Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Organisations
Chesterfield House, 385 Euston Road, London NW1 3AU
Status: Charitable
Principal functions and activities: The Haemophilia Society represents all people with haemophilia and related bleeding disorders and provides information to those who are affected and others who wish to learn about the condition.
12 David House, 45 High Street, London SE25 6HJ
Status: The statutory authority for hairdressers.
Principal functions and activities: Maintaining the (state) register of qualified hairdressers; striving to raise standards of safety and practice; fielding and advising on complaints from consumers (over 3,000 in 2001); publishing magazines and newsletters for registered hairdressers.
The Octagon, 35 Baird Street, Glasgow G4 0EE, UK
Status: Company
Principal functions and activities: Provides comprehensive health and safety services to a wide range of public and private sector clients throughout the country.
Nelson House, Nelson Close, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP13 7NS, UK
Status: Company
Principal functions and activities: Provision of one-stop health and safety compliance programmes to organisations throughout the South of England.
17, Prospect Avenue, Rushden, Northants, NN10 6DQ, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: IOSH training; fire training; emergency services operational risk management including firefighter / emergency service manual handling; corporate workplace risk assessments.
The Old Bakehouse, Fullbridge, Maldon, Essex CM9 4LE
Status: Independent organisation.
Principal functions and activities: HASTAM provides products and services in environmental and health and safety management.
1 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA
Status: Registered charity
Principal functions and activities: To provide a national focus for interdisciplinary engineering and other matters involved in the mitigation and reduction of hazards and disasters.
PO Box 199, Sheffield S1 4YL
Status: Not-for-profit company
Principal functions and activities: Publisher of health and safety information for trade union safety representatives and also a wider global audience. Publisher of the International Labour website of the year 2000: www.hazards.org
The Headlands, 123 Green Lane, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 9DQ
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: CE marking - Machinery Directive; PUWER audit; risk assessment; standards guidance; low voltage directive; EMC directive.
Shaftsbury Centre, Percy Street, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 2AZ, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: Full Health and Safety Consultancy Services to all sizes of company ranging from large Multinationals to SME's.
Murray House, Mount Havelock, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2SF
Status: Health and safety at work enforcing authority
Principal functions and activities: To promote and secure compliance with occupational health and safety standards at places of work through inspection, educaiton and enforcement and to safeguard the health and safety of the public where this might be adversely affected by work activities.
Unit 1, Chapel Lane, Blean, Canterbury,. Kent CT2 9HE, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: Specialist construction, health and safety consultants dealing with large construction projects including RC frame, structural steel, curtain walling and rain screen. Construction phase plans, general site inspecting and full audit service.
12 Saxonville, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 5TD, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: A range of low cost online and on-site consultancy and information services, aimed at business managers within smaller organisations that cannot afford their own dedicated safety manager or to pay for outsourced consultancy fees.
Cambrian Business Centre, Chester St, Shrewsbury, UK
Status: Consultants
Principal functions and activities: Health and safety consultancy services; risk assessments; CDM Regulations;site safety audits; health and safety training
Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS
Redgrave Court, Merton Rd, Bootle, Merseyside L20 &HS
HSE Information Services, Caerphilly Business Park, Caerphilly CF83 3GG
Status: Non-departmental public body.
Principal functions and activities: The Health and Safety Executive is the government body responsible for occupational health and safety regulation in Great Britain.
Priced publications can be ordered through HSE Books and all good bookshops, with the exception of legislation and a small number of joint publications by HSE and other government departments which will be available from the Stationery Office. Most free publications/leaflets are also available from HSE Books.
HSE Books, P.O. Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2WA
HSELINE is HSE's publicly available database on two host services:
HSE Infoline, HSE Information Services, Caerphilly Business Park, Caerphilly CF83 3GG
(Occupational Safety and Health Read Only Memory) HSELINE is also available on compact disc, resulting from collaboration between HSE, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (USA), the International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre of the International Labour Organisation (General), and SilverPlatter Information Services.
Four bibliographic databases on occupational safety and health are available on a compact disc marketed by SilverPlatter as OSH-ROM. The databases are NIOSHTIC, CISDOC, HSELINE and MHIDAS (Major Hazard Incident Data Service).
The equipment required includes IBM/AT (or compatible) microcomputer with minimum 640K memory; a printer if hard copy printout is required; a CD-ROM disc drive, interface board and cables.
The annual subscription is £895 + VAT and includes updated discs issued every three months.
For further details contact: SilverPlatter Information Ltd., 10 Barley Mow Passage, Chiswick, London W4 4PH, UK
OR
SilverPlatter Information Inc., 100 River Ridge Drive, Norwood, MA 02062-5043 USA
HSELINE is also available via CCOHS' CD-ROM and Internet service.
For further details contact CCOHS at:
250 Main Street East, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 1H6, Canada
In June 1998 "RILOSH" (Ryerson International Labour, Occupational Safety and Health) database was added to the OSHROM disc which already contains a unique collection of worldwide occupational safety, health, fire, chemicals and environment information. The new database "RILOSH" will be added at no extra charge to the subscriber.
RILOSH database is compiled by the Ryerson Technical University Library and Information Services in Toronto, Canada, is produced as ERL Compliant database by Sheila Pantry Associates Ltd.
RILOSH is a comprehensive database of bibliographic references to the literature covering health and safety, chemical toxicology, environmental health, safety engineering, biotechnology, biohazards, workers' compensation, workplace disability issues and a broad range of labour relations, employment practices and personnel management topics.
With references to over 130,000 items from 1975 onwards, RILOSH is a valuable
resource for those in the fields of occupational health and safety, and
labour and employment relations. It covers periodical literature and selected
books, conference proceedings and reports, mainly in English from Canadian,
American and Western European (including British) publications. A complete
list of periodical titles that have been selectively indexed is available
on the World Wide Web at:
www.ryerson.ca/library/info/mollist.html
Previously produced by the Ontario Ministry of Labour, RILOSH is now owned by and maintained by the Ryerson Polytechnic University Ryerson library. Most articles and reports referenced by RILOSH are available in the library's holdings. To request a loan, please contact the: Interlibrary Loans, Ryerson Polytechnic University Library, 350 Victoria Street, 2nd floor, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3 Canada.
83 Ladas Drive, Belfast BT6 9FR
Status: Non-departmental public body
Principal functions and activities: HSENI is the enforcing authority for health and safety in a range of work situations including: manufacturing, chemical plants, construction, transport, gas supply and distribution, agriculture, mines and quarries, schools and universities, hospitals and nursing homes, disciplined services, district councils, government departments and fairgrounds.
2 Harbour Road, Bo'ness, West Lothian EH51 9LF, UK
Status: Not-for-profit Sole Trader
Principal functions and activities: To provide study support for students and experienced health and safety
professionals alike, also to provide updates on health and safety related
news, events and legislation.
The Annex, Suite 8 Thornlea, Hale, Cheshire, WA15 8WL, UK
Status: Company
Principal functions and activities: Health and safety advisory services and consultancy; training, competent person assistance; telephone service.
Harpur Hill, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 9JN, UK
Status: Agency of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Principal functions and activities: Set up in 1975 as the Research and Laboratory Services Division of the Health and Safety Executive, renamed as the Health and Safety Laboratory and acquired agency status in 1995.
3 Adams Drive, Fleet, Hants GU51 3DZ, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: Comprehensive selection of health and safety services to companies, specialising in assisting SMEs. Offering a range of low cost on-site consultancy and information and training services, aimed at business managers within smaller organisations that do not have their own dedicated health and safety manager.
16 Market Square, Sandy, Beds, SG19 1HU, UK
Status: Private limited company
Principal functions and activities: Provision of health and safety consultancy services, both on and off site; documentation, training, OHSAS 18001, risk assessment of all sorts; planning supervision.
e-Innovation Centre, Telford Campus, Priorslee, Telford, TF2 9FT, UK
Status: Training company
Principal functions and activities: The provision of health and safety training, site surveys and assistance with general legal requirements.
Trillium House, 32 New Street, St Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 2UH, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: Safety consultancy; safety training; iInsurance underwriting surveys.
27 Park Road, Duffield, Derby DE56 4GL, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: Health and safety consultancy; risk assessments; accident investigation; safety policies; health and safety training; banksman manual handling; IOSH working safely.
Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET
Status: University establishment, funded by government, research councils, industry and charities.
Principal functions and activities: To carry out research, co-ordinate knowledge, and provide assistance and training in the field of occupational health and safety.
(formerly Safety Unit, Birmingham University)
14 Harbour Ave, Comberton, Cambridge CB3 7DD, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: General health and safety consultancy, especially laboratory, COSHH, biological and radioisotope safety.
see: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EXCELLENCE
Central Office: 7th Floor, Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn, London WC1V 7BA, UK
See website for contact details for the different Centres within the HPA.
Status: Government agency
Principal functions and activities: Provides a comprehensive health protection service in the areas of infectious diseases, chemical hazards, poisons and radiation.
Unit C4, Olympic Business Park, Drybridge Rd, Kilmarnock KA2 9BE, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: Chartered safety and health practitioners; CDM co-ordinators; environmental and fire Consultants; CITB training providers; planning supervision.
Cartref-Ci, Wonastow, Monmouth, NP25 4DL, UK
Status: Consultancy
Principal functions and activities: Provision of health and safety services to the healthcare sector.
27, Aykroft, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 0QX, UK
Status: Public company
Principal functions and activities: Services include occupational health and safety, health surveillance, sickness absence reviews, pre-employment screening, night workers' screening, drivers' medicals, forklift drivers' medicals, risk management training and manual handling training. Free managers' Occupational Health Helpline along with 1-2 free health promotion events per annum.
Brook House,
Edmonds Close,
Dennington Industrial Estate,
Wellingborough,
Northants,
NN8 2QY, UK
Status: Registered company
Principal functions and activities: CDM training and consultancy; general health and safety consultancy; fire risk assessment.
Esca House, 34 Palace Court, London W2 4JG
Status: A joint committee between employers (Heating and Ventilating Contractors' Association) and union (MSF Craft Sector)
Principal functions and activities: The Joint Safety Committee (JSC) was inaugurated in 1967. Its role is to act as a focal point for all issues relating to health and safety in the heating and ventilating, air-conditioning and refrigeration engineering sectors.
Dugard House, Peartree Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 OUL, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: Health and safety training and consultancy
39 Grayswood Park Road, Quinton, Birmingham B32 1HF, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: Provision of health, safety and environmental consultancy with specialisation in occupational hygiene.
Unit 11, Peerglow Industrial Estate, Olds Approach, Watford, Hertfordshire WD18 9SR
Status: Private limted company
Principal functions and activities: Substance misuse training and drug and alcohol screening services.
Project Works, Doctor Lane, Sheffield S9 5AP, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: Provision of health and safety advice, training and software management tools.
Llys Caradoc, Penmachno, Betws-y-Coed, Conwy, LL24 0YG, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: audiometry; noise surveys; fire training; fire risk assessment; health and safety training.
81 Addison Road, Guildford GU1 3QE
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: Ergonomics, human factors and health & safety consultancy.
All Saints Court, 76 Branston Road, Burton on Trent DE14 3GP, UK
Status: Limited company
Principal functions and activities: Health and safety advisers and training providers
Wrens Court, 55 Lower Queen St, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1RT, UK
Status: Independent partnership
Principal functions and activities: Consultancy practice dealing exclusively with legionellosis risk management, independent from any water treatment/water hygiene companies.