Resources
Includes contacts, frequently asked questions, archive of explosives incidents, publications and useful links.
Publications
- CIS45 – Establishing exclusion zones when using explosives in demolition
- INDG407 – Storing and selling fireworks safely - Advice for anyone selling fireworks
- Fireworks in shops: Retailers' risk assessment checklist
- INDG476 – storing and selling pyrotechnics safely – Advice for anyone selling pyrotechnics
- Retail of pyrotechnics: Retailer's risk assessment checklist
- ETIS16 – Special or visual effects involving explosions or pyrotechnics used in film and television productions
- L150 – Overarching guidance – safety provisions
- L138 Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres. Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002. Approved Code of Practice and guidance
- Memorandum for the guidance of applicants for a licence to handle explosives at a harbour or other place
- Guide for those applying to the health and safety executive for a licence to manufacture or store explosives
- INDG230 – Storing and handling ammonium nitrate
- L149 - Mines Regulations. Guidance on regulations
- L118 – Health and safety at quarries. Quarries Regulations 1999. Approved Code of Practice
- The storage of ammonium nitrate blasting intermediate (ANBI) in an underground mine
- L155 – A guide to the Dangerous Goods in Harbour Areas Regulations 2016
- INDG335 Is it explosive? Dangers of explosives in metal recycling
- INDG477 – storing and selling shooting supplies safely
- Guidance on the manufacture, storage and carriage of thermites and thermite containing articles