Explosives
Explosives: your health and safety responsibilities
Includes manufacturing, storing, transfer and disposal.
Explosives law and enforcement
The regulations, how they are enforced, market surveillance.
Explosives authorisations and licensing
Includes licensing to manufacture or store, certificates to acquire/keep, RCAs for transfer.
Classification of explosives for transport
Includes overview, UN test results, UN test series, FAQs, analogy, non-contracting party, UN default scheme for fireworks and how to apply.
Fireworks
Selling, storing, organising a fireworks display.
Ammonium nitrate
Security, safe storage and handling, law on importing and using ammonium nitrate.
Manufacture, storage and carriage of thermites and thermite containing articles
Includes guidance on the appropriate approach to the classification for transport.
Contacts: explosives
Contacting HSE and other organisations about explosives.
Archive of explosives incidents
Information about the causes and effects of explosives and firework incidents in the UK.
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