All the reports listed below are in PDF format.

• Workplace health connect in rural areas [2.6MB]
  Research report presenting the findings of a study to provide evidence to ensure that the needs of employers and employees in rural areas are incorporated into any future planning for the Workplace Health Connect service.
• Powertrain Occupational Respiratory Disease Outbreak: Report of Immunological Investigation MU/06/01 [259KB]
  Powertrain Limited produced engine components in aluminium and cast iron. In March 2004, HSE was informed by Birmingham Heartlands Chest Clinic of a number of cases of extrinsic allergic alveolitis in Powertrain employees prompting further investigation. By March 2006 the cases of probable and definite work-related respiratory disease had reached 1021 mainly of occupational asthma (OA) and extrinsic allergic alveolitis (EAA).
• Summary report of a survey to investigate the use of antifouling products (AFOs) in UK freshwaters [230KB]
  Report produced by HSE’s Biocide and Pesticide Unit based on the results of a survey undertaken by Applied Management Techniques.
• Professional operator practices – A site survey of timber treatment businesses in the UK utilising brush, dipping and spraying application methods [100KB]
  Investigates the operating practices at timber treatment sites concerned with brush, roller, spraying, dipping and irrigation applications of wood preservatives, to identify potential losses to the environment.
• Catalogue of OSD and HID Offshore Research by Key Human Factor Elements – 2002 Revision [1.2MB]
  Originally published in 1999 this catalogue has now been updated (2002).

• UK offshore public transport helicopter safety record (1976 – 2002) [220KB]
  Produces a safety record of UK offshore helicopter operations and makes comparisons with other modes of transport.
• Implications for the assessment of existing fixed steel structures of proposed ISO 13819-2 member strength formulations [8MB]
  A study to determine the likely consequences for existing structures of introducing the member strength formulations proposed for the new ISO fixed steel structures standard.

• Evaluation of simulation based design tools for the construction industries - final report [670KB]
  Evaluates the use of virtual reality and simulation tools in design packages to assist in health and safety risk assessment and risk reduction in the design process.
• Generic modification of compressed oxygen self-rescuers for use in compressed air tunnels at pressures of 0.0 to 3.5 bar gauge (U) [1MB]
  A range of techniques has been used to provide breathing apparatus for use during normobaric tunnelling operations. Tunnelling work may also be conducted at elevated pressures up to 3.5 bar gauge; currently available respiratory protection systems are not appropriate for these operations due to limited endurance and the toxic effect of oxygen at elevated inspired partial pressure.

• Establishment and management of focus groups to establish the optimum methods of communication with a view to encouraging changed behaviours on chemical related health and safety issues [500KB]
  To understand what tools Micro Firms in 4 key sectors need to help them protect their employees from the ill effects of working with hazardous substances.
• Successful interventions with hard to reach groups [560KB]
  contains information and recommendations about identifying hard to reach groups, and the ingredients of successful interventions.
• Worker participation in health & safety [150KB]
  A review of Australian provisions for worker health & safety representation.

• Work related upper limb pain syndromes - origins and management - [2MB]
  Report on a research priorities workshop hosted by the institute of Occupational Health - University of Birmingham.
• A review of diagnostic criteria for work-related upper limb disorders [1.2MB]
  Work related upper limb disorder is a collective term for an heterogenous group of soft tissue disorders thought to have arisen as a result of work involving repeated use or constrained postures.
• A review of diagnostic criteria for work related upper limb disorders (WRULD) [470KB]
  The term upper limb disorder encompasses a variety of musculoskeletal problems, affecting the tissues of the hand, wrist, arm and shoulder. Such problems are relatively common in the general population. Regarding the workplace, WRULD is an umbrella term for conditions thought to be caused by exposure in the workplace.
• The role and interaction of occupational risk factors and generalised susceptibility to osteoarthritis of the knee. A case control investigation (1 of 2) [610KB]
• The role and interaction of occupational risk factors and generalised susceptibility to osteoarthritis of the knee. A case control investigation (2 of 2) [2.1MB]

• The effect of thermoplastic melt flow behaviour on the dynamics of fire growth [280KB]
  Extract from PhD thesis by Jo Sherratt B Eng, MSc

• Lines of defence/layers of protection analysis in the COMAH context [390KB]
  This report considers a number of risk assessment techniques using the Line of Defence / Layer of Protection concept and their usefulness in the COMAH context.
• A simplified approach to estimating individual risk [820KB]
  Describes a simplified method of calculating individual risk. The method described
  is a development of other semi-quantitative approaches such as the risk matrix or Layer of Protection Analysis. The method may be useful in the context of performing risk assessments for the purposes of preparing safety reports under COMAH.