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Publications

Construction and demolition

CIS45 Establishing exclusion zones when using explosives in demolition

Fireworks

HSG124 Giving your own firework display: How to run and fire it safely

HSG123 Working together on firework displays. A guide to safety for firework display organisers and operators

Entertainment

ETIS16 Special or visual effects involving explosions or pyrotechnics used in film and television productions

Explosion

Selection and use of explosion effects and consequence models for explosives

Simplified calculations of blast-induced injuries and damage Specialist inspector report

Explosive atmospheres

L138 Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres. Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002. Approved Code of Practice and guidance

Memorandum for the guidance of applicants for a licence to handle explosives at a harbour or other place

Manufacturing and storage

Guide for those applying to the health and safety executive for a licence to manufacture or store explosives

L66 A guide to the Placing in the Market and Supervision of Transfers of Explosives Regulations 1993 (POMSTER). Placing on the Market and Supervision of Transfers of Explosives Regulations 1993. Guidance on Regulations

L139 Manufacture and storage of explosives. Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005. Approved Code of Practice and guidance

SPC/PERM/27 Registration and licensing by HSE under the Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 (MSER)

Safe handling requirements for explosive and pyrotechnic manufacturing

HSG135 Storage and handling of industrial nitrocellulose

CS3 Storage and use of sodium chlorate and other similar strong oxidants

INDG230 Storing and handling ammonium nitrate

Mines and quarries

L45 Explosives at coal and other safety-lamp mines. Coal and other Safety-lamp Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1993. Approved Code of Practice

L118 Health and safety at quarries. Quarries Regulations 1999. Approved Code of Practice

Motor vehicle repair

INDG280 Airbags and seatbelt pretensioners at garages and motor vehicle repair workshops

Ports and harbours

HSR27 A guide to the Dangerous Substances in Harbour Areas Regulations 1987

DIS3 Explosives aspects of port emergency plans

Recycling

INDG335 Is it explosive? Dangers of explosives in metal recycling

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Updated 2011-10-20