HSE Research Ethics Committee - Committee Information

ETHCOM/AG/05/02

Health and Safety Executive Research Ethics Committee

The thirty-eighth meeting of the Research Ethics Committee will be held on Wednesday 23 June 2005 in the Fortune Room, Rose Court, London.

The meeting will begin at 11.00am

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AGENDA

1. Introductions and apologies.

2. Minutes of the thirty-seventh meeting - 13 June 2005 (ETHCOM/MIN/05/01).

3. Matters arising (not covered by agenda):

• (i) Update on proposals considered at the thirty-seventh meeting
  • New data collection arrangements for the Asbestos Workers Database
  • Measures of disability of the upper extremity in key industry sectors (ETHCOM/REG/05/04).
  • Investigation of objective tests for the diagnosis of vascular HAVS (ETHCOM/REG/05/05)
  • The effect of frequency of vibration exposure on temporary threshold shifts in vibrotactile perception (ETHCOM/REG/05/06).
  • Use of volunteer blood samples for HSE incident investigations into occupational illness (ETHCOM/REG/05/07).
  • Transition document – study submission – Stand-alone worker survey (2005) in HSE’s workplace health and safety programme.
• (ii) Ethics approval to perform European Standards BS EN 1499 and BS EN 1500.

4. Medical Secretary's Report (ETHCOM/SEC/05/02)

• Data usage
• Social science research
• Audit or research?

5. New proposals for consideration

• Enforcement policy statement – phase 1: victims and workers (ETHCOM/REG/05/10).
• A comparison of two manual handling techniques performed within the warehouse area in the mattress manufacturing industry. (ETHCOM/REG/05/08)
• The efficacy of risk control measuresd for kneeling work (ETHCOM/REG/05/09).

6. Social science research in HSE: presentation by Maria O’Beirne, social science unit.

7. Any other business.

8. Date of next meeting.