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HSE Research Ethics Committee - Committee Information

ETHCOM/AG/08/01

Health and Safety Executive Research Ethics Committee

The forty-fifth meeting of the Research Ethics Committee will be held on Tuesday 3 June 2008 in Meeting Room 10, HSL Buxton

The meeting will begin at 11am

  1. Introductions and apologies
  2. Minutes of the forty-fourth meeting – 26 March 2008 (ETHCOM/MIN/08/01). Matters arising (not covered by agenda)
    1. Update on proposal considered at the forty-fourth meeting
      1. Identification and Prioritisation of Health and Safety Issues in the Beauty Industry (massage and spray tanning) (ETHCOM/REG/08/02)
      1. para 6(b) – Dr Curran to check on wider promulgation of results of ETHCOM/REG/07/05 (Testing workplace protection offered by personal protective equipment used by Police/SOCA investigating illicit drug laboratories)
      2. para 9 - Secretariat to contact Stephen Swan (LAO) to discuss the issues around charging for ethical clearance and report to next REC meeting
      3. para 19 - Secretariat to add formal declaration of interest to all future REC meeting agendas
  3. Medical Secretary's Report (ETHCOM/SEC/08/02)
    • Procedures for handling ethical consideration of proposals submitted to the Committee
    • Ethical consideration before submission to HSE’s REC
    • Basic ethical, professional and legal principles of biomedical research
  4. New proposals for consideration
    1. Formal declarations of interest in proposals considered at the meeting
    2. Proposals
      1. Airfed suit work in the Nuclear industry (ETHCOM/REG/08/03)
      2. Testing of Safe Undressing Procedures for new Police Chemical Protective Clothing (ETHCOM/REG/08/04)
  5. Any other business
    1. Afternoon tour of HSL facilities
  6. Date of next meeting