Explosives
Getting started
Make sure your explosives business complies with health and safety law
Authorisations/licensing
Licenses, explosives certificates, transfer of explosives and recipient competent authority (RCA) documents
Explosives regulations
Regulations, guidance structure, subsector guidance and Explosives Legislative Review (ELR)
Classification for transport
UN test results, UN test series FAQs, analogy, non-contracting party, UN default scheme for fireworks and how to apply
Placing civil explosives on the GB market
Changes to the law after Brexit - product markings, standards, approved bodies and representatives
What an economic operator must do if they consider a civil explosive is not in conformity
Requirements on economic operators depending on their role in the supply chain
Manufacturing explosives
Manufacture, licence and insurance
Fireworks
Selling, storing, organising a fireworks display
Ammonium nitrate
Security, safe storage and handling, law on importing and using ammonium nitrate
Discarding and disposal of explosives
Safely disposing of explosives or explosive contaminated material
Transfer of explosives
Get approval for transfer, Recipient Competent Authority document (RCAD)
Reporting loss
Duty to report losses of relevant explosives
Market surveillance
Legislative framework, market surveillance, powers of market surveillance
Manufacture, storage and carriage of thermites and thermite containing articles
Classification for transport of thermites and thermite containing articles
Identification and traceability of explosives
Background, marking of items, exceptions to marking requirements
Applying for a site identification code
Who to apply to for a site code and exceptions
Resources
Contacts, frequently asked questions, archive of explosives incidents, publications and useful links
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