Health and Safety
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Health and Safety Executive
HSE Books, 2008. (INDG422)
Published 06.2008
This free publication provides advice on the options you have under LOLER relating to the requirement for thorough examination and inspection of lifting equipment and explains benefit of having an examination scheme.
Health and Safety Executive
HSE Books, 2008. (L84)
ISBN: 9780717662968
£10.50
Published 06.2008
This new edition of L84 is a minor revision, taking account changes to the regulations and the guidance since the first edition. The guide is for people affected by the well aspects of the Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc) Regulations 1996.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr637.pdf
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Risk Support Limited and Health and Safety Executive
RR637
Published 06/06/2008
Offshore oil and gas duty holders have recognised that a lack of skilled workforce, change to shorter working hours and increase in activity can lead to an erosion of health and safety unless balanced by significant increase in level of training and supervision. The way forward suggested in this report is based on:
By improving comprehension of major hazards the workforce itself can play a central role in safety case preparation by being involved in identifying real improvements in safety that are reasonable and based on the day-to-day grass-roots operational experience of various disciplines. Workforce involvement in optimising safety management processes not only increases the experience of the group of workers who can contribute to the process (contributory expertise), but also of other groups of workers who acquire interactional expertise. Safety optimisation can be applied to any process by challenging the existing situation along the lines ‘what more can we do’, or ‘how can we do it better’, etc. Evaluating complexity of protection systems is based on understanding the work that has to be done to maintain, control and operate protective systems, and the available competence.
This report and the work it describes were funded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr622.pdf
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R, Gervais, J, Williamson, V, Sanders, J, Hopkinson of Health and Safety Laboratory and Health and Safety Executive
RR622
Published 05/06/2008
This current report involved a comparative evaluation of the impact, including the costs and benefits, of the Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Directive 90/270/EEC in Great Britain, with the previous evaluation of the Regulations that was completed in 1997. The research is based on a structured sample of employers in Great Britain, in which data were collected from 1,241 respondents.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr628.pdf
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R, Gervais, J, Williamson, V, Sanders, J, Hopkinson of Health and Safety Laboratory and Health and Safety Executive
RR628
Published 05/06/2008
This research was commissioned to provide the UK contribution to an EU working group studying the effectiveness and efficiency of existing EU health and safety legislation. To achieve this an ex post evaluation of the EU Directive 90/270/EEC, which regulates work at Visual Display Units (VDU), was carried out in six member states. This Directive was chosen because the transposition into national law was generally made in a comparable way in all six countries. The EU working group established common requirements for the evaluation to provide comparative data for the cross-country evaluation. It is based on a structured sample of employers in Great Britain, in which data were collected from 1241 respondents. The study involved also a literature review, but this revealed only a limited amount of relevant research on the topic. Research report RR622 uses the same data to provide a comparison with the previous UK evaluation of the DSE Regulations in 1997. The EU working group has been published electronically by the EU.