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HSE Research Ethics Committee - Committee Information

ETHCOM/AG/07/01

Health and Safety Executive Research Ethics Committee

The forty-second meeting of the Research Ethics Committee will be held on Monday 12 March 2007 in the Fortune Room, Rose Court, London.

The meeting will begin at 11.00am

Agenda

  1. Introductions and apologies
  2. Minutes of the forty-first meeting – 4 December 2006 (ETHCOM/MIN/06/03). Matters arising (not covered by agenda)
    1. Update on proposals considered at the forty-first meeting
      1. Testing of hood/wearer seal in Chemical Personal Protective Equipment clothing ensembles (ETHCOM/REG/06/08)
      2. A study to compare gloves that protect hands during hairdressing work (ETHCOM/REG/06/09)
      3. Health issues in the hairdressing industry (ETHCOM/REG/06/10)
      • para 14(i) – Mr Morland to write to Ms Brett-Holt on a suitable form of words
      • para 23 - Secretariat to notify HSE Chief Scientist of the REC concerns
  3. Medical Secretary's Report (oral report)
  4. New proposal for consideration
    1. The Testing of the Practical and Protection Performance of Escape Respiratory Protective Equipment at Two Extremes of Temperature (ETHCOM/REG/07/01)         
  5. Any other business
    1. Use of volunteer saliva and tear duct fluid samples & Use of cosmetic human skin samples (UK Human Tissue Bank) (ETHCOM/REG/06/11) – author’s response to Committee points from 4 December meeting
    2. Paper for consideration by the Committee: Personal protective equipment testing subjects and protocols  
  6. Date of next meeting