Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Organisations
Chesterfield House, 385 Euston Road, London NW1 3AU
Status: Charitable
Principal functions and activities: The Haemophilia Society represents all people with haemophilia and related bleeding disorders and provides information to those who are affected and others who wish to learn about the condition.
12 David House, 45 High Street, London SE25 6HJ
Status: The statutory authority for hairdressers.
Principal functions and activities: Maintaining the (state) register of qualified hairdressers; striving to raise standards of safety and practice; fielding and advising on complaints from consumers (over 3,000 in 2001); publishing magazines and newsletters for registered hairdressers.
1 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA
Status: Registered charity
Principal functions and activities: To provide a national focus for interdisciplinary engineering and other matters involved in the mitigation and reduction of hazards and disasters.
PO Box 199, Sheffield S1 4YL
Status: Not-for-profit company
Principal functions and activities: Publisher of health and safety information for trade union safety representatives and also a wider global audience. Publisher of the International Labour website of the year 2000: www.hazards.org
Murray House, Mount Havelock, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2SF
Status: Health and safety at work enforcing authority
Principal functions and activities: To promote and secure compliance with occupational health and safety standards at places of work through inspection, educaiton and enforcement and to safeguard the health and safety of the public where this might be adversely affected by work activities.
Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS
Redgrave Court, Merton Rd, Bootle, Merseyside L20 &HS
Status: Non-departmental public body.
Principal functions and activities: The Health and Safety Executive is the government body responsible for occupational health and safety regulation in Great Britain.
Priced publications can be ordered through HSE Books and all good bookshops, with the exception of legislation and a small number of joint publications by HSE and other government departments which will be available from the Stationery Office. Most free publications/leaflets are also available from HSE Books.
HSE Books, P.O. Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2WA
HSELINE is HSE's publicly available database provided by three host services:
83 Ladas Drive, Belfast BT6 9FR
Status: Non-departmental public body
Principal functions and activities: HSENI is the enforcing authority for health and safety in a range of work situations including: manufacturing, chemical plants, construction, transport, gas supply and distribution, agriculture, mines and quarries, schools and universities, hospitals and nursing homes, disciplined services, district councils, government departments and fairgrounds.
Harpur Hill, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 9JN, UK
Status: Agency of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Principal functions and activities: Set up in 1975 as the Research and Laboratory Services Division of the Health and Safety Executive, renamed as the Health and Safety Laboratory and acquired agency status in 1995.
Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET
Status: University establishment, funded by government, research councils, industry and charities.
Principal functions and activities: To carry out research, co-ordinate knowledge, and provide assistance and training in the field of occupational health and safety.
Central Office: 7th Floor, Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn, London WC1V 7BA, UK
See website for contact details for the different Centres within the HPA.
Status: Government agency
Principal functions and activities: Provides a comprehensive health protection service in the areas of infectious diseases, chemical hazards, poisons and radiation.
Esca House, 34 Palace Court, London W2 4JG
Status: A joint committee between employers (Heating and Ventilating Contractors' Association) and union (MSF Craft Sector)
Principal functions and activities: The Joint Safety Committee (JSC) was inaugurated in 1967. Its role is to act as a focal point for all issues relating to health and safety in the heating and ventilating, air-conditioning and refrigeration engineering sectors.