Publications and guidance
This page provides links to sources of information and guidance on health and safety in the waste management and recycling industries.
Asbestos
Chemical waste
Falls from height (general)
- Inspecting fall arrest equipment made from webbing or rope (INDG367)
- Working at height: A brief guide (INDG401)
General
- Stay clean - stay healthy: Looking after your health in the waste/recycling industry (INDG415]
- Work equipment and machinery
- Buying new machinery: a short guide (INDG271)
- Providing and using work equipment safely: A brief guide (INDG291)
- Do you use a steam/water pressure cleaner? (INDG68)
- Controlling the risks in the workplace (INDG163)
- Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare
- Risk assessment
Landfill
Landfill fires - controlling the risk
Machinery
- Baling machine guidance can be found in section 8 of INDG392 - recover paper safely (INDG 392)
- Crushing
Manual handling and musculoskeletal disorders
- Conveyor belt workstation design
- Manual Handling: Guidance on the Regulations
- Upper Limb Disorders in the Workplace
- HSE Manual handling website
Metal recycling and motor vehicle dismantling
- Lead and you (INDG 305)
- How to reduce exposure to dioxins in aluminium recycling (INDG377)
- Is it explosive? Dangers of explosives in metal recycling (INDG335)
- A guide to the handling and storage of airbags and seat belt pretensioners at garages and motor vehicle repair workshops (INDG280)
- Safe use of petrol in garages (INDG331)
- Safe working with vehicle air-conditioning systems (INDG349)
- Using electric storage batteries safely (INDG 139)
- Working with Nickel - are you at risk? (INDG351)
- Safe working with LPG-fuelled motor vehicles (INDG387)
Guidance on work with liquefied petroleum fuelled vehicles (autogas) can be found on the UKLPG website.
Paper recycling
Guidance for the Recovered Paper Industry (INDG392)
Plastics waste and recycling
Fire and explosion risks from pentane in expandable polystyrene (EPS) PPIS1
Slips and trips (general)
Transport (general)
- Managing Vehicle Safety at the Workplace (INDG199)
- Driving at work: Managing work-related road safety (INDG382)
- Research report RR018 - Management of work related road safety
- Research report RR020 - The contribution of individual factors to driving behaviour: implications for managing work-related road safety