Contents

Industry specific

• Waste Industry Safety and Health - reducing the risks (INDG359) [207KB]
• Health and safety training: Guidelines for the waste management and recycling industry (Waste21) [165KB]

Asbestos

• Safe handling of asbestos waste at civic amenity (CA) sites - (WASTE07) [139KB]

Metal recycling and motor vehicle dismantling

• Lead and you (INDG 305) [23KB]
• How to reduce exposure to dioxins in aluminium recycling (INDG377) [30KB]
• Is it explosive? Dangers of explosives in metal recycling (INDG335) [502KB]
  • Is it explosive? dangers of explosives in metal recycling (INDG335p poster) [86KB]
• A guide to the handling and storage of airbags and seat belt pretensioners at garages and motor vehicle repair workshops (INDG280)
• Safe use of petrol in garages (INDG331) [168KB]
• Safe working with vehicle air-conditioning systems. The Does and Don'ts (INDG349) [103KB]
• Hot work on vehicle wheels (Engineering Information Sheet No. 1) [36KB]
• Using electric storage batteries safely (INDG 139) [160KB]
• Working with Nickel - are you at risk? (INDG351) [106KB]
• LPG-fuelled motor vehicles (INDG387) [51KB)
  • LPG-fuelled motor vehicles (INDG387p poster) [81KB]
• The safe recovery of petrol from end-of-life vehicles (WASTE10) [337KB]
• Magnetic lifting devices [33KB]

Guidance on work with liquefied petroleum fuelled vehicles (autogas) can be found on the LPGA website.

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Paper Recycling

• Guidance for the Recovered Paper Industry (INDG392) [523 KB]

Plastics Waste and Recycling

• Plastics Recycling - Plastics Processing Sheet No 2 PPIS2
• Fire and explosion risks from pentane in expandable polystyrene (EPS) PPIS1

Machinery

• Compaction equipment: User and public safety WASTE08 [65KB]
• Baling machine guidance can be found in section 8 of INDG392 - recover paper safely (INDG 392) [523KB]
• Crushing

Transport (industry-specific)

• Safe transport in waste management and recycling facilities - (WASTE09) [215KB]
• Sheeting tipper lorries
• Skip and container safety in waste management and recycling facilities (WASTE06) [211KB]
• Safe use of Skip Loaders (INDG378)

Transport (general)

• Managing Vehicle Safety at the Workplace (INDG199) [266KB]
• Driving at work: Managing work-related road safety (INDG382) [230KB]
• Research report RR018 - Management of work related road safety
• Research report RR020 - The contribution of individual factors to driving behaviour: implications for managing work-related road safety

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Waste Collection

• Safety at 'bring sites' in the waste management and recycling industries (WASTE11) [169KB]
• Hand sorting of recyclables ("totting") with vehicle assistance (WASTE18) [150KB]
• Operating Civic Amenity Sites Safely (WASTE01) [85KB]
• Orphaned compressed gas cylinders in the waste and recycling industries (WASTE03) [91KB]
• Green waste collection - health issues (WASTE02) [61KB]
• Waste and Recycling Vehicles in Street Collection (WASTE04) [220KB]
• Kettering County Council's Reversing Training Film
• The safe use of refuse collection vehicle hoists and bins (WASTE05) [234KB]
• Handling Needles in the Waste and Recycling Industry (WASTE19) [160KB]

Landfill

• Landfill fires - controlling the risk
• Environmental Services Association DSEAR Codes of Practice

Falls from height (general)

• Height safe - Absolutely essential health and safety information for people who work at height [240KB]
• Inspecting fall arrest equipment made from webbing or rope (INDG367) [96KB]

Slips and Trips (general)

• Slips and Trips: Guidance for employers on identifying hazards and controlling risks HSG 155 HSE Books 1996 ISBN 0717611450
• Preventing slips and trips at work (INDG225 rev 1) [219KB]
• HSE Slips and Trips website

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Manual handling and musculoskeletal disorders

• Ergonomic Considerations for Designing and Selecting Conveyor Belt Systems [861KB]
• Manual Handling: Guidance on the Regulations (ISBN 071762823X)
• Upper Limb Disorders in the Workplace (ISBN 0 7176 1978 8)
• Manual handling : solutions you can handle (ISBN 0717606937)
• A pain in your workplace? Ergonomic problems and solutions (ISBN 0 7176 0668 6)
• HSE Manual handling website
• Magnetic lifting devices

General

• Stay clean - stay healthy: Looking after your health in the waste/recycling industry (INDG415] [169KB]
• Health hazards in the waste and recycling industry (Waste15) [170KB]
• Work equipment and machinery
• Supplying new machinery: a short guide (INDG270)
• Buying new machinery: a short guide (INDG271)
• Simple guide to the Provision and use of Work Equipment regulations 1998 (INDG291) [43KB]
• Do you use a steam/water pressure cleaner? (INDG68) [925KB]
• Five steps to risk assessment (INDG163) [664KB]
• Management of Health and Safety at Work (ISBN 0717624889)
• Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare (ISBN 0 7176 0413 6)
• Risk assessment

Managing Health & Safety

• Managing 'task and finish' to reduce safety risks (WASTE17) [177KB)

Research

• RR609 – Collecting, transfer, treatment and processing household waste and recyclables – a tool to help organisations select the most appropriate system (in terms of health and safety risk).
• HSL/2006/25 - research examines ergonomics of box collections - Manual handling in kerbside collection and sorting of recyclables
• RR130 - Occupational and environmental exposure to bioaerosols from composts and potential health effects - A critical review of published data
• RR240 - Mapping health and safety standards in the UK waste industry
• HSL/2002/21 - Manual handling in refuse collection
• RR620 Review of targeted initiatives in the manufacturing sector

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Guidance

HSE is currently working with the Waste Industry Safety and Health (WISH) forum to produce 'best practice' guidance on:

• Refuse collection and Musculoskeletal risks
• Slips, Trips and Falls in the Waste Industry
• Sheeting and unsheeting vehicles

WISH are also currently preparing a range of 'powerpoint' 'Toolbox Talks' for use by the industry.

All of the above planned guidance will appear on this website when they have been agreed by HSE and the WISH forum.

Non-HSE publications

PINDER, A.D.J., MILNES, E. (2003) Manual handling in refuse collection: reducing risk of musculoskeletal disorders. McCabe P.T. (ed), Contemporary Ergonomics 2003, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0-415-30994-8, 26-31.

• Working safely in the refuse and recycling – an induction DVD, contact info@nogoingbackproductions.com
• Health and safety in the waste management industry, an interactive induction CD.  For a free copy of the CD please contact Energy & Utility Skills via enquiries@euskills.co.uk or 0845 0779922
• Waste Industry Safety and Health - Refuse collection - (GMB publication)
• 'Management of Refuse Driving Operations' - A non HSE publication produced by the Northamptonshire Local Authority Safety Group and available from bob.mason@kettering.gov.uk

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