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HSE Research Ethics Committee - Committee Information

ETHCOM/AG/08/04

Health and Safety Executive Research Ethics Committee

The forty-seventh meeting of the Research Ethics Committee will be held on Wednesday 26 November 2008 in the Fortune Room, Rose Court, London

The meeting will begin at 11.00am


  1. Introductions and apologies
  2. Minutes of the forty-sixth meeting – 2 September 2008 (ETHCOM/MIN/08/03)
    Matters arising (not covered by agenda)
    1. Update on proposals considered at the forty-sixth meeting  
      1. Quantification of dispersal for household chemicals (ETHCOM/REG/08/06)
      2. Generic protocol for use in testing of personal protective equipment (PPE) on human subjects using methods according to British, European or International Standards (ETHCOM/REG/08/07)
      3. The investigation of sonography room space and set-up time requirements (ETHCOM/REG/08/08)
      4. Efficacy of shower procedures used with air-fed suited systems and ergonomics of working in Containment level 4 pathogen laboratories (ETHCOM/REG/08/09).
  3. Medical Secretary's Report (ETHCOM/SEC/08/04)
  4. New proposals for consideration
    1. Pneumatic and IC tools vibration emission standards (ETHCOM/REG/08/10)
    2. The Pesticide Users Health Study (PUHS) (ETHCOM/REG/08/11)
  5. Any other business
  6. Date of next meeting
    1. Formal declarations of interest in proposals considered at the meeting
    2. Proposals