Acronyms and Abbreviations used in HSE - 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
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
SWEF: Swedish Work Environment Fund (Sweden)
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