Non-ionising radiation - Information

• Keep Your Top On The Health Departments of England, Scotland and Wales have endorsed this advice on the health risks from working in the sun.
• Sun protection: advice for employers of outdoor workers (INDG337, 04/01). This gives advice to employers on reducing the health risks to their employees when they are working outside in the sun.
• Reducing health risks from the use of ultraviolet (UV) tanning equipment (INDG209, 04/09). This contains information both for people who have responsibility for commercial UV tanning facilities and for the customers who use them.
• UV tanning equipment MISC869. This poster accompanies the leaflet Reducing health risks from the use of ultraviolet (UV) tanning equipment INDG209 (rev 1).

Controlling the Radiation Safety of Display Laser Installations (ISBN 0 7176 0691). This has laser safety information for both employers and employees who use lasers for display purposes as well as advice for those who manufacture or supply such equipment.

These are all available from HSE Books.

Research

• Research reports on non-ionising radiation