resulted in 47 recommendations, which were accepted by both the HSC and Ministers. To assist with the implementation of these recommendations, the Gas Safety Subcommittee established five working groups. These cover installation and use of gas, transmission and distribution of gas, operative competence, publicity/awareness and research. Work is well advanced on proposals for changes to the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 and the Gas Safety (Management) Regulations 1996 to implement those recommendations requiring regulatory change. It is anticipated that the two consultation documents will be published in Winter 2004 with a view to having the amended regulations in force by the Spring 2005.
For queries about the ACDS Gas Safety Subcommittee, please contact: Simon
Morgan, the Secretary of the Gas Safety Subcommittee, Health and Safety Executive,
Policy Group, Gas Safety, Rose Court 5th Floor South Wing, 2 Southwark Bridge,
London SE1 9HS.
E-mail: simon.morgan@hse.gsi.gov.uk
The Flammable Substances Subcommittee is a subcommittee of ACDS. It advises ACDS on the development/amendment of legislation, ACOP and guidance material and safety control regimes for flammable substances used in the workplace.
For queries about the ACDS Flammable Substances Subcommittee, please contact:
Martin Davies, the Secretary of the Flammable Substances Subcommittee, Health
and Safety Executive, Policy Group, Chemical and Flammables Division 1, Energetic
Substances, Room 108, Daniel House, Trinity Road, Bootle, Merseyside, L20
7HE.
E-mail: craig.bell@hse.gsi.gov.uk
The Explosives Subcommittee is a subcommittee of ACDS. Its remit is to advise ACDS on proposals for new legislation on the manufacture and storage of explosives to replace the Explosives Act 1875. In the context of implementing the Seveso II Directive, the Explosives Subcommittee has close links with the Major Hazards Subcommittee.
For queries about the ACDS Explosives Subcommittee, please contact: Andy
Miller, the Secretary of the Explosives Subcommittee, Health and Safety Executive,
Policy Group, Mines, Quarries and Explosives, Rose Court 5th Floor South Wing,
2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS.
E-mail: Andy.Miller@hse.gsi.gov.uk
| Agendas | Papers |
Minutes |
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| 23 November 2004 | ||
| 22 November Open Meeting | ||
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| 24 February 2004 | ||
| 26 September 2003 | ||
| 26 September 2003 - Open Meeting | ||
| 13 February 2003 | ||
| 8 October 2002 | ||
| 12 June 2002 | ||
| 14 February 2002 | ||
| 14 February 2002 - Open Meeting | ||