Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Publications
Health and Safety Executive
HSE Books, 2009 (INDG209(rev1))
Published 04.2009
This leaflet contains general health and safety information for people who are responsible for operating ultraviolet (UV) tanning facilities. Specific advice for customers based on current expert medical opinion is provided on the accompanying poster UV tanning equipment.
Health and Safety Executive
HSE Books, 2009 (HSG144)
Published 04.2009
ISBN: 9780717662913
£9.95
This book provides advice and guidance on how to prevent vehicle accidents on construction sites. It provides information on planning and managing vehicle operations, selecting and maintaining vehicles and safe driving and working practices.
Nobel Denton BOMEL Limited and Health and Safety Laboratory and Health and Safety Executive
(RR701)
Published 04.2009
This report describes an update to a previous study on the nature of the UK waste industry and its health and safety standards.
Employment figures were updated and it is estimated that around 176,000 people are employed in waste and recycling services in the UK in 2005/06. This employment figure was combined with updated accident numbers to reveal that the overall accident rate for workers in the waste industry has been decreasing recently.
High risk areas appeared to have remained relatively constant over the ten-year period. Industries providing general public services and sewage/refuse disposal remained significant. Handling sprains, trips and struckby accidents were the most prolific types of accident. Occupations most likely to be involved in accidents were those related to refuse handling and driver jobs and individuals were likely to have been collecting or handling refuse when they had the accident.
Recommendations include understanding the impact of recycling, and the different profiles of over 3-day and major injury accidents, on the accident rates.
Scarlett Research Ltd and Health and Safety Laboratory and Health and Safety Executive
(RR697)
Published 04.2009
A study was conducted to quantify the service and parking brake performance of a small but representative range of agricultural trailers and trailed appliances in front-line service on UK farms to highlight possible inadequacies in trailer braking system specification and maintenance levels, particularly when used with faster (above 20 mph) tractors.
Braking performance was determined both in ‘As-Found’ off-farm condition and following maintenance. In ‘As-Found’ condition, 90% of test vehicles failed to meet UK statutory service brake performance requirements for vehicles travelling no faster than 20 mph, and 40% of parking brakes were inoperative. Following maintenance, 40% achieved/exceeded the statutory requirement and a further 20% approached the required performance level. Nonetheless, 40% of these modern and supposedly serviceable vehicles still failed to demonstrate adequate performance.
N Stacey and K Simpson of the Health and Safety Laboratory, Liverpool University and Health and Safety Executive
(RR702)
Published 04.2009
This report describes a joint project conducted by HSL and the University of Liverpool Engineering Department to integrate risk concepts into their undergraduate engineering course. The project defined risk education learning outcomes that can be integrated into an undergraduate engineering curriculum and implementing them by merging new teaching materials (involving real accident case studies) into core engineering modules. The success of the project has been evaluated in terms of student’s understanding of risk, at different points during their course, and interactions of the project team with academic staff. A student questionnaire of approximately 50 multiple-choice questions to ascertain student’s understanding of risk was developed to support both development of materials and their evaluation. The report makes a number of recommendations for future collaboration between HSE and a range of stakeholders and relates these to HSE’s ‘Be part of the solution’ strategy (2009), the ongoing sensible risk campaign and the EU campaign (2008-2009) to promote and demystify the risk assessment process. Issues raised, which other educational institutions seeking to undertake a similar process should consider, are:
Promotion of the risk theme to other members of staff who do not view it as a priority and gaining their support to allow inclusion of new materials in their modules;
Overcoming competing demands for time on the curriculum;
Motivating students to engage with the materials from the perspective of relevance, interest and marks; and remaining focused on the key objectives.
J L Saw, M Wardman, J Wilday, A McGillivray, H Balmforth, H McManus of the Health and Safety Laboratory and Health and Safety Executive
(RR703)
Published 04.2009
The Societal Risk Technical Advisory Group is made up of a small number of academic, industry and government specialists who have been asked to advise HSE and departments on matters identified by respondents to the consultation exercise CD212 (Proposals for revised policies to address societal risk around onshore non-nuclear major hazard installations’) on the estimation of societal risk from on-shore, non-nuclear, major hazard installations. This report captures some of the technical matters relating to societal risk methodology and presents the technical issues which need to be resolved prior to the development and implementation of any system for explicit attention to societal risk in the application of the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations (COMAH) and land-use planning (LUP).
