Acronyms and Abbreviations used in HSE
This is a compilation of acronyms and abbreviations commonly used within
HSE. It is based on information gathered from all parts of HSE. Where possible
we have verified the information from printed sources. Abbreviations readily
available elsewhere, have not been included in this edition.
Information is arranged alphabetically. Those entries marked with an asterisk
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A
- Acronym
- Description
- AAIAC *
- Adventure Activities Industry Advisory
Committee
- AALA
- Adventure Activities Licensing Authority
- AALS
- Adventure Activities Licensing Committee
- ABCA
- Military standards body for
US, UK, Canada and Australia
- ABCB
- Association of
British Certification Bodies
- ABCL
- Automatic barrier crossing, locally monitored
- ABE
- Association of Building Engineers
- ABM
- Activity based management
- ABNT
- Associacao Brasileira de Normas Tecnicas (Brazil)
- AC
- Advisory committee
- AC
- Asbestos cement
- ACA
- Association of Consultant
Architects
- ACAI
- Alkali and Clean Air Inspectorate
(see IAPI) now Environment Agency
- ACAS
- Advisory,
Conciliation and Arbitration Service
- ACDP *
-
Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens
- ACDS *
-
Advisory Committee on Dangerous Substances
- ACE
-
Association for Consultancy and Engineering
- ACES
- Amusement
Catering Equipment Society
- ACGM *
- Advisory
Committee on Genetic Modification
- ACL
-
Approved Carriage List
- ACM
-
Asbestos-containing material
- ACOP
- Approved Code of Practice
- ACP
- Advisory Committee on Pesticides
- ACRE
- Advisory Committee on Releases to the
Environment
- ACTS *
- Advisory
Committee on Toxic Substances
- AD
*
- Area Director now Operations Manager
- ADI
- Acceptable daily intake
- ADN
-
European provisions concerning the international carriage of
dangerous goods by inland waterways
- ADR
- Accord
dangereux routier (European agreement concerning the international
carriage of dangerous goods by road)
- ADS *
-
Approved Dosimetry Service
- AEAT
- AEA Technology
PLC
- AENOR
- Asociacion Espanola de
Normalizacion y Certificacion
- AFAIRP
- As far as is reasonably practicable
- AFCD
- Automatic
flue closing device
- AFFF
- Aqueous film forming foam
- AFNOR
- Association Francaise de Normalisation
- AFP
- Alphafetoprotein
- AGR
- Advanced gas-cooled reactor
- AHB
- Automatic half barrier
- AHERA
-
Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act
- AI
-
Active ingredient
- AIA
- Asbestos International
Association
- AIAC *
- Agriculture Industry Advisory
Committee
- AIB
- Asbestos Insulation Board
- AIC
- Active instability control
- AIDII
- Associazone Italiana Degli Igienisti
Industriali
- AIDS
- Acquired immunedeficiency
syndrome
- AIFTA
- Anglo-Irish Free Trade Agreement
- AIOSH
- Associate of the Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health
- AIRMIC
- Association of Insurance and Risk
Managers in Industry and Commerce
- AIST
- Agency of
Industrial Science and Technology
- AIT
-
Auto(geneous) ignition temperature
- ALARA
- As low as reasonably achievable
- ALARP
- As low as reasonably practicable
- ALG
- Association of London Government
- ALI
- Annual limit of intake
- ALIBI
-
Assessment of LPG installations for Bleve incidents
- ALPI
*
- Asbestos Licensing Principal Inspector
- ALU
- Asbestos Licensing Unit
- AM
*
- Administration manager
- AMAG
-
Agricultural Machinery Advisory Group
- AMFO
-
Arbetsmiljofonden (Sweden)
- AMPS
- Association of
Management and Professional Staff
- ANC
- Association of Noise Consultants
- ANEC
- Association Normalisation Europeenne pour les
Consommateurs
- ANFO
- Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil
- ANHMRC
- Australian National Health and Medical
Research Council
- ANPAT
- Association Nationale pour
la Prevention des Accidents du Travail (Brussels)
- ANPR
- Automatic number plate recognition
- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute
- AO *
- Area office now Regional office
- AOCL
- Automatic open crossing, locally monitored
- AOCR
- Automatic open crossing, remotely monitored
- AOCTs
- Associated Overseas Countries and
Territories
- AOPD
- Active opto-electronic protection
device
- APAU *
- Accident Prevention Advisory Unit now
Operations Unit
- APB
- Auditing Practices Board
- APBL
- Automatic power boom lowering (system)
- APE
- Aerosol photoemission
- APE
-
Association of Planning Engineers
- APELL
- Awareness
and preparedness for emergencies at local level
- API
- American Petroleum Institute
- APOSC
- Assessment principles for offshore safety cases
- APPA
- American Public Power Association
- APS
- Association of Planning Supervisors
- AR
- Acoustic reflex
- ARC
-
Accelerating rate calorimetry
- ARC
- Audit
Registration Committee
- ARCA
- Asbestos Removal
Contractors Association
- AREC
- Association of
Research Ethics Committees
- ARL
- Department of
Community Services and Health Australian Radiation Laboratory
- ARPS
- Association of Railway Preservation Societies
- ARTPR
- Approved Requirements for Transportable
Pressure Receptacles
- ASAC
-
Asian Standards Advisory Committee
- ASB
- Accounting
Standards Board
- ASFP
- Association for Specialist
Fire Protection
- ASHRAE
- American Society of
Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers
- ASHW
- Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare
Provisions) Act 1956
- ASI
- Architect and Surveying
Institute
- ASLI
- Automatic safe load indicator
- ASLIC
- Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations
- ASME
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- ASNT
- American Society for Nondestructive Testing
- ASO
- Assistant Scientific Officer
- ASP
- Accident sequence precursor
- ASQ
- American Society for Quality
- ASS
- National Board of Occupational Safety and
Health (Sweden)
- ASSE
- American Society of Safety
Engineers
- ASTA
- Association of Short-circuit
Testing Authorities
- ASTM
- American Society for
Testing and Materials
- ATC
-
Automatic train control
- ATEX
- Atmosphere Explosiv
(used in the context of two European Directives, 94/9/EC and
1999/92/EC)
- ATO
- Automatic train operation
- ATP
- Automatic train protection
- ATR
- Approved Tank Requirements
- ATSDR
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry
- ATV
- All-terrain vehicle
- ATWS
- Anticipated transient without scram
- ATWT
- Anticipated transient without trip
- AU
- Accounting unit
- AURPO
-
Association of University Radiation Protection Officers
- AWE
- Atomic Weapons Establishment
- AWS
- Automatic warning system
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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 back to top
- 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
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C
- Acronym
- Description
- C & I
-
Control and Instrumentation
- CA
- Certifying
authority
- CA(BA)
- Compressed air (breathing
apparatus)
- CAC
- Codex Alimentarius Commission
- CADD
- Computer-aided design drafting
- CAER
- Community Awareness and Emergency Response
(Chemical Manufacturers Association)
- CAIRS
-
Canadian Institute for Radiation Safety
- CAM
-
Computer aided manufacture
- CAMEO
- Computer-aided
management of emergency operations
- CAMR
- Centre for
Applied Microbiology and Research
- CANDU
- A Canadian
developed reactor deriving its name from Canadian deuterium uranium
- CANMET-DEMR
- Canada Center for Mineral and Energy
Technology - Department of Energy, Mines and Resources
- CANUTEC
- Canadian Transport Emergency Center
- CAPM
- Computer-aided production management
- CAPS
- Computer aided planning system
- CARICOM
- Caribbean Community and Common Market
(formerly CARIFTA)
- CARIFTA
- See CARICOM
- CAS
- Chemical Abstracts Service
- CASE
- Council for Associated Stock Exchanges
- CAT
- Cable avoiding tool
- CAWR
-
Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations
- CBI
- Confederation of British Industry
- CBN
- Cubic boron nitride
- CBNM
-
Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements
- CBP
-
Construction best practice
- CBT
- Computer based
training
- CC
- Construction Confederation
- CCA
- Compliance cost assessment
- CCAB
- Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies
- CCC
- Confederation of Construction Clients
- CCCN
- Customs Cooperation Council Nomenclature (EC)
- CCD
- Charge coupled device
- CCE
-
Commission of the European Communities
- CCE
-
Computer controlled equipment
- CCF
- Common cause
failures (see PES)
- CCF
- Construction Clients Forum
- CCHARR
- Co-ordinating Committee on Health Aspects
of Radiation
Research
- CCIT
- International Telegraph and
Telephone Consultative Committee
- CCNSG
- Client
Contractor National Safety Group
- CCOU
- Construction
Central Operations Unit
- CCScheme
- Considerate
Constructor Scheme
- CCTA
- Central Computer and
Telecommunications Agency
- CD
- Central Division (Hazardous Installations Directorate)
- CD
-
Consultation distance
- CD
- Consultative document
- CDA
- Controlled droplet application
- CDC
- Centers for Disease Control (USA)
- CDFR
- Commercial demonstration fast reactor
- CDG Rail
- Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail
Regulations
- CDGCPL
- Carriage of Dangerous Goods by
Road and Rail (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) Regulations
- CDM
- Construction Design and Management
- CDR
- Communicable disease report (compiled by CDSC)
- CD-ROM
- Compact disc read only memory
- CDSC
- Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre
- CEA
- Chemical Engineering Abstracts (Produced by
the Royal Society of Chemistry)
- CEA-CEN
-
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique-Centre d'Etudes
Nucleaires
- CEC
- Commission of the European
Communities
- CECA
- Civil Engineering Contractors
Association
- CECC
- CENELEC Electronic Components
Committee
- CEDEFOP
- European Centre for the
Development of Vocational Training
- CEDHYS
-
Association des Directeurs des Systemes d'Information de
l'Industrie Pharmaceutique
- CEE
- Communaute
Economique Europeenne (French for EEC)
- CEE
-
Communita Economica Europea (Italian for EEC)
- CEE
-
International Commission on Rules for the Approval of Electrical
Equipment
- CEEC
- Central and eastern European
countries
- CEEFA
- Committee for Electrical Equipment
for use in Flammable Atmospheres (committee representing BEAMA)
- CEEMAC *
- Certification of Electrical Equipment for
Mining Advisory Council
- CEEP
- Centre Europeen de
l'Entreprise Publique
- CEF
- Cluster enhanced
filter
- CEF
- Comite Electrotechnique Francais
- CEFIC
- European Chemical Industry Council
- CEFLC
- European Council of Chemical Manufacturers
Federation
- CEHO
- Chief Environmental Health Officer
- CEI
- Council of Engineering Institutions
- CEMEC
- European Centre for Disaster Management
- CEN
- Comite Europeen de Normalisation
- CENCER
- CEN's certification body
- CENELEC
- Comite Europeen de Normalisation
Electrotechnique
- CEOC
- Colloque Europeen des
Organismes de Controle
- CEPS
- Central Expertise Policy and Support
- CEPT
- Conference Europeenne
des Administrations des Postes et des Telecommunications
- CER
- Carriage of Explosives Regulations
- CERCHAR
- Centre d'Etudes et Recherches des
Charbonnages de France
- CERCLA
- Comprehensive
Environment Response Compensation and Liability Act (USA)
- CERD
- Comite Europeen de Recherche et Developpment
- CERIAC *
- Ceramics Industry Advisory Committee
- CERTICO
- Certification Committee of ISO
- CESD
- Communications Electronics Security
Department
- CESI
- Centro Elettrotecnico Sperimentale
Italiano (Italy)
- CET
- Corrected effective
temperature
- CFD
-
Computational fluid dynamics
- CFDRA
- Campden Food
and Drink Research Association
- CFEs
- Centres of
financial expertise
- CFF
- Common funding formula
(education)
- CFRP
- Carbon fibre reinforced plastic
- CGPM
- General Conference of Weights and Measures
- CGTF
- Central Government Task Force
- CHANs *
- Chemical Hazard Alert Notices
- CHAS
- Contractors Health and Safety Assessment
Scheme
- CHCS
- Chemical Hazards Communications
Society
- CHEMAG
- Chemicals in Agriculture Advisory
Group
- CHEMFAX *
- Computerised database with
Chemicals NIG
- CHEMSAFE
- Chemical Industry Scheme
for Assistance in Freight
- CHEMTREC
- Chemical
Transportation Emergency Center (USA)
- CHID *
-
Chemicals and Hazardous Installations Division
- CHIEF
- Customs handling of import and export
freight
- CHIMP
- Commission for Health Improvement
- CHIP
- Chemical (Hazard Information and Packaging)
Regulations
- CHP
- Combined heat and power
- CHSC
- Corporate health and safety committee
- CHSG
- Construction Health and Safety Group
- CHSW
- Construction (Health Safety and Welfare)
Regulations
- CI
- Chief
Inspector
- CIAg *
- Chief Inspector of Agriculture
- CIB
- Chartered Institute of Building
- CIB
- Construction Industry Board
- CIBSE
- Chartered Institution of Building Services
Engineers
- CIC
- CID
- Occupational Medicine and Hygiene Laboratory
- Chemical Industries Division
- CIDI
- Central Index of Dose Information
- CIDST
- Comite d'Information et de Documentation
Scientifique et Technique
- CIEC
- Construction
Industry Employers' Council
- CIEH
- Chartered
Institute of Environmental Health
- CIM *
- Chief
Inspector's Memo
- CIM
- International Convention
Concerning the Carriage of Goods by Rail
- CIMAH
-
Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards Regulations
- CIOB
- Chartered Institute of Building
- CIRC
- Centre International de Recherche sur le
Cancer (France)
- CIS
- International Occupational
Safety and Health Information Centre
- CISDOC
-
International Labour Organisation database available on OSHROM
- CISPR
- Comite International Special des
Perturbations Radioelectriques
- CITB
- Construction
Industry Training Board
- CJD
-
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- CLA
- Copyright
Licensing Authority
- CLASP
- Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme
- CLAW
- Control of Lead at Work
Regulations 1980
- CLEANAIR
- Campaign for a
Smoke-Free Environment
- CLEAR
- Campaign for
Lead-Free Air
- CLECAT
- Comite de liaison Europeen
des commissionnaires et auxiliaires de transports du marche commun
- CLER
- Classification and Labelling of Explosives
Regulations
- CLG
- Constructors liaison group
- CLP
- Classification Packaging and Labelling
- CM
- Case manager
- CM
- Command (paper) 1987 -
- CME
-
Chloromethyl ether
- Cmnd
- Command (paper) 1958 -
1986
- CMO
- Chief Medical Officer
- CN
- Case note
- CNC
- Computer numerical control
- CNRS
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(Paris)
- CNS
- Comite de Normalisation de la Soudure
(France)
- CO
- Carbon monoxide
- CO
- Clerical Officer (now Administrative Officer)
- COAD
- Chronic obstructive airways disease
- COBRA
- Cabinet Office Briefing Room A
- (Code) IN
- Inspection (code)
- (Code)
LCA
- Legal Commentary - Acts (Code)
- (Code)
LCR
- Legal Commentary - Regulations (Code)
- (Code)
LP
- Legal Proceedings (Code)
- (Code) LPS
-
Legal Proceedings - Scotland (Code)
- (Code) OP
-
Office Procedures (Code)
- (Code) OR
- Organisation
(Code)
- CODEX
- Codex Alimentarius Commission
- COE
- Council of Europe
- COFFIN*
- Construction and factory fatal information
(database)
- COFREND
- Comite Francais des Essais Non
Destructifs
- COGEMA
- Compagnie General des Matieres
Nucleaires
- COGENE
- Committee on Genetic
Experimentation
- COI
- Critical oxygen index
- COIN
- Corporate Operational Information
- COIT
- Central Office of Industrial Tribunals
- COMAH
- Control of Major Accident Hazards
- COMARE
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation
in the Environment
- COMITEXTIL
- Comite de
Coordination des Industries Textiles de la CEE
- COMMETT
- EEC programme in Education and Training
for Technology
- CONCAWE
- Oil Companies European
Organization for Environment, Health and Safety (Belgium)
- CONDAM
- Construction Design and Management
Regulations
- ConDoc *
- Consultative Document
- CONIAC *
- Construction Industry Advisory Committee
- COP
- Code of Practice
- COPA
- Control
of Pollution Act
- COPANT
- Pan American Standards
Commission
- COPD
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease
- COPOLCO
- Committee on Consumer Policy (ISO)
- COPR
- Control of Pesticides Regulations
- COREPER
- Committee of Permanent Representatives to
the European Communities
- CORGI
- Council for
Registered Gas Installers
- COSAS
- Corporate Science and Analytical Services Division
- COSHH
- Control of
Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations
- COSLA
-
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
- COST
-
Cooperation Europeenne dans la Domaine de la Recherche Scientifique
et Technique
- COT
- Committee on Toxicity in Food,
Consumer Products and the Environment
- COVENIN
-
Comision Venezolana de Norma Industriales (Venezuela)
- CP
- Code of Practice
- CPA
- Construction Products Association
- CPA
- Crop Protection Association
- CPC
- Chemical protective clothing
- CPIG
- Crown Premises Inspection Group
- CPL
- Classification, Packaging and Labelling of
Dangerous Substances Regulations 1984
- CPR
-
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- CPS
- Crown
Prosecution Service
- CRA
- Chemical Recovery
Association
- CRB
- Criminal Records Bureau
- CRE
- Coal Research Establishment (part of BCC)
- CREST
- Comite de Recherche Scientifique et
Technique (European Community)
- CREIPI
- Central
Research Institute of Electric Power Institute (Japan)
- CRMP
- Corporate risk management plan
- CSAT
- Civil Service Arbitration
Tribunal
- CSBF
- Civil Service Benevolent Fund
- CSBTS
- China State Bureau of Technical Supervision
- CSC
- Civil Service College
- CSC
-
Civil Service Commission
- CSC
- (International)
Convention for Safe Containers
- CSCS
- Construction
Skills Certification Scheme
- CSIS
- Civil Service
Insurance Society
- CSNWC
- Civil Service National
Whitley Council
- CSOHS
- Civil Service Occupational
Health Service
- CSPA
- Civil Service Pensioners
Alliance
- CSR
- Comprehensive spending reviews
- CSR
- Corporate social responsibility
- CSRF
- Civil Service Retirement Fellowship
- CSSA
- Computer Services and Software Association
- CSTP
- Committee on Scientific and Technological
Policy (OECD)
- CSTU
- Control Systems Technology
Committee
- CTD
- Cumulative
trauma disorder
- CTG
- Corporate topic group
- CTI
- Castings Technology
International
- CTMU
- Central Training Management
Unit
- CTPV
- Coal tar pitch volatiles
- CTS
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- CTSA
-
Channel Tunnel Safety Authority
- CUE
- Common
user estate
- CV
- Calorific value
- CV
- Check visit
- CVCS
- Chemical and
volume control system
- CVD
- Cardiovascular disease
- CVS
- Chorionic villus sampling
- CWR
- Continuous welded rail
- CZ
-
Consultation zone
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D
- Acronym
- Description
- dB
-
Decibels
- DB
- Dry bulb
- dB(A)
-
Decibels on the A weighted scale
- DBA
- Design basis
accident
- DBFO
- Design build finance operate
- DC
- Direct chill (casting)
- DCEHO
-
Deputy Chief Environmental Health Officer
- DCI *
-
Decided Cases Index
- DCI *
- Deputy Chief Inspector
- DCIF *
- Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories
- DCIO
- Deputy Chief Inspecting Officer (of Railways)
- DCLG
- Department for Communities and Local Government
- DCM
- Deputy Case Manager
- DCMS
- Department of Culture Media and Sport
- DCOA
- Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994
- DCPD
- Dicyclopentadiene
- D/D
- Division/Directorate
- DD
- Divisional Director
- DDG *
- Deputy Director General
- DDPH
- Deputy Director of Public Health
- DE
- Department of Employment now Department for
Education and Employment
- DEF STAN
- Defence
Standards
- DEFRA
- Department for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs
- DEHO
- District Environmental
Health Officer
- DEHS
- Director of Environmental
Health Services
- DEL
- Departmental Expenditure Limit
- DEMKO
- Danmarks Elektriske Materielkontrol
(Denmark)
- DEMU
- Diesel-electric multiple unit
- DEn
- Department of Energy wound up in 1992 now part
of DTI
- DERA
- Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
- DEVCO
- Development Committee (ISO)
- DfES
- Department for Education and
Skills
- DFM
- Dust, fume and mist
- DFRS
- Defence Fire and Rescue Service
- DFS
- Defence Fire Service
- DfT
- Department for Transport
- DG
*
- Director General
- DG
- Directorate General
(EC)
- DH
- Department of Health
- DH
- Duty holder
- DIANE
- Direct Information Access Network for Europe
- DIAS *
- Directorate of Information and Advisory
Services. Health and Safety Executive
- DIN
-
Deutsches Institut fur Normung (German Standards Institute)
- DIP
- Document image processing
- DIS
-
Draft International Standard
- DISP
- Duty Holder Intervention Strategy Planning Board
- DL
- Distance learning
- DLR
-
Docklands Light Railway
- DMB
- Divisional
Management Board
- DMU
- Diesel multiple unit
- DNA
- Deoxyribonucleic acid
- DNB
-
Departure from nucleate boiling
- DNHPD
- Department
of National Health and Population Department (South Africa)
- DO
- Dangerous occurrence
- DoE
-
Department of the Environment now Department for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs
- DOE
- Department of Energy (United
States)
- DOL
- Department of Labor (United States)
- DOT
- Department of Transport now part of Department
Transport, Local Government and the Regions
- DOT
-
Department of Transportation (United States)
- DP
- Disabled person
- DPE
- Duty holder planning event
- DRC
- Disaster
Research Centre (USA)
- DS
- Danish Standards
Association
- DSAC
- Design safety analysis and control
- DSC
- Design safety case
- DSC
- Differential scanning calorimetry
- DSE
- Display screen equipment
- DSEAR
- Dangerous Substances and Explosives
Atmospheres Regulations
- DSHA Regs
- Dangerous
Substances in Harbours and Harbour Areas Regulations
- DSO
- Direct service organisation
- DSS
- Department of Social Security
- DST
*
- Directorate of Science and Technology
- DTA
- Differential thermal analysis
- DTI
- Department of Trade and Industry
- DTLR
- Department for Transport, Local Government
and the Regions
- DTM
- Desk top monitoring
- DVD
- Digital versatile disc
- DVT
- Driver van training
- DWC
- Department Whitley Council
- DWL
- Derived working levels
- DWP
-
Department for Work and Pensions
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E
- Acronym
- Description
- EA
-
Environment Agency
- EA75
- Explosives Act 1875
- EA regs
- Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority)
Regulations
- EAC
- European Agency for Cooperation
(EC)
- EAE
- Evidence analysis and evaluation
- EAEC
- European Atomic Energy Community
- EARA
- European Asbestos Removal Association
- EAS
- Enterprise allowance scheme
- EASE
- Estimation and assessment of substance
exposure
- EASHW
- European Agency for Safety and
Health at Work
- EAU *
- Economic Advisors' Unit
(part of Policy Unit)
- EAZ
- Education action zone
- EBW
- Electron beam welding
- EC
- European Commission
- EC
-
European Communities
- ECA
- Electrical Contractors
Association
- ECA
- Economic Commission for Africa
(UN)
- ECA
- European Chemicals Agency
- ECAC
- European Civil Aviation Conference
- ECCS
- Emergency core cooling system
- ECDIN
- Environmental Chemical Data Information
Network (EC)
- ECE
- Economic Commission for Europe
(UN)
- ECETOC
- European Chemical Industry Ecology and
Toxicology Centre
- ECG
- European co-operation
grouping
- ECGD
- Export Credits Guarantee Department
- ECIA
- Engineering Construction Industry Association
- ECIS
- European Communities Information Service
- ECISS
- European Committee for Iron and Steel
Standardisation
- ECITC
- European Committee for I.T.
Testing and Certification
- ECL
- Exposure control
limit
- ECMA
- European Computer Manufacturers
Association
- ECOIN
- European core inventory
- ECS
- Empty coaching stock
- ECSU *
-
Electrical Certification Support Unit
- ED
- Employment Department now Department for
Education and Skills
- EDG
- Employment Department
Group
- EDI
- Electronic data interchange
- EDO
- Estate duty office
- EDTA
-
Ethylene diaminetetraacetic acid
- EEB
- European
Environmental Bureau
- EECMB *
- Electrical Equipment
Certification Management Board
- EECS *
- Electrical
Equipment Certification Service
- EEF
- Engineering
Employers Federation
- EEG
- Europese Economische
Gemeenschap (Dutch for EEC)
- EEI
- Edison Electric
Institute
- EEL
- Emergency exposure limit
- EEMUA
- Engineering
Equipment and Materials Users Association
- EER
- Emergency evacuation and rescue
- EER
- Evacuation, escape and rescue
- EERA
- Evacuation, escape and rescue assessment
- EFL
*
- Explosion and Flame Laboratory, now part of HSL
- EFTA
- European Free Trade Association
- EHO
- Environmental health officer
- EHSR
- Essential health and safety requirement
- EI *
- (HM) Explosives Inspectorate
- EIA
- Environmental impact assessment
- EIC
- Energy
Industries Council
- EINECS
- European Inventory of
Existing Commercial Chemical Substances
- ELCB
-
Earth leakage circuit breaker
- ELCI
- Employers'
Liability Compulsory Insurance
- ELF
- Extra low
frequency
- ELINCS
- European list of notified
chemical substances
- ELO *
- Enforcement liaison
officer
- EM *
- Explanatory memorandum
- EMA *
- Employment Medical Adviser
- EMAS *
- Employment Medical Advisory Service
- EMR
- Electromagnetic radiation
- EMSU
*
- Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit
- EMU
- Electrical multiple unit
- EMU
-
European Economic and Monetary Union
- EN
- European Standard
- ENA *
-
Employment Nursing Adviser
- ENB
- Explosives Notified
Body
- EO
- Ethylene oxide
- EO
-
Executive Officer
- EOF
- Europaeiske Okonomiske
Faellesskab (Danish for EEC)
- EOTC
- European
Organisation for Conformity Assessment
- EPA
-
Environmental Protection Act
- EPA
- Environmental
Protection Agency (USA)
- EPI-DERM
- Surveillance
scheme for occupational skin disease
- EPO
- European
Patent Organisation
- EPOCH
- European Programme on
Climatology and Natural Hazards
- EPS
- Enforcement policy statement
- EPS
- European
Pre-standard
- ERB
- Engineers Registration Board
(CEI)
- ERIC
- Emergency response intervention card
- ERL
- Emergency reference level
- ES
- Ergonomics Society
- ESAC
*
- Education Services Advisory Committee
- ESB
*
- Executive Support Branch now Senior Management Support
Unit
- ESC
- Economic and Social Committee (EC)
- ESD
- Emergency shutdown device
- ESF
-
European Social Fund
- ESFR
- Early suppression fast
response
- ESH
- Electric surface heating
- ESP
- Electrostatic precipitator
- ESPRIT
- European Strategic Programme for Research
and Development in Information Technology
- ESRA
-
European Safety and Reliability Association
- ESReDA
-
European Safety Reliability and Data Association
- ESTC
- Explosives Storage and Transport Committee
- ETS
- Environmental tobacco
smoke
- ETS
- European Telecommunications Standards
- ETSI
- European Telecommunications Standards
Institute
- ETVA
- Elektrotechnische Versuchsanstalt
(Austria)
- EU
- European Union
- EURADOS
- European Radiation Dosimetry Group
- EURATOM
- European Atomic Energy Community
- EUROCONTROL
- European Organisation for the Safety
of Air Navigation
- EUROCOOP
- European Community of
Consumers' Co-operatives
- EUROMAP
- European
Plastics Machinery Suppliers' Association
- EUROSH*NET
- European Occupational Safety and Health
Network
- EUROSTATS
- Series of statistics produced by
the SOEC
- EUROVENT
- European Committee of Air
Handling and Air Conditioning Equipment Manufacturers
- EWC
- European Works Councils
- EWG
-
Europaeische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft
- EXCO
-
Executive Committee (ISO)
- EXP
- Expanded polystyrene
- EXTEST
- International Study Group for the
Standardisation of Methods of Testing Explosives
- EZ
- Enterprise zone
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F
- Acronym
- Description
- F &
GPC
- Finance and General Purposes Committee (sub-committee
of NEC)
- F&RA
- Fire and Rescue Authority
- FAC
- Food and Agriculture Committee
- FAO
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations
- FAST
- Federation against Software
Theft
- FASTCo
- Forestry and Arboriculture Safety and
Training Council
- FBG
- Fluidised bed generator
- FCG *
- Field Consultant Group
- FC(SP)R
- Fire Certificate (Special Premises) Regulations 1976
- FDA
- Food and Drug Administration (USA)
- FDA
- Association of First Division Civil Servants
- FDIS
- Final Draft International Standard
- FEPA
- Food and Environment Protection Act
- FER
- Fundamental Expenditure Review
- FFI
- Flexible film isolator
- FI *
- (HM) Factory Inspectorate
- FIAC
*
- Foundries Industry Advisory Committee
- FIC
*
- Factory Inspectorate (Subject File) Circular
- FIM
*
- Factory Inspectorate Minute
- FIN *
-
Factory Inspectorate Note
- FINU *
- Finance Unit
(part of Resources and Planning Directorate)
- FIRA
-
Furniture Industry Research Association
- FIRAC *
-
Factory Inspectorate Research Advisory Committee
- FISM
*
- Factory Inspectorate Specialist Minute
- FISP
*
- Financial Systems and Payments
- Fit3
- Fit for work, fit for life, fit for tomorrow
- FL
-
Flexileave
- FLP
- Flameproof
- FLT
-
Fork lift truck
- FM
- Factory
Mutual (USA)
- FMAS
- Financial Management Accounting
System
- FMB
- Federation of Master Builders
- FMI
- Financial Management Initiative
- FMU
*
- Field Management Unit
- FOCUS *
- Field
Operations Computer System
- FOD *
- Field Operations
Directorate
- FOD MB
- FOD Management Board
- FOILE
- FOD's iInterventions with large employers
- FOM *
- Fortnightly Operational Minute (issued by
FOD)
- FOPS
- Falling Object Protective Structure(s)
- FOU
- For Official Use
- FP*
- Field Professional
- FPA71
-
Fire Precautions Act 1971
- FPO
- Fire Prevention
Officer
- FPSO
- Floating production storage and
off-loading unit
- FPU *
- Finance and Planning Unit
- FP(W)R
- Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997
- FRAB
- Financial Reporting and
Advisory Board
- FRS
- Financial Reporting Standards
- FRS
- Fire Research Station (part of BRE)
- FSA
- Financial Services Authority
- FSA
- Foreign Service Allowances
- FSA
- Food Standards Agency
- FSAC
-
Food Safety Advisory Centre
- FSBP
- Finger systolic
blood pressure
- FSO
- Fire Safety Officer
- FSO
- Formal Second Opinion
- FSR
- Filter self-rescuer (mining)
- FSSU
*
- Field Scientific Support Unit now Field Services Unit
- FST
- Finger skin temperature
- FSU *
-
Field Services Unit
- FSU
- Floating storage unit
- FSV
- Free steered vehicle
- FWH
-
Flexible working hours
- FWR
- Functional work
recording system
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G
- Acronym
- Description
- GAAP
-
Generally Accepted Accounting Practice
- GAD
- Gas
Appliances Directive
- GAD
- Government Actuaries
Department
- GAE
- General Administrative Expenditure
- GAMBICA
- Association for the Instrumentation,
Control and Automation Industry in the UK
- GATT
-
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- GDO
-
General Development Order
- GDP
- Gross Domestic Product
- GDPO
- General Development
Procedure Order
- GFP
- General fire precautions
- GGF
- Glass and Glazing
Federation
- GHGB
- Good Health
is Good Business
- GIE
- Groupement d'Interet
Economique
- GILSP
- Good industrial large scale
practice
- GLA
- Gangmaster Licensing Authority
- GLA
- Greater London Authority
- GLC
- Gas liquid chromatography
- GLP
- Good laboratory practice
- GLSP
-
Good large scale practice
- GLW
- Gross laden weight
- GM
- Genetically modified
- GM
-
Guidance Memoranda
- GMAW
- Gas metal arc welding
- GMO
- Genetically modified organism
- GN
- Guidance Note
- GN:CS
- Guidance
Note : Chemical Safety
- GN:EH
- Guidance Note :
Environmental Health
- GN:GS
- Guidance Note : General
Series
- GN:MS
- Guidance Note : Medical Series
- GN:PM
- Guidance Note : Plant and Machinery
- GNVQ
- General National Vocational Qualification
- GOST USSR
- State Committee for Standards
- GPA
- Agreement on Government Procurement
- GRP
- Glass reinforced plastic
- GSI
- Government Secure Intranet
- GSMR
- Gas Safety Management Regulations
- GSTP
- Generalised System of Tariff Preferences
- GT
- Globe thermometer
- GTA
-
Government Technical Adviser
- GTAW
- Gas tungsten arc
welding
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H
- Acronym
- Description
- HACCP
-
Hazard analysis critical control point
- HAI
-
Hospital acquired infections
- HAM
- Hand held monitor
- HASAC
- Health and Safety Advice Centre
- HASAWA
- * Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- HASCOG
- Health and Safety Co-ordinating Group
(IEHO)
- HAV
- Hand-arm vibration
- HAV
-
Hepatitis A virus
- HAZAN
- Hazard analysis numerical
methods
- HAZCOM
- Hazards Communication Standard
- HAZOP
- Hazard and Operability Study
- HBIG
- Hepatitis B immunoglobulin
- HBV
- Hepatitis B virus
- HC
- Health Circular (DH)
- HD
-
Harmonization Document
- HD
- * Health Directorate
- HD
- Hodgkins disease
- HECR
-
Highly exothermic chemical reactions
- HEDSET
-
Harmonised electronic data set (European Communities)
- HELA
- * Health and Safety Executive/Local
Authorities Enforcement Liaison Committee
- HEO
-
Higher Executive Officer
- HEPA
- High efficiency
particulate air (refers to high efficiency air filters)
- HEPOL
- * Health and Safety Executive/Police force
Enforcement Liaison Committee
- HES
- Home electronic
systems
- HFL
- Highly flammable liquid
- HGV
- Heavy goods vehicle
- HHE
- Health Hazard Evaluation
- HHS
-
Hypothenar hammer syndrome
- HHSI
- High-head safety
Injection
- HI
- Hazardous installation
- HIA
- Health Impact Assessment
- HID
-
Hazardous Installations Directorate
- HIPU
- *
Hazardous Installations Policy Unit, now part of CHID
- HIV
- Human Immunovirus/immunodeficiency virus
- HMAI
- * Her Majesty's Agricultural
Inspectorate, now part of FOD
- HMAC
- Hazardous
Materials Advisory Council (U.S.A.)
- HMCG
- Her
Majesty's Coastguard
- HMEI
- * Her Majesty's
Explosives Inspectorate
- HMFI
- * Her Majesty's
Factory Inspectorate
- HMIM
- * Her Majesty's
Inspectorate of Mines
- HMIP
- Her Majesty's
Inspectorate of Pollution (part of Environment Agency)
- HMIPI
- Her Majesty's Industrial Pollution
Inspectorate for Scotland
- HMNII
- * Her
Majesty's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate
- HMRI
- * Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate
- HN
- Health Notice (DH)
- HNMR
- High resolution nuclear magnetic resonance
- HO
- Home Office
- HoOPs
- Head of Operations
- HOTL
- Heads of
Testing Laboratories Working Group of the EEC
- HPD
- * Health Policy Division now Health
Directorate
- HPD
- Hearing protection devices
- HPLC
- High performance liquid chromatography
- HPM
- Hazardous production materials
- HPTLC
- High performance thin layer chromatography
- HPV
- High production volume
- HRD
- * Human Resource Development
- HRM
- * Human Resource Management
- HRMB
- * Human Resource Management Branch
- HRR
- Health Risk Review
- HRSC
- Human resources service centre
- HRU
- *
Human Resources Unit
- HSA
-
Hazardous Substances Authority
- HSA
- Health and Safety Adviser
- HSA
- Health and
Safety Authority (Republic of Ireland)
- HSAC
- *
Health Services Advisory Committee
- HSAM
- * Health
and Safety Administrative Minute
- HSAM(GAP)
- * Health
and Safety Administrative Minute (General Administrative
Procedures)
- HSAM(INF)
- * Health and Safety
Administrative Minute (Information)
- HSAM(PM)
- *
Health and Safety Administrative Minute (Personnel Management)
- HSAO
- Health and Safety Awareness Officer
- HSC
- * Health and Safety Commission
- HSCER
- Health and Safety (Consultation with
Employers) Regulations
- HSE
- * Health and Safety
Executive
- HS(EA)
Regs
- * The Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority)
Regulations 1977
- HSE(M)
- * HSE Electrical Equipment
Certification and Approvals Authority (Mining)
- HSELINE
- * HSE Information Services publicly
available computerised database of bibliographic references on
health and safety at work. Also available on OSHROM
- HSEM
- * Health and Safety Executive Minute
- HSENI
- Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland
- HSG
- Health and Safety Guidance Booklet
- HS(G)
- * Health and Safety (Guidance) (Booklet)
- HSK
- Hauptabteilung fuer die Sicherheit der
Kernanlagen Bundesamt fuer Energiewirtschaft (Switzerland)
- HSL
- * Health and Safety Laboratory
- HSO
- Higher Scientific Officer
- HSPL
- Health and Safety Policy Liaison (Department
of Environment)
- HS(R)
- * Health and Safety
(Regulations) (Booklet)
- HST
- High Speed Train
- HSW Act
- Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974
- HSWA
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- HT
- Hazard type
- HT
- High tension (electrical)
- HTLV(III)
- Human T-cell lymphotropic virus
- HTML
- Hypertext mark up language
- HTR
- High temperature reactor
- HV
- High voltage
- HVAC
- Heating,
ventilating and air conditioning
- HVCA
- Heating and
Ventilation Contractors Association
- HWE
-
Healthy Worker Effect
- HWI
- Hazardous Waste
Inspectorate (DoE)
- Hz
- Hertz
- HzSC
- Hazardous Substances Consent
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I
- Acronym
- Description
- IAC *
- Industry Advisory
Committee
- IADC
- International Association of Drilling Contractors
- IAES
- International Academy of
Environmental Safety
- IALI
- International
Association of Labour Inspection
- IAM
- Institute of Advanced Motorists
- IARC
-
International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO)
- IAS
*
- Information and Advisory Services
- IB
- International Branch (part of Policy Unit)
- IBN
- Institut Belge de Normalisation (Belgium)
- ICANN
- International
Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- ICAO
-
International Civil Aviation Organization
- ICAP
-
International Code Assessment and Applications Programme
- ICC
- International Chamber of Commerce
- ICE
- Institute of Chartered Engineers
- ICES
- Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors
- ICFMH
- International Committee on Food Microbiology
and Hygiene
- ICNIRP
- International Commission on
Non-Ionising Radiation Protection
- ICOEH
-
International Commission for Occupational and Environmental Health
- ICOH
- International Commission on Occupational
Health (Singapore)
- ICOMH
- International Committee
on Occupational Mental Health
- ICONE
- Index
Comparatif des Normes Europeenes (comparative index of European
Standards)
- ICPEMC
- International Commission for
Protection Against Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens
- ICRP
- International Commission on Radiological
Protection
- ICRU
- International Commission on
Radiation Units and Measurements
- ICS
- International
Classification for Standards
- ICS
- Investors
Compensation Scheme
- ICSCA
- Industry Co-operation on
Standards and Conformity Assessment
- ID
-
Infectious dose
- ID
- Internal diameter
- IDCAFS
- Inter-departmental Committee on Animal
Feeding Stuffs
- IDE
- Institute of Demolition
Engineers
- IDEA
- Improvement and Development Agency
- IDLH
- Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health
- IEA
- International Energy
Agency (OECD)
- IEB *
- International and Environment
Branch now International Section
- IEC
- International
Electrotechnical Commission
- IECC
- Integrated
Electronic Control Centre
- IECEE
- International
Electrotechnical Commission's Certification Scheme
- IEE
- The Institution of Electrical Engineers
- IEIC
- Independent Engineering Insurers'
Committee
- IER
- Institute of Employment Research now
Institute of Employment Studies
- IES
- Institute for
Employment Studies
- IFAN
- International
Federation for the Application of Standards
- IG
-
Immunoglobulin
- IG *
- Industry Group
- IGUS
- International Group for Unstable Substances
(OECD)
- IHAC
- Industrial Health Advisory
Committee
- IHSSF
- International Healthcare Safety
and Security Foundation
- IIAC
- Industrial
Injuries Advisory Council
- IiP
- Investors in People
- IIRSM
- International Institute of Risk and Safety
Management
- ILA
- Individual
learning account
- ILAC
- International Laboratory
Accreditation Scheme
- ILB
- Industry Lead Body
- ILE
- Institution of Lighting Engineers
- ILGRA
- Interdepartmental Liaison Group on Risk
Assessment
- ILMS *
- Integrated Library Management
System
- ILO
- International Labour Organisation
- ILO *
- Information Liaison Officer
- ILS
- Industrial Law Society
- ILT
-
Industrial Language Training
- ILV
- Indicative Limit
Value (now known as IOELVs - Indicative Occupational Exposure Limit
Values
- ILW
- Intermediate level waste
- ILWS
- Inductive loop warning system
- IM
*
- Information Manager
- IMDG
- International
Maritime Dangerous Goods Code
- IMECHE
- Institution
of Mechanical Engineers
- IMO
- International Maritime
Organization (was IMCO)
- IMS
- Industrial methylated
spirit
- IMT
- Inspection Management Team
- IMU
- Information Management Unit
- IMW
- Institute of Wastes Management
(Northampton)
- IN
- Improvement
Notice
- IN
- Issue Note
- INCOTERMS
- International rules for
interpretation of terms frequently used in foreign trade contracts
- INDG
- Industry Guidance
- IND(G)
- Industry Guidance
- INFCO
- Standing Committee for the Study of
Scientific and Technical Information on Standardization (ISO)
- INFOTERRA
- International Referral System for
Sources of Environmental Information (UN)
- INIEX
-
Institut National des Industries Extractives (Belgium)
- INIS
- International Nuclear Information Service
(IAEA)
- INM
- Institute of Naval Medicine (Royal
Navy)
- INPACT
- Institut pour l'Amelioration des
Conditions de Travail (France)
- INPO
- Institute of
Nuclear Power Operations
- INRS
- Institut National de
Recherche et de Securite (France)
- INSEAD
- Institut
Europeen d'Administration des Affaires
- INSHT
-
Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo (Spain)
- INTERTANKO
- International Association of
Independent Tanker Owners
- INTEREP *
- HSE and
Information Services' computerised database of bibliographic
references to confidential and unpublished documents on health and
safety at work. Restricted to HSE staff
- INTEREX *
-
HSE Information Services computerised database of exchange
agreements with organisations in the UK and abroad
- IO
- Inspecting Officer (of Railways)
- IOD
- Institute of Directors
- IOELV
-
Indicative Occupational Exposure Limit Value
- IOH
-
Institute of Occupational Health (University of Birmingham)
- IOH
- Institution of Occupational Hygienists
- IOHA
- International Occupational Hygiene
Association
- IOM
- Institute of Occupational Medicine
(Edinburgh)
- IOMC
- Interorganisation Programme for
the Sound Management of Chemicals
- IOSH
- Institution
of Occupational Safety and Health
- IP
- Injured
person
- IP
- Institute of Physics
- IPA
- Isopropyl alcohol
- IPC
-
Integrated pollution control
- IPG *
- Information
Planning Group
- IPLA
- HM Inspectorate of
Pollution/LA Enforcement Liaison Committee
- IPMS
-
Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists
- IPPC
- Integrated pollution prevention and control
- IPPR
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- IPR
- Integrated pollution regulation
- IPS
- Integrated Protection System
- IPT
- Insurance Premium Tax
- IQS
- Institute of Quantity Surveyors
- IR
- Infra red
- IR
- Ionising
radiation
- IRAM
- Instituto Argentino de
Racionalizacion de Materiales (Argentina)
- IRIS
-
Integrated Risk Information System (USA)
- IRLR
-
Industrial Relations Law Report
- IRM
- Inspection
repair and maintenance (Offshore)
- IRM
- Institute of
Risk Management
- IRO
- Integrated Regional Offices
- IRP
- Institute of Radiation Protection
- IRP
- Intellectual Property Rights
- IRPA
- International Radiation Protection
Association
- IRPTC
- International Register of
Potentially Toxic Chemicals (UN)
- IRR
- Ionising
Radiations Regulations
- IRRG
- Ionising Radiations
Research Group
- IRRV
- Institute of Revenues Rating
and Valuation
- IR(SS) Regs
- Ionising Radiations
(Sealed Sources) Regulations
- IR(URS) Regs
- Ionising
Radiations (Unsealed Radioactive Substances) Regulations
- IS *
- Information Services
- IS
*
- Information Specialist
- IS
- Intrinsic
safety
- IS
- Intrinsically safe
- ISBN
-
International Standard Book Number(ing)
- ISCA
-
International Standards Steering Committee for Consumer Affairs
- ISEC
- Information Strategy Executive Committee
- ISGOTT
- International Safety Guide for Oil Tankers
and Terminals
- ISI
- In-service inspection
- ISIC
- International standard industrial
classification
- ISO
- International Organization for
Standardization
- ISP
- International Standard Problem
- ISRS
- International Safety Rating System
- ISSA
- International Social Security Association
- ISSG
- Information Strategy Steering Group
- ISTR
- Institute of Safety in Technology and
Research
- ISVR
- Institute of Sound and Vibration
Research (Southampton)
- IT
- Industrial Tribunal
- IT
- Information technology
- ITB
-
Industry Training Board
- ITB
- Insurance Technical
Bureau
- ITSA
- Independent Tank Storage Association
- ITSI
- Information Technology Standards Institute
- IUPAC
- International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry
- IWEM
- Institution of Water and
Environmental Management
- IWM
- Institute of Wastes
Management
- IZ
- Inner zone
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J
- Acronym
- Description
- JAC
- Joint Advisory Committee
- JACR
- Joint Advisory Committee Report
- JDI
- Joint Declaration of Intent
- JDS
- Joint Disciplinary Scheme
- JEA
- Japan Electric Association
- JEC
- Japanese Electrotechnical Committee
- JFRO
- Joint Fire Research Organisation
- JIB
- Joint Industry Board for the Electrical Contracting Industry
- JIC
- Joint Industrial Council
- JIG
- Job Interview Guarantee
- JIS
- Japanese Standard Association
- JISC
- Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
- JISC
- Joint Industry Safety Committee
- JML
- Japanese Ministry of Labour
- JNC
- Joint National Committee (IPMS, FDA, SCS)
- JOCE
- Journal Officiel des Communautes Europeennes
- JRC
- Joint Research Centre (EURATOM)
- JSC
- Joint Standing Committee
- JSCR
-
Joint Standing Committee Report
- JWG
- Joint
Working Group
- JWP
- Joint Working Party
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K
- Acronym
- Description
- KAN
- Kommission Arbeitsschutz und Normung
- KHF
- Know How Fund
- KIT
- Keep in touch
- KTA
- Kerntecnischer Ausschuss
- KWU
- Kraftwerk Union
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L
- Acronym
- Description
- LA
- Local authority
- LAA
-
Laboratory animal allergy
- LAA
- Local Authority
Associations
- LAAPS
- Local Authority Accident
Prevention and Safety Services
- LAC
- Local Authority
Circular
- LACOTS
- Local Authority Committee on
Trading Standards
- LADD
- Lifetime average daily dose
- LASER
- Light amplification by stimulated emission
of radiation
- LASP
- Local Authorities Strategic Programme
- LASS
- Leisure Accident Surveillance
System
- LAU
- Local Authority Unit
- LAUTRO
- Life Assurance and Unit Trust Regulatory
Office
- LBA
- London Boroughs Association
- LBCNC
- Land Based Colleges National Consortium
- LBRO
- Local better regulation office
- LC *
- Licence condition
- LCDP
- Local
career development panels
- LCIE
- Laboratoire Central
des Industries Electriques (France)
- LCLo
- Lethal
concentration low
- LCRG
- Local Career Review Group
- LC5O
- Lethal concentration 50
- LD
- Land Division
- LDA
- Linear photodiode array
- LDG
-
List of dangerous goods
- LDLo
- Lethal dose low
- LD50
- Lethal dose fifty
- LEA
- Local Enterprise Agency
- LEL
-
Lower explosive limit
- LEL
- Lower exposure limit
- LEQ
- Equivalent continuous sound level
- LEQ(8)hr
- Equivalent Continuous Sound Level
(normalised to 8 hours)
- LEV
- Local exhaust
ventilation
- LFDCA
- London Fire and Civil
Defence Authority
- LFL
- Lower flammability limit
- LFS
- Labour Force Survey
- LGA
-
Local Government Association
- LGSC
- Landlord's gas safety certificate
- LGTF
- Local Government
Task Force
- LIF
- Laser induced fluorescence
- LIF
- Lighting Industry Federation
- LIFFE
- London International Financial and Futures
Exchange
- LIMS
- Laboratory Information Management
Systems
- LIS *
- Library and Information Services,
now Information Services
- LITTS
- Large Inventory Top
Tier Site(s)
- LLC *
- Local Liaison Committee
- LLMI
- Local Labour Market Intelligence
- LLP
- Limited Liability Partnerships
- LMFBR
- Liquid metal fast breeder
reactor
- LMS
- Labour Market System (employment data)
- LNG
- Liquefied natural gas
- LOCA
- Loss of coolant accident
- LOCAE
- List of Classified and Authorised Explosives
- LOD
- Limit of Detection
- LOEL
-
Lowest Observed Effect Level
- LOFT
- Loss of Fluid
Test Programme (OECD)
- LOLER
- Lifting Operations and
Lifting Equipment Regulations
- LOPP
- Large Organisations Pilot Project
- LOQ
- Limit of
Quantitation
- LOX
- Liquid oxygen
- LP
- Liquefied petroleum
- LP
- Low
pressure
- LPA
- Local Planning Authority
- LPC
- Loss Prevention Council
- LPG
-
Liquefied petroleum gas
- LPGA
- Liquefied Petroleum
Gas Association
- LPGITA
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas
Industry Technical Association
- LREC
- Local Research Ethics Committee
- LRT
- Light rapid transit
- LRV
- Light
rail vehicle
- LSEV
- Laboratoire des Substances
Explosives de Vemeuil
- LSS
- Load scaling sensitivity
- LTA
- Lost time accident
- LTI
- Lost time incident
- LTSRs
-
Long Term Safety Reviews
- LUL
- London
Underground Limited
- LV
- Low voltage
- LV
- Low volume
- LVD
- Low voltage
directive
- LWC
- Local Whitley Committee
- LWR
- Light water reactor
- LWRA
-
London Waste Regulation Authority
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M
- Acronym
- Description
- M & E
- Mechanical and Electrical
- MAC
- Maximum Acceptable Concentration or Maximum Allowable Concentration
- MACE
- Multipurpose Automatic Control Equipment
- MAFF *
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
- MAFS
- Management Arrangements Feasibility Study (in
FOD)
- MAG
- Metal active gas
- MAG
- Metal arc gas
- MAGNET
- Minority Action Group Network
- MAIB
- Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- MAK
- Maximale Arbeitsplatzkonzentration(en) German
- MAPP
- Major Accident Prevention Policy
- MAR
- Management and Administration
- MARCODE*
- Database of Investigated Accidents (originally Marches Code)
- MAS
- (Civil Service) Medical Advisory Service, now Occupational Health and Safety Agency
Ltd.
- MaTSU
- Marine Technology Support Unit
- MAUK
- Mining Association of the UK
- MAWP
- Maximum Allowable Working Pressure
- MB
- Management Board
- MbO
- Management by Objective(s)
- MbOCA
- 4,4'Methylene-bis-(2-chloroaniline)
- MCA
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- MCB
- Manually controlled barrier (crossings)
- MCCS
- Microclimate cooling system
- MCG
- Major Contractors Group
- MCI
- Management Charter Initiative
- MCS
- Microclimate cooling system
- MCS
- Mining Certification Service (See HSE (M))
- MDHS
- Methods for the Determination of Hazardous Substances
- MDI
- Diphenylmethane diisocyanate
- MDI
- Methyl diphenylene diisocyanate
- MDTSA
- Methods for the Detection of Toxic Substances in Air
- ME
- Myalgic encephalomyelitis
- MECS *
- Mining Equipment Certification Service (part of BASEEFA)
- MEK
- Methyl ethyl ketone
- MEL *
- Maximum Exposure Limit
- MEPC
- Marine Environment Protection Committee
- MESG
- Maximum experimental safe gap
- MeV
- Million electron volts or mega electron volts
- MEWP
- Mobile elevating work platform
- MFCI
- Molten Fuel Coolant Interaction
- MH
- Major hazards
- MHAU *
- Major Hazards Assessment Unit
- MHIDAS
- Major Hazards Incident Data Service. Database available on OSHROM
- MHLWP
- Major Hazards Legislation Working Party
- MHSP
- Major hazards strategic programme
- MHSWR
- Management of
Health and Safety at Work Regulations
- (HM) MI
- Mines Inspectorate
- MI
-
Mandatory Investigation
- MI
- Myocardial infarction
- MIC
- Methyl isocyanate
- MIC
- Minimum
ignition current
- MIC
- Mining Industry Committee
- MIDAS
- Machine information display
and automation system
- MIE
- Minimum ignition energy
- MIG
- Metal inert gas
- MIGE
- Missile
impact and gaseous explosions
- MIIB
- Major incident investigation board
- MINOS
- Mine Operating System
- MIPG
- Major incident progess group
- MIPS
- Median Index of Public Sector Tender Prices
- MIRWMS
- Merseyside Ionising Radiation Warning and
Monitoring System
- MIS
- Management Information
Systems
- MIS
- Manufacturers, importers and suppliers
- MISHAP
- Model for the Estimation of Individual
Societal Risk from the Hazards of Pipelines
- MLH
- Minimum List Heading (of the Standard
Industrial Classification)
- MMMA
- Metalforming
Machinery Makers' Association
- MMMF
- Man-made
mineral fibre
- MMWR
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report (USA)
- MND
-
Motorneuron(e) disease
- MNE
- Multinational
enterprise
- MOCA
- 4,4'
Methylene-bis-(2-chloroaniline)
- MOD
- Ministry of
Defence
- MOD(AD)
- Ministry of Defence (Army Dept)
- MOD(AFD)
- Ministry of Defence (Air Force Dept)
- MOD(N)
- Ministry of Defence (Naval Dept)
- MOD(PE)
- Ministry of Defence (Procurement
Executive)
- MOR
- Mortality Odds Ratio
- MOTO
- Memorandum of Terms of Occupancy
- MoU
- Memorandum of Understanding
- MPC
- Maximum Permissible Concentrations
- MPC
- Monetary Policy Committee
- MPE
-
Maximum Permissible Exposure
- MPO
- Management and
Personnel Office
- MQ *
- Mines
and Quarries
- MQB *
- Mining Qualifications Board
- (HM) MQI *
- (HM) Mines and Quarries Inspectorate
now Mines Inspectorate
- MR
- Mandatory Reporting
- MRA
- Mutual Recognition Agreement
- MRDE
- Mining Research and Development Establishment (now Coal Research Establishment)
- MREC
- Multicentre Research Ethics Committee
- MRL
- Maximum Residue Limit
- MS
- Manuscript
- MS
- Mass spectrometry
- MS
- Member State (of European Union)
- MSC
- Maritime Safety Commission
- MSD
- Musculoskeletal disorder
- MSDS
- Material Safety Data Sheet(s)
- MSER
- Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations
- MSF
- Manufacturing Science Finance Union
- MSHC
- Mines Safety and Health Commission (sometimes used instead of SHCMOEI)
- MSIV
- Main steam isolating valve
- MSLB
- Main steam line break
- MT
- Management Trainee
- MTD
- Marine Technology Directorate
- MTIRA
- Machine Tool Industry Research Association (now AMTRI)
- MU
- Multiple Unit (train)
- MVA
- Market value added
- MVBR
- Motor vehicle body repair
- MVR
- Motor vehicle repair
- MW
- Microwave
- MWF
- Metalworking fluid(s)
- MWL
- Miniature warning light
- MZ
- Middle zone
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N
- Acronym
- Description
- NAAFI
-
Navy, Army, Air Force Institute
- NAC
-
National Agricultural Centre
- NACB
- National
Accreditation of Certification Bodies
- NADOR
-
Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
- NAFE
- Non-advanced further education
- NAFLIC
- National Association for Leisure Industry
Certification
- NAIR
- National Arrangements for
Incidents involving Radioactivity
- NAM
- National Account Managers
- NAO
- National
Audit Office
- NAPP *
- Non-Agricultural Pesticides
Panel
- NAPS
- Nationwide Association of Preserving
Specialists
- NARM
- Naturally occurring and
accelerator produced radioactive material
- NASC
-
National Association of Scaffolding Contractors
- NATLAS
- National Testing Laboratory Accreditation
Scheme
- NATM
- New Austrian Tunnelling Method
- NAWDC
- National Association of Waste Disposal
Contractors
- NCB
- National Coal Board, now
British Coal Corporation
- NCEC
- National Chemical
Emergency Centre
- NCF
- National Contractors
Federation
- NCIS
- National Criminal Intelligence
Service
- NCSIIB
- National Certification Scheme for
Inservice Inspection Bodies
- NCVQ
- National Council
for Vocational Qualifications
- NDLB
- National
Dock Labour Board
- NDPB
- Non Departmental Public
Body
- NDT
- Non-destructive testing
- NE
- Nuclear Electric
- NEA
- Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD)
- NEB
- Nuclear Energy Board of Ireland, Dublin
- NEBOSH
- National Examination Board in Occupational
Safety and Health
- NEBR
- Nuclear Emergency Briefing
Room
- NEBROSH
- National Examination Board in Risk,
Occupational Safety and Health
- NEC
- National
Executive Committee
- NEC
- Net Explosives Content
- NEC
- Network Emergency Co-ordinator
- NEDB
- National Exposure Data Base
- NEMKO
- Norges Elektriske Materiellkontroll (Norway)
- NEPLG
- Nuclear Emergency Planning Liaison Group
- NESC
- Network for Evaluating Steel Components
- NES
- Not Elsewhere Specified
- NFB
- National Federation of Builders
- NFCI
- National Federation of Clay Industries
- NFDC
- National Federation of Demolition Contractors
- NFRC
- National Federation of Roofing Contractors
- NGL
- Natural gas liquid(s)
- NGO
-
Non-Governmental Organisation
- NHBC
- National
House Building Council
- NI
-
Nominated Inspector
- NI
- Northern Ireland
- NIAOA
- National Insurance Agency Against
Occupational Accidents (Italy)
- NICE
- National
Institute for Clinical Excellence
- NIDA
- National
Institute on Drug Abuse (USA)
- NIEHS
- National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- NIG *
-
National Interest Group
- NIGM *
- National Interest
Group Minute
- NIH
- National Institutes of Health
(USA)
- NIHHS
- Notification of Installations Handling
Hazardous Substances Regulations
- NIHL
- Noise
induced hearing loss
- (HM) NII *
- (HM) Nuclear
Installations Inspectorate (operational arm of the Nuclear Safety
Directorate, Health and Safety Executive)
- NIMEXE
-
Harmonised nomenclature for foreign trade statistics of the EEC
- NIOSH
- National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health (USA)
- NIOSHTIC
- National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health database, available on OSHROM
- NIR
- Non-ionising radiation
- NIR
-
Northern Ireland Railway
- NIREX
- Nuclear Industry
Radioactive Waste Executive
- NIST
- National
Institute of Standards and Technology (USA)
- NJUG
- National Joint Utilities Group
- NMR
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- NNC
- National Nuclear Corporation
- NNI
- Nederlands Normalisatie Instituut
(Netherlands)
- NOAEL
- No Observed Adverse Effect
Level
- NOES
- National Occupational Exposure Survey
(U.S.A.)
- NONS
- Notification of New Substances
Regulations
- NPF
- Nominal protection factor
- NPTC
- National Proficiency Tests Council
- NRA
- National Rivers Authority
- NRC
-
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USA)
- NRG *
- National
Responsibility Group now National Interest Group
- NRPB
- National Radiological Protection Board
- NRT
- National Responsibility Team
- NSCC
- National Specialist Contractors
Council
- NSD *
- Nuclear Safety Directorate, Health
and Safety Executive
- NSF
- Norges
Standardiseringsforbund (Norway)
- NSRMU
- Nuclear
Safety Research Management Unit
- NSRSG
- Nuclear
Safety Research Steering Group
- NSSF
- National Standardisation Strategic Framework
- NSSS
- Nuclear steam
supply system
- NTI
- New Training Initiative
- NTIS
- National Technical Information Service (USA)
- NTP
- Normal temperature and pressure
- NTP
- National Toxicology Program (USA)
- NTSB
- National Transportation Safety Board (USA)
- NUI
- Normally Unattended Installation
- NUREG
- US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
publication
- NUSAC
- Nuclear Safety Advisory
Committee
- NVLAP
- National Voluntary Laboratory
Accreditation Program (US)
- NVQ
- National Vocational
Qualification
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O
- Acronym
- Description
- OAC
- Operational analysis and control model
- OB *
-
Operations Branch. OSD
- Obs
- Obsolete/Obsolescent
- OBST
- Operational Business Systems Team
- OC
- Open crossing
- OC *
-
Operational Circular
- OCB
- Offshore Certification
Bureau
- OCD
- Occupational cerviobrachial disorder
- OCMI
- Organisation cultural maturity index
- OCR
- Opportunity Cost Rent
- OCR 1322
Scheme
- Management of health and safety and welfare for
small and medium sized businesses in the construction industry
- OCT
- Overseas Countries and Territories
- OD
- Organisation(al) Development
- ODA
- Olympic Delivery Authority
- OECD-IGUS
- Organisation for Economic Cooperation
and Development - International Group of Experts on the Explosion
Risks of Unstable Substances
- OEL
- Occupational
exposure limit
- OES *
- Occupational exposure
standard
- OfGAS
- Office of Gas Supply
- OFGEM
- Office of Gas and Electricity Markets
- OFTEL
- Office of Telecommunications
- OFWAT
- Office of Water Services
- OG
- Operations Group
- OGC
- Office of Government Commerce
- OGD
- Other Government Departments
- OGU
- Open Government Unit
- OH
-
Occupational health
- OHAC *
- Occupational Health
Advisory Committee
- OHASP
- Occupational Health and
Safety Practitioner
- OHEU *
- Occupational Health and
Environment Unit
- OHP
- Overhead projector
- OHS
- (Civil Service) Occupational Health Service
- OHSLB
- Occupational Health and Safety Lead Body
- OIAC *
- Oil Industry Advisory Committee
- OIE
- Office International des Epizooties
- OILM
- International Organization of Legal Metrology
- OIML
- International Organization of Legal Metrology
- OIM
- Offshore Installations Manager
- OITAF
- International Organization for
Transportation by Rope
- OJ
- Official Journal (of
the European Communities)
- OJEC
- Official Journal of
the European Communities
- OLC
-
Occupation level crossing
- OLC
- Open level crossing
- OLE
- Object linking and embedding
- OM
- Operations Manager
- OM *
- Operational
Minute
- OMCS
- Office of the Minister for the Civil
Service
- OME
- Ontario Ministry of Environment
- OMF *
- Operations Managers Forum
- OMHL
*
- Occupational Medicine and Hygiene Laboratory
- OMT
- Operations management team
- OOPEC
- Office for Official Publications of the
European Communities
- OP
- Occasional Paper
- OP
- Organophosphate/Organophosphorus
- OPA
*
- Output and Performance Analysis
- OPIP
- Operational Process Improvement Project
- OPM
-
Output and Performance Measures
- OPO
- One Person
Operated
- OPSD
- Operational Support and Policy Division
- OPSS
- Office of Public Service and Science
- ORR
- Office of the Rail Regulator
- OSC
- Off-Site Centre
- OSC
- Operational Safety Case
- OSD
*
- Offshore Safety Division
- OSHA
-
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (USA)
- OSHCD
- Occupational Safety and Health Compact Disc
- OSHIG
- Occupational Safety and Health Information
Group
- OSHLB
- Occupational Safety and Health Lead
Body
- OSHRC
- Occupational Safety and Health Review
Commission (USA)
- OSHROM
- Occupational Safety and
Health (Compact Disc) Read Only Memory. Contains NIOSHTIC, CISDOC,
HSELINE, MHIDAS databases
- OSIRIS
- Optical
scattering instantaneous respirable dust indication system
- OSRP Act
- Offices Shops and Railway Premises Act
1963
- OSRPA
- Offices Shops and Railway Premises Act
- OST
- Office of Science and Technology
- OSU PIGI
- Operational Support Unit's Procedures, Instructions, Guidance, Information
- OSZHD
- Organisation for the Collaboration of
Railways (E. Europe)
- OTAR
- Overseas Tariffs and
Regulations
- OTSB
- Offshore Safety and Technology
Board
- OTSU
- Open Tech Support Unit
- OU
- Operations Unit
- OVC
-
Occupational Violent Crime
- OZ
- Outer Zone
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P
- Acronym
- Description
- P & I
-
Piping and Instrumentation (diagram)
- P & T
-
Professional and Technology Category
- Pa
- Pascal
(S.I. unit of pressure)
- PA
- Planning authority
- PA
- Put away (on registered files)
- PABIAC
*
- Paper and Board Industry Advisory Committee
- PACA
- Preventing Accidents to Children in Agriculture
- PAG
*
- Programme Action Group (of Securing Health Together)
- PAH
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
- PAIT
- Post-Acceptance Inspection Topic
- PANs
- Personnel Advice Notes
- PASC
-
Pacific Area Standards Congress
- PAT
- Proficiency
Analytical Testing
- PATRAM
- Packaging and Transport
of Radioactive Materials
- PBB
- Polybrominated
biphenyl
- PBN
- Permanent Background Notices
- PBZ
- Personal breathing zone
- PC
- Personal computer
- P(C)A
-
Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928
- PCA
- Public
Contractors Association
- PCAH
- Polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbon
- PCAW
- Public Concern at Work
- PCB
- Polychlorinated biphenyl
- PCBP's
- Polychlorinated biphenylenes
- PCIAOH
- Permanent Commission and International
Association on Occupational Health
- PCM
- Phase
contrast microscopy
- PCM
- Plutonium contaminated
material
- PCS
- Public and Commercial Services Union
- PCSPS
- Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme
- PCSR
- Pre-construction safety report
- Pct
- Polychlorinated Triphenyls
- PD
- Promotion dossier
- PDO
- Personal Development Objectives
- PDS
- Professional Development Scheme
- PE
- Photo-electric
- PEC
- Packaging
of Explosives for Carriage Regulations
- PEFD *
-
Planning Efficiency and Finance Division
- PEGS
-
Pesticide Exposure Group of Sufferers
- PEL
-
Permissible Exposure Limit (U.S. Dept. of Labour)
- PER
- Professional
and Executive Recruitment
- PERU
- Pay and Employee
Relations Unit
- PES
- Programmable electronic systems
- PES
- Public expenditure survey
- PF
- Personal file
- PF
-
Procurator Fiscal
- PFA
- Pulverised fuel ash
- PFD
- Primary flash distillate
- PFEER
- Prevention of Fire Explosion and Emergency
Response Regulations
- PFP
- Process fire precautions
- PGI
- Protected
geographical indication
- PGR
- Road Transport
(Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Packages etc) Regulations
- PH
- Property holdings
- PH
- Public
Health
- PHELA
- Pesticides HSE/LA Enforcement Liaison
Committee
- PHO
- Public Health Officer
- PHIPCO
- Public Health and Industrial Pesticides
Council
- PHSA
- Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act
1990
- PI *
- Principal
Inspector
- PIA
- Professional Investment Authority
- PIAC *
- Printing Industry Advisory Committee
- PIACT
- International Programme for the Improvement
of Working Conditions and Environment (ILO)
- PIAP
-
Pesticides Incidents Appraisal Panel
- PICOP
- Person
in Charge of Possession (trains)
- PICOW
- Person in
Charge of Works (Railways)
- PID
- Project iInitiation
document
- PIHS
- Preliminary industrial hygiene
survey
- PII
- Professional indemnity insurance
- PILON
- Payments in lieu of notice
- PIN
- Publication Information Notice
- PIO
- Principal Inspecting Officers (of Railways)
- PIPI
- Pipelines Inspectorate
- PIRER
-
Public Information for Radiation Emergencies Regulations
- PISC
- Programme for the Inspection of Steel
Components
- PIZ
- Public Information Zone
- PLACO
- Planning Committee (ISO)
- PLC
- Public Level Crossing
- PLC
-
Programmable logic circuits
- PLC
- Programmable logic
controller
- PLTB
- Programmed learning text book
- PM
- Permanent Manuals
- PMA
-
Paintmakers Association (of Great Britain)
- PMDA
-
Plastics Machinery Distributors' Association
- PMF
- Progressive massive fibrosis
- PMR
- Proportional mortality ratios
- PMS
- Paint mixing system(s)
- PN
- Prohibition notice
- PO
- Private Office
- POCO
- Post
Operational Cleanout (Nuclear)
- POHL
- Principal
Officer Health Liaison
- POMSTER
- Placing on the
Market and Supervision of Transfers of Explosives Regulations
- POOSH
- Professional Organisations in Occupational Health and Safety
- POPMAR
- Policy, organising, planning and implementing, measuring, auditing and reviewing
- POPUMET
- Protection of Persons undergoing Medical
Examinations or Treatment
- PORV
- Power-operated
relief valve
- POSH
- Policies for Strategy on Health
- POSR
- Pre-operation Safety Review
- PoW
- Plan of Work
- PP Regs
- Power Presses Regulations
- PPE
- Personal protective
equipment
- PPEB
- Policy Projects and Environment
Branch, part of Policy Unit
- PPHSLC
- Plastics
Processing Health and Safety Liaison Committee
- ppm
-
Parts per million
- PPM
- Process and production
method
- PPMA
- Petrol Pump Manufacturers Association
- PPTO
- Principal Professional and Technology Officer
- PQ
- Parliamentary Question
- PR & D
- Public Research and Development
- PRA
- Paint Research Association
- PRA
- Probabilistic risk analysis
- PRA
- Probabilistic risk assessment
- PRAM
- Pipeline risk assessment method
- prEN
- project EN
- PRI
- Plastics and
Rubber Institute
- PRINCE
- Projects Via Controlled
Environment
- PRISM
- Personnel Record Information
Systems for Management
- PRS *
- Pesticides
Registration Section
- PRS
- Property Repayment Scheme
- PRU
- Pay Research Unit
- PRV
-
Pressure relief valve
- PS
-
Personal Secretary
- PSA
- Probabilistic safety
analysis
- PSA
- Public Service Agreements
- PSAR
- Preliminary safety analsysis report
- PSB
- Professional Staffs Branch
- PSC
- Port State Control
- PSDU *
-
Personnel Services Delivery Unit
- PSGB
-
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Psaf
-
Particle size distribution function
- psi
- Pounds per
square inch
- PSI
-
Principal Specialist Inspector
- PSO
- Principal Scientific Officer
- PSO
- Professional Standards Office
- PSR
- Pipelines Safety Regulations
- PSPS
- Pesticides Safety Precautions Scheme
- PSSR
- Pressure Systems Safety Regulations
- PST
- Professional, Scientific and Technical
- PSV
- Planned Special Visit
- PTB
- Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt
- PTF
- Petroleum Training Federation
- PTFE
- Polytetrafluoroethylene
- PTO
-
Professional and Technology Officer
- PTOM
- Pays et
territoires d'outre-mer
- PTW
- Permit to work
- PU *
- Planning Unit, part of Resources and Planning
Directorate
- PU
- Policy Unit
- PU
-
Polyurethane
- PU
- Public utility
- PUF
- Polyurethane foam
- PURPOSES
-
Purchase Management System
- PUSU *
- Policy Unit
Support unit
- PUWER
- Provision and Use of Work
Equipment Regulations
- PVC
- Polyvinyl chloride
- PWP
- Personal Work Plan
- PWR
-
Pressurised water reactor
- PWTAG
- Pool Water
Treatment Advisory Group
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Q
- Acronym
- Description
- QA
-
Quality assurance
- QAC
- Quality Assurance Committee
- QBD
- Queen's Bench Division
- QC
- Quality control
- QMS
-
Quality management systems
- QNFT
- Quantitative
fit testing
- QNIG
- Quarries National Interest Group
- QPB
- Quarterly Programme Board
- QRA
- Quantified risk assessment
- QRG
- Quarterly Return Group
- QSEs
- Qualified scientists and engineers
- qv
- quod vide (which see)
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R
- Acronym
- Description
- R
- Risk
phrases (i.e. R40, R42) as defined by the Approved List of the CHIP
Regulations
- R2P2
- Reducing Risks Protecting People
- R & D
- Research and Development
- RAB
- Resource Accounting and Budgeting
- RAC
- Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (USA)
- RALG
- Risk Assessment Liaison Group
- RALUCO
- Radioactive luminous compound
- RAMG
- Regulatory Assistance Management Group
- RAMRail
- The Packaging, Labelling and Carriage of
Radioactive Material by Rail Regulations 1996
- RAMRoad
- The Radioactive Material (Road Transport)
(Great Britain) Regulations 1996
- RAPU *
- Risk
Assessment Policy Unit
- RAS
- Recruitment and
Assessment Services (Civil Service)
- RAS
- Remote access service
- RASH
- Rapid
screening of hazard
- RASP *
- Replacement Accounting
System Project (New Accounting Computer System)
- RATs
- Remote access terminals
- RAWS
-
Regional Administrative Works Study
- RCD
-
Residual current device
- RCEP
- Royal Commission on
Environmental Pollution
- RCH
- Railway Clearing House
- RCO
- Regulatory compliance officer
- RCP
- Reactor coolant pump
- RCS
-
Reactor coolant system
- RCS
- Royal Society of
Chemistry
- RD
- Regional
Director
- RDMA
- Regulatory decision making audit
- RDP
- Registered disabled person
- REACH
- Registration Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals
- REAT
- Real ear attenuation at threshold
- REC
- Research Ethics Committee
- REGS
- Regulations
- REHIS
- Royal
Environmental Health Institute of Scotland
- REL
-
Recommended exposure limit
- REM
- Roentgen
Equivalent-Man
- REM
- Rapid eye movement
- REMA
- Regional Employment Medical Adviser
- REMCO
- Committee on Reference Materials (ISO)
- REPAC
- Regional Protection Advisory Committee
- REPPIR
- Radiation (Emergency) Preparedness and
Public Information) Regulations
- RESHORB
- Racial
Equality, Health and Safety and Overseas Recruitment Branch (in ED)
now Health and Safety Policy Liaison
- RF
- Radio
frequency
- RFAC
- Regional Fisheries Advisory
Committee
- RFD
- Rail freight distribution
- RFDC
- Regional Flood Defence Committee
- RFMS
- Radio frequency magnetron sputtering
- RHRS
- Residual heat removal
system
- RHS *
- Revitalising Health and Safety
- RI *
- Railway Inspectorate
- RIA
- Regulatory Impact Assessment
- RIAC
*
- Railway Industry Advisory Committee
- RIAS
- Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
- RIBA
- Royal Institute of British Architects
- RICE
- Regular interlaboratory counting exchange
- RICS
- Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
- RID
- Reglements Internationales Relatif au
Transport des Marchandises Dangereuses par Chemin de Fer
- RIDDOR
- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and
Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
- RIIS
- Research
Institute of Industrial Safety (Japan)
- RIMNET
-
Radioactive Incident Monitoring Network
- RIP
-
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
- RIPA
- Royal
Institute of Public Administration
- RIS
- Resource
Information System
- RISKAT
- Risk Assessment Tool
- RLO
- Research Liaison Officer
- RLSD *
- Research and Laboratory Services Division [see HSL]
- RMTD
- Radioactive Materials Transport Division of the Department of Transport
- RNA
- Ribonucleic acid
- RNE
- Reseau
National D'Essais. (France)
- RNES
- Royal Naval
Engineering Service
- RNIP
- Regulatory Nuclear Interface Protocol
- RNSS
- Royal Naval Scientific
Service
- RO
- Regional Office
- ROAMEF
- Rationale, Objectives, Appraisal,
Monitoring, Evaluation and Feedback
- ROGWU
- Russian
Oil, Gas and Construction Workers Union
- ROIT
-
Regional Office of Industrial Tribunals
- ROPS
-
Roll-over protection system
- RoR
- Review of
Regulation
- RoRo
- Roll-on Roll-off vehicle ferry
- RoSPA
- Royal Society for the Prevention of
Accidents
- ROSV
- Remote operated solenoid valve
- RPA
- Radiation Protection Adviser
- RPD *
- Resources and Planning Directorate
- RPD (FAS) *
- Resources and Planning Division
(Financial and Accounting Section)
- RPE
- Respiratory
protective equipment
- RPS
- Reactor protection system
- RPS *
- Research Planning Section (of HSL)
- RPSGB
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great
Britain
- RPV
- Reactor pressure vessel
- RSA60
- Radioactive Substances Act 1960
- RSC
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- RSH
- Royal Society for the Promotion of Health
- RSI
- Repetitive strain injury
- RSLs
-
Registered Social Landlords
- RSM *
- Regional
Support Manager
- RSPA
- Research and Special Programs
Administration (USA)
- RSP
- Relevant statutory
provision
- RSP
- Registered safety practitioner
- RSSG
- Royal Society Study Group
- RSU
*
- Research Strategy Unit
- RTA
- Road
traffic accident
- RTD
- Research Technology and
Development Projects
- RTR
- Road Traffic (Carriage of
Dangerous Substances in Road Tankers and Tank Containers)
Regulations
- RUBIAC *
- Rubber Industry Advisory
Committee
- RUBSSO
- Rossendale Union of Boot, Shoe
and Slipper Operatives
- RWA
- Regional Water
Authority
- RWMAC
- Radioactive Waste Management
Advisory Committee
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S
- Acronym
- Description
- S
- Section
- S & C
- Switches and crossings
- S &
T
- Signal and telecommunications
- S and LP
-
Safety and loss prevention
- SABE
- Strategic
Advisory Body on Environment
- SAC
- Subject Advisory
Committee
- SACA
- Systemic accident cause analysis
- SAI
- Safety appliance illustration
- SAM
- Senior Admin Manager
- SAP
- Safety assessment principles
- SAP
- Safety assurance principles
- SAP
- Social Action Programme
- SARA
-
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (U.S.A.)
- SASD
- Strategy and Analytical Support Directorate
- SBS
- Sick building syndrome
- SBTAF
- Small Business Trade Association Forum
- SC
- Safety case
- SC
- Skillcentre
- SCANS *
- Selective
Current Awareness Newsheets produced by HSE Information Services on
a variety of topics
- SCASUG
- Safety Case Assessment System Users Group
- SCBA
- Self contained breathing
apparatus
- SCC
- Safety Case Co-ordinator
- SCC *
- Situations Co-ordination Centre
- SCC
- Standards Council of Canada
- SCDO
- Safety Case Distribution Officer
- SCE
- Safety critical element
- SCE
- Sister chromatid exchanges
- SCHAM
- Safety Case Handling and Assessment Manual
- SCHELA
- Standards of Compliance sub-committee of
HELA
- SChIF *
- Senior Chemical Inspector of
Factories
- SCISAS
- Size classifying isokinetic
sequential aerosol sampler
- SCLE
- Scottish
Construction Licensing Executive
- SCMST
- Safety Case Management Support Team
- SCOPE
- Scientific
Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU)
- SCOS
- Scottish Chamber of Safety
- SCOSS
- Standing Committee on Structural Safety
- SCR
- Safety Case Regulations
- SCS
- Safety Case (IT) Systems
- SCS
- Society of Civil Servants
- SCSR
- Self-contained self-rescuer (Mining)
- SCU
- Survey Control Unit (of the Central
Statistical Office)
- SDA
-
Service Delivery Agreement
- SDD
- Scottish
Development Department
- SDI *
- Selective
dissemination of information
- SDIA
- Soap and
Detergent Industries Association
- SDR
- Special
Drawing Rights
- SEC
- Securities and Exchange
Commission
- SECG
- Specialist Engineering Contractors
Group
- SEI
- Safety Environment Institute (U.S.A.)
- SEL *
- Safety Engineering Laboratory, now part of
HSL
- SELECT
- Electrical Contractors Association of
Scotland
- SELV
- Safety extra low voltage
- SEM
- Scanning electron microscopy
- SEMA
*
- Senior Employment Medical Adviser
- SEMKO
-
Svenska Electriska Materielkontrollanstalten (Sweden)
- SENA
*
- Senior Employment Nursing Adviser
- SEO
-
Senior Executive Officer
- SEO
- Special Exemption
Order
- SEPA
- Scottish Environmental Protection
Agency
- SEPD
- Scottish Economic Planning Department
- SERDS
- Single ended ranging drum shearer
- SES *
- Safety and Enforcement Statistics
- SET
- Science Engineering and Technology
- SEV
- Schweizerischen Elektrotechnischen Vereins
(Switzerland)
- SF
- Subject
File
- SFA
- Securities and Futures Authority
- SFAIRP
- So far as is reasonably practicable
- SFS
- Finnish Standards Association
- SFS
- Suomen Standardsoimisliitto (Finland)
- SG
-
Specialist Group
- SGD *
- Strategy and General Division now Policy
Unit
- SGGB
- Showmen's Guild of Great Britain
- SGHWR
- Steam generating heavy water reactor
- SGMSEC
- Scientific Group on methodologies for the
safety evaluation of chemicals (WHO/ICSU)
- SH2
*
- Securing Health Together
- SHAD
- Safety
Health and Awareness Day
- SHCMOEI
- Safety and Health
Commission for the Mining and Other Extractive Industries
- SHEG
- Scottish Health Education Group
- SHELA
- Statistics sub-committee of HELA
- SHIELD *
- Safety and Health Information -
Establishment Linked Data
- SI
*
- Specialist inspector
- SI
- Statutory
Instrument
- SI
- Systeme Internationale
- SIB
- Safety Information Bulletin (DH)
- SIB
- Securities and Investment Board (succeeded by
FSA)
- SIC
- Standard Industrial Classification
- SIC
- Statement of Internal Control
- SID
- Specialised Industries Division
- SIESO
- Society of Industrial Emergency Services
Officers
- SIL
- Safety integrity level
- SIMVIDOSE
- Simultaneous Video Dose
- SIN
- Substance Identification Number
- SIP
- Site Inspection Programme
- SIPI
- Scottish Industrial Pollution Inspectorate
(see also HMIPIS)
- SIR *
- Specialist Inspection
Report
- SIRP
- Society of Independent Roundabout
Proprietors
- SIS
- Standarisering Kommissionen i
Sverige (Sweden)
- SIT
- Spontaneous ignition
temperature
- SITC
- Standard International Trade
Classification
- SITC(R)
- Standard international
trade classification (revised)
- SIT(R2)
- Standard
international trade classification (2nd revision)
- SITTS
- Small Inventory Top Tier Site(s)
- SIU
*
- Strategy and Information Unit
- SLA
- Service level agreement
- SLIC
- Senior Labour Inspectors Committee
- SLIM
- Simpler Legislation for
Internal Markets
- SLM
-
Short Life Memorandum
- SLOD
- Significant likelihood of death
- SLOT
- Specified level of toxicity
- SM *
- Sector Manager
- SMART
- Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timebound
- SMDP
- Senior Management Development Programme
- SME
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- SMIL
- Statistics and market intelligence library
(DTI)
- SMP *
- Safety Management Prospectus
- SMR *
- Senior Management Review
- SMR
- Standardised morbidity ratio
- SMR
- Standardised mortality ratio
- SMR
- Stress MSD and Return 2 Work
- SMRAB
*
- Safety in Mines Research Advisory Board
- SMRE
*
- Safety in Mines Research Establishment
- SMS
- Safety Management System
- SMSR
- Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations
- SMSU *
- Senior Management Support Unit
- SNHL
- Sensory neural hearing loss
- SNUPPS
- Standardised nuclear unit power plant
system
- SNV
- Association Suisse de Normalisation
(Switzerland)
- SO
- Scientific
Officer
- SO *
- Solicitor's Office
- SOC
- Standing Orders Committee
- SOEC
- Statistical Office of the European
Communities
- SOER
- Scottish Office Emergency Room
- SOFA
- Statement of Financial Activities (needed by
Charities)
- SOFHT
- Society of Food Hygiene
Technology
- SOL *
- Solicitor's Office
- SOLAS
- Safety of Life at Sea
- SOPs
-
Standard Operating Procedures
- SORP
- Statement of
Recommended Practice
- SOUP
- Software of uncertain
pedigree
- SPAD *
- Signal passed at danger
- SPAID
- Society for the Prevention of Asbestosis and
Industrial Diseases
- SPATS
- Senior Professional
Administrative Training Scheme
- SPC
- Semi-Permanent
Circulars
- SPD *
- Safety Policy Directorate
- SPF
- Science Policy Foundation
- SPGU
*
- Strategy Policy and Guidance Unit
- SQL
- Structured query language
- SRA
- Strategic Rail Authority
- SRD
- Safety and Reliability Directorate (AEA
Technology)
- SRO
- Statutory Regulation Order
- SRSC
- Safety Representatives and Safety Committees
- SRI
- Safety Related Instrumentation
- SRP
- Society for Radiological Protection
- ss.
- Sections
- SS
- Staff Side
- SSAP
- Statement of Standard Accounting Practice
- SSB *
- Statistical Services Branch now Operations
Unit
- SSC
- Scientific sub-committee (of ACP)
- SSE
- Safe Shutdown Earthquake
- SSERC
- Scottish Schools Science Equipment Research
Centre
- SSG
- Scientific Staffs Group
- SSI
- Solid state interlocking
- SSI
*
- Superintending Specialist Inspector
- SSMSU
- Strategy and Senior Management Services Unit
- SSO
- Senior Scientific Officer
- STA
- Skills Training Agency (Employment
Department)
- STABEX
- Export earnings stabilisation
scheme
- STACO
- Standing Committee for the Study of
Principles of Standardization (ISO)
- STAJ
- Science
and Technology Agency (Japan)
- STATAS
- Structured
Audit Techniques for Assessment of Safety Management
- STC
- Scientific and Technical Committee (EC)
- STEL
- Short term exposure limit
- STEP
- Science and Technology for Employment
Protection
- StEP
- Strategic enabling programmes
- STP
- Scientific and Technological
Programme (EC)
- STRC
- Scientific and Technical
Research Committee (EC)
- STS
- Soft tissue sarcoma
- SVHC
- Substances of very high concern
- SWEF
- Swedish Work Environment Fund (Sweden)
- SWIFT
- Structured What-If Technique
- SWL
- Safe working load
- SWO
- Staff
Welfare Officer
- SWORD
- Surveillance of Work Related
and Occupational Respiratory Disease
- SWP
- Safe
working pressure
- SYSPU
- Systems Planning and
Strategy Unit, part of Railway Inspectorate
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T
- Acronym
- Description
- t
-
tonne(s)
- T
- Toxic
- TA
- Training
Agency
- TA
- Technical Adviser
- TA
- Topic Assessor
- TACADE
- Teachers Advisory Committee on Alcohol and
Drug Education
- TAG
- Technical Advisory Group
- TAM
- Topic Assessment Manager
- TAR
- Topic Assessment Record
- TBT Agreement
- Agreement on Technical Barriers to
Trade
- TC
- Tar Creosote
- TC
- Track Circuit
- TCDD
-
Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin
- TCLo
- Toxic Concentration
Low
- TCPA
- Town and Country Planning Act 1971
- TCPSA
- Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act
1972
- TCSU
- Technical Computing Services Unit
- TDGSA
- Transport of Dangerous Goods (Safety
Advisers) Regulations
- TDI
- Toluene diisocyanate
- TDLo
- Toxic dose low
- TDN
- Technical
Data Note now replaced by HSE Guidance Notes
- TDU
- Toxic dose unit
- TEAM
*
- Technically evaluated advisory materials
- TEAP
- Transportation Emergency Assistance Plan
(Canada)
- TEC
- Training and Enterprise Council
(Training Agency)
- TELARC
- Testing Laboratory
Registration Council of New Zealand
- TEM
-
Transmission electron microscopy
- TEXIAC *
- Textiles
Industry Advisory Committee
- TFPI
- Tripartite
Forum on Health and Safety in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- TGA
- Thermogravimetric analysis
- TGIC
- Triglycidyl Isocyanurate
- THELA
- Training sub-committee of HELA
- TGWU
- Transport and General Workers Union
- THORP
- Thermal oxide reprocessing plant
- THSD *
- Technology and Health Services Division,
now Directorate of Science and Technology
- TIG
-
Tungsten Inert Gas
- TIL *
- Technical Information
Leaflet
- TIR
- Transport International Routier
- TLI *
- Training Liaison Inspector
- TLO
*
- Training Liaison Officer
- TLV
- Threshold
limit value
- TM
- Testing memorandum
- TM
*
- Training Manager
- TM *
- Typing Manager
- TMA
- Trimellitic Anhydride
- TML
-
Trans Manche Link
- TMSG *
- Technical, Medical and
Science Group
- TNO
- Organisatie voor
Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- TNPG
-
The Nuclear Power Group
- TOC
-
Train Operating Company
- TOFD
-
Time-of-Flight-Diffraction (ultrasonic inspection)
- TOPS
- Total Operations Processing System - British
Rail
- TOR
- Tolerability of Risk
- TORCH
- Transferring Ownership Responsibility and
Commitment for Hazard Control
- TP
- Temporary
Promotion
- TPC
- Technical Progress Committee (EC)
- TPED
- Transportable Pressure Equipment Directive
- TPR
- Transportable Pressure Receptacles
- TQ
- Total Quality
- TRC
-
Technology Reports Centre
- TRC
- Textile Research
Council
- TRC
- The Radiochemical Centre Ltd.
- TRNS *
- Technical rules, new series (issued by
EECS)
- TSB
- Technical Staffs
Branch
- TSCA
- Toxic Substances Control Act (USA)
- TSI
- Technical Specifications for Interoperability
- TSWG
- Track Safety Working Group
- TTO
- Telecommunications Technical Officers
- TU *
- Technology Unit. OSD
- TU
- Trade Union
- TUC
- Trades Union Congress
- THORP
- Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant
- TUS
- Trade Union Side
- TUTB
- European Trade Union Technical Bureau for
Health and Safety (Belgium)
- TVI
- Tutored Video
Instruction
- TW
- Thames Water
- TWA
- Time-Weighted Average
- TWI
-
Training Within Industry
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U
- Acronym
- Description
- UA
- Unit
of Account
- UBA
- Umweltbundesamt (Germany)
- UCATT
- Union of Construction Allied Trade
Technicians
- UCO
- Use Classes Order
- UCSIP
- Union des Chambres de l'Industrie du
Petrole
- UDC
- Universal Decimal Classification
- UDRP
- Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
- UDS
- Unscheduled DNA synthesis
- UEL
- Upper explosive limit
- UEL
- Upper exposure limit
- UFL
-
Upper flammability limit
- UHS
- Ultimate heat
sink
- UILI
- Union of International Independent
Laboratories
- UKAEA
- United Kingdom Atomic
Energy Authority
- UKAS
- United Kingdom Accreditation
Service
- UKCS
- United Kingdom Continental Shelf
- UKHIS
- United Kingdom Hazard Information System
- UKIBEC
- United Kingdom Insurance Brokers'
European Committee
- UKMIS
- United Kingdom Permanent
Representative to the United Nations
- UKOOA
- United
Kingdom Offshore Operators Association
- UKPIA
-
United Kingdom Petroleum Industry Association
- UKREP
- United Kingdom Permanent Representative to
the EC
- UL
- Underwriters Laboratories (USA)
- ULV
- Ultra Low Volume
- UNCETDG
- United Nationals Committee of Experts on
the Transport of Dangerous Goods
- UNCLOS
- United
Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea
- UNCSTD
-
United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development
- UNECE
- United Nations Economic Commission for
Europe
- UNEP
- United Nations Environment Programme
- UNI
- Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione
(Italy)
- UNICE
- Union des Industries de la
Communaute Europeenne
- UNIDO
- United Nations
Industrial Development Organisation
- UNIG
- Utilities
National Interest Group
- UNM
- Union de Normalisation
de la Mecanique (France)
- UNSCEAR
- United Nations
Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
- URENCO
- Dutch/German/UK organisation for uranium
enrichment
- USA
- Universities Safety Association
- USAS
- United States of America Standards Institute
- USNRC
- United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- UTE
- Union Technique de l'Electricite
(France)
- UV
- Ultra Violet
- UVCE
-
Unconfined vapour cloud explosion
- UVV
-
Unfallverhutungsvorschrift (Germany)
- UWC
- User
Worked Crossing
- UWED
- Use of Work Equipment
Directive (EC)
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V
- Acronym
- Description
- V/A
- Visual Aid
- VCE
- Vapour Cloud Explosion
- VCM
- Vinyl Chloride Monomer
- VCW
- Voluntary Cessation of Work
- VDT
- Visual Display Terminal
- VDU
-
Visual Display Unit
- VFM
- Value for Money
- VHF
- Viral haemorrhagic Fever
- VLCC
- Very Large Crude Carrier
- VMD
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate
- VNMS
- Variable wall mining system
- VOC
- Volatile Organic Compounds
- VPC
- Veterinary Products Committee
- VPN
- Virtual private network
- VSC
- Voluntary Safety Cases
- VWF
- Vibration white finger
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W
- Acronym
- Description
- WA
- Water Authority
- WAG
- Welsh Assembly Government
- WASP *
- Workplace Analysis Scheme for
Proficiency
- WATCH *
- Working Group for the
Assessment of Toxic Chemicals (ACTS)
- WB
- Wet
bulb
- WBGT
- Wet bulb globe temperature
- WBV
- Whole body vibration
- WCDP
-
Widows', Children's and Dependents' Pension
- WCL
- World Confederation of Labour (Christian
Democrat)
- WCM
- Weekly Circular Minute
- WCO
- Workplace Contact Officer
- WE
- Work Experience
- WEC
- Work of Engineering Construction
- WEG
- Working Exposure Guidelines
- WG
- Working group
- WGIR
- Working
Group on Ionising Radiations
- WHMIS
- Workplace
Hazardous Materials Information System
- WHO
- World
Health Organization
- WIAS
- West Indies
Associated States
- WING
- Work Injured Nurses Group
- WINTECH
- Welsh Innovation and Technology
- WIPO
- World Intellectual Property Organisation
- WISH
- Waste Industry Safety and Health (Forum)
- WLM
- Working Levels per Month
- WMIA
- Woodworking Machinery Importers'
Association
- WML
- Wireless markup language
- WO
- Welsh Office
- WP
- Word Process(-ing/-or)
- WP
-
Working Party
- WP.6
- UN/ECE Working Party on
Harmonization and Standardization Policies
- WP.29
-
UN/ECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations
- WPA
- White Paper Account
- WRA
-
Waste Regulation Authority
- WRRS
- Work-Related Road Safety
- WRULD
- Work related
upper limb disorders
- WSA
- Workers' Safety Adviser
- WSC *
- Warhead Safety
Committee
- WSF
- Wrong Side Failure (Railways)
- WSL
- Warren Spring Laboratory
- WSO
-
World Safety Organisation (USA)
- WTO
- World
Trade Organization
- w/w
- Weight for weight
- WWM Regs
- The Woodworking Machines Regulations
- WWREA
- Wire and Wire Rope Employers Association
- WWT
- Working Well Together
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X
- Acronym
- Description
- XBRL
-
Extensible Business Reporting Language
- XI
-
Irritant
- XML
- Extensible markup language
- Xn
- Harmful
- XPS
- X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy
- XRD
- X-ray
diffraction
- XRF
- X-ray fluorescence
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Y
- Acronym
- Description
- YP
- Young
Person
- YTS
- Youth Training Scheme
