Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Publications
Health and Safety Executive
HSE Books, 2008.
(HSG210)
ISBN: 9780717662630
£12.95
Published 02.2008
This guide provides practical advice on what action to take for non-licensed tasks.
Health and Safety Executive
HSE Books, 2008.
ISBN: 9780717662852
£16.20
Published 02.2008
This publication provides advice about and how to understand the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER). It explains how the regulations deal with work equipment and machinery used in factories, offices, shops, hospitals, construction sites, farms – wherever equipment and machinery is used.
Health and Safety Executive
HSE Books, 2008. (AIS12(REV1))
Published 02.2008
This agriculture information sheet provides guidance to growers on how to reduce the risk to people being injured as a result of falling through glasshouse roofs.
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J Gummer and S Hawksworth of Health and Safety Laboratory and Health and Safety Executive
(RR615)
Published 07.03.2008
This report is part of a project funded by HSE to investigate the phenomena of spontaneous ignition of accidental hydrogen releases. Over the years there have been reports of hydrogen leaks igniting for no apparent reason, and a number of potential ignition mechanisms have been proposed. Investigations of these ignitions have often been superficial, with a mechanism postulated which, whilst appearing to satisfy the conditions prevailing at the time of the release, in general does not stand up to rigorous scientific analysis. Some of these proposed mechanisms have been simulated in the laboratory under superficially identical conditions and appear to be rigorous and scientific, but the simulated conditions often do not have the same large release rates or quantities, mainly because of physical constraints of a laboratory. With the advent wide spread use of high pressure hydrogen storage for vehicles and other applications, there is a clear need to try to understand the probability of this phenomena to occur and also the physical causes of these ignitions so that design guidance can be developed. The report reviews available literature that may be of use in the experimental phase of the above project. It includes a summary of the literature previously identified on this phenomena and identifies new literature/information that could have a bearing on this project.
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London University and Health and Safety Executive
(RR610)
Published 15.02.2008
Traditional approaches to understanding psychosocial job characteristics and well-being have been quite general in that they explore links between general job characteristics such as workload and control on workers in many different sorts of occupations. One example of a more specific approach can be found in research into emotional labour - the requirement to regulate both feelings and the expression of feelings for organizational goals. Early research into emotional labour focused on customer service workers (CSW) but has more recently also considered human service workers (HSW) such as nurses and social workers. A more specific approach to thinking about the outcomes of demanding psychosocial job characteristics can be found in research on burnout which is thought to have three elements: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization (also labelled cynicism), and (low) accomplishment (also called professional efficacy). Much recent research has started to explore the links between emotional demands and burnout. The main aim of this project is therefore to explore the nature of such links through undertaking three distinct tasks. The first is a literature review of evidence and theory while the second two tasks comprise two empirical studies examining several key issues in burnout research.
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British Geological Survey and Health and Safety Executive
(RR605)
Published 13.02.2008
This report was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive to help assess the safety issues associated with the underground storage of natural gas. This has arisen because of the need to consider a number of applications submitted by various operators in the UK who wish to develop such facilities. The rising numbers of applications are as a result of UKCS oil and gas reserves showing rapid decline, to the extent that the UK became a net importer of gas during 2004. The Government recognises that the UK faces an increasing dependency on imports, yet has very little gas storage capacity and is, therefore, at a very real risk of supply shortfalls. It notes that the UK’s capacity to import, transport and store gas and LNG efficiently has to be improved and this will require greater investment in new, timely and appropriately sited gas (and LNG) supply infrastructure, part of which is likely to include (safe) onshore underground (natural) gas storage (UGS) facilities.
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Quintessa Limited and Health and Safety Executive
(RR606)
Published 13.02.2008
The British Geological Survey (BGS) undertook a project for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), to examine the potential for leakage of stored natural gas from underground salt caverns and depleted oil/gas reservoirs. Quintessa was sub-contracted by BGS to support this project by developing leakage scenarios and carrying out simple scoping calculations to evaluate the likely significance of leakage. The BGS component of the work is reported in HSE RR605 (2008), which provides context, background and data for the work reported here.
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A Darby and P Pitts of the Health and Safety Laboratory and Health and Safety and Health and Safety Executive
(RR613)
Published 05.02.2008
Back disorders are the most common form of ill health at work and this is one reason why HSE has made reducing their prevalence a priority.
The work reported here is the second part of a project looking at whole-body vibration exposure and other ergonomic risk factors for back pain from driving occupations. Phase 1 of the project is reported in RR612. The project is an exploratory study of back pain in drivers. The small sample size of the study means that it will not be possible to draw strong conclusions about relationships between exposure data and self-reported musculoskeletal disorders. However as future studies use the data collection toolkit developed during this project to add to the library of data, it will be possible to analyse the records for evidence of possible combined effects of whole-body vibration and ergonomic stressors as sources of back pain.
Phase 2 of the project, essentially a data gathering exercise, involved applying the toolkit to a number of vehicles. The part of Phase 2 concerned with port vehicles is reported here. Eight port vehicles were studied for this part of the project