Acronyms and Abbreviations used in HSE - B

Acronym: Description
BA: Breathing apparatus
BA: Biological agent
BACS: Bankers automated clearing services
BACTA: British Amusement Catering Trades Association
BAFO: Best and final offer
BALPPA: British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions
BAM: Bundesanstalt fur Materialprufung
BAPE: Benign asbestos pleural effusion
BASEEFA *: British Approvals Service for Electrical Equipment in Flammable Atmospheres (until July 2003)
BAT: Best available techniques
BAT: Biological Tolerance Value (Biologischer Arbeitsstoff-Toleranz-Wert)
BATNEEC: Best available techniques not entailing excessive cost
BAU: Bundesanstalt fur Arbeitsschutz und Unfallforschung
BCA: Building Control Authority
BCC: Biocides Consultative Committee
BCC: British Ceramic Confederation
BCECA: British Chemical Engineering Contractors Association
BCF: Bromochlorodifluoromethane
BCMC: British Cable Makers Confederation
BCME: Bis chloromethyl ether
BCRU: British Committee on Radiological Units
BEI: Biological exposure indices
BEL: Biological exposure limits
BEM: Business excellence model
BEBOH: British Examining Board in Occupational Hygiene
BERSA: British Elastic Rope Sports Association
BEU *: Business efficiency unit
BEUC: European Consumers' Bureau
BEWA: British Effluent And Water Association
BFI: Benefit Fraud Inspectorate
BG: British Gas
BGH: Bundesgerichtshof (Germany)
BGS: British Geological Survey
BHSS: British Health and Safety Society
BIAT: British Institute of Architectural Technologists
BIMBO: Buy in management buy out
BIOH: British Institute of Occupational Hygiene
BIP: Business improvement programme
Bis CME: Bis chloromethyl ether
BLEVE: Boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion
BLR: Blue light radiation
BMA: Bundesministerium fuer Arbeit und Sozialordnung (Germany)
BMHB: British Materials Handling Board
BMTA: British Measurement and Testing Association
BNS: Bureau de Normalisation de la Siderurgie (France)
BNTA: Bureau de Normalisation du Tube Acier (France)
BOHS: British Occupational Hygiene Society
BOO: Build own operate
BOP: Balance of plant
BPBIF: British Paper and Board Industry Federation
BPCA: British Pest Control Association
BPD: Biocidal Products Directive
BPEO: Best practicable environmental option
BPF: British Property Federation
BPM: Best practicable means
BRAC: Building Regulations Advisory Committee
BRE: Building Research Establishment
BREF: Best available techniques reference documents
BREL: British Rail Engineering Limited
BRIB: Better Regulation and International Branch
BRINDEX: Association of British Independent Oil Corporation Companies
BROA: British Rig Owners Association
BRTF: Better Regulation Task Force
BRU: Better Regulation Unit
BSA: Business Software Alliance
BSC: Balanced scorecard
BSD *: Business Services Division
BSE: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
BSI: British Standards Institution
BSO: Basic safety objective
BSOR: Borehole Sites and Operations Regulations
BSR: Board of Standards Review (ANSI)
BSS: Basic Safety Standards Directive
BSTSA: British Surface Treatment Suppliers Association
BTL: Better team leadership
BTM: Bromotrifluoromethane
BTP: British Transport Police
BTS: Bureau Technique Syndical Europ' en par la Sant' et la Securit' (Belgium)
BVS: Bergbau Versuchsstrecke (W. Germany)
BWF: British Woodworking Federation
BWR: Boiling water reactor