Health and Safety Laboratory

The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) is an executive agency of the Health and Safety Executive. HSL provides operational support to HSE through its involvement in incident investigations and studies of workplace situations. It also conducts longer-term projects on the analysis and resolution of occupational health and safety problems. Besides delivering a service to HSE, HSL also provides services to other government departments, other governments and the private sector.

HSL can be contacted at:

Business Development Unit
Health & Safety Laboratory
Harpur Hill
Buxton
Derbyshire
SK17 9JN

Tel No: +44 (0)1298 218 218
Fax No: +44 (0)1298 218 822

Email: hslinfo@hsl.gov.uk

• Class 1: Annual Reports and Accounts
• Class 2: HSL Publications
• Class 3: Proficiency Testing schemes
• Class 4: HSL Bibliography

HSE Publication Scheme

Class 1: Annual reports and accounts

Document	Definition	Availability	Format	Cost
Annual reports and accounts	Last four years of reports are available online.Earlier reports available on request from the Business Development Unit	Online	Adobe Acrobat .pdf	Free

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Class 2: HSL publications

Current leaflets and information sheets which are available free of charge

Document	Definition	Availability	Format	Cost
Methods for the Determination of Hazardous Substances (MDHS)	A series of publications on procedures for the measurement of personnel exposure to contaminants in air.	Online / HSE Books	Adobe Acrobat .pdf / Hard copy	Free / £
HSL reports HSE Research publications website	Reports produced for research contracted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Publications are listed under the following subject headings: fire, explosion and process safety; engineering control; work environment;occupational health; behavioural and social science; risk assessment.	Online	Adobe Acrobat .pdf	Free

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Class 3: Proficiency testing schemes

Document	Definition	Availability	Format	Cost
Proficiency testing schemes	Information on the proficiency testing schemes operated in support of workplace and environmental risk assessments.	Online	Webpages	Free

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Class 4: HSL Bibliography

HSL seeks to publish the results of its work where appropriate, and publishes about 100 papers a year in the peer-reviewed scientific press and conference proceedings. Papers appear in over 90 different journals covering a diverse range of subjects.

Document	Definition	Availability	Format	Cost
HSL Bibliography	Provides a subject-based list of published papers, from 1995 onwards, with details of author, title and source of reference. The bibliography does not provide copies of full text documents.	Online	Webpages	Free

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