The minutes from the 95th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (ACTS) held on 12 April 2010 are now available.
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- Biscuit giant prosecuted after worker’s fingers severed in mixing machine
- HSE responds to Scotland on Sunday
- HSE welcomes Court of Appeal decision
- Pontypool building firm prosecuted for unlicensed asbestos work
- Carlisle worker’s skull crushed in six metre fall
- Architects and construction firm fined after worker falls nine metres to his death
- HSE responds to Express and Echo reader’s letter
- HSE responds to Portsmouth News letters page
- HSE publications translated – Information and advice in world languages
- BOAD free events nationwide – new dates
- Quarry firm fined after worker plunge in 30-tonne wheel loader
- HSE targets ageing installations with new offshore inspection programme
- Provision of development of three pilot vocational “Learning Products”
- RR819: A small survey of exposure to rubber process dust, rubber fume and N-nitrosamines
- Provision of practical training for Agriculture Safety and Health Awareness Days (SHAD’s)
- Workyear 2010/2011: Inspection of premises using MbOCA and isocyanates in the manufacture of moulded polyurethane articles
- Buncefield prosecution – HSE podcast July 2010
- FAQs – Do employers have to provide personal protective equipment?
- Construction Infonet – July 2010
- HSE Board meeting agenda – July 28 2010
- Publication of HSE Annual Report and Accounts 2009/10
- Advice on acceptance criteria for damaged passive fire protection coatings on offshore installations
- Riser emergency shut down valve (ESDV) leakage assessment
- RR821 – Gathering intelligence from referrals to HSL for hand-arm vibration syndrome
- European campaign on hazardous substances in motor vehicle repair
- Good and best practice offshore – collection of examples
- Focus on…Serious accident on spindle moulder
- Operational circulars on REACH. OC 253/11, OC 253/12 and OC 253/13
- Hospitality Industry Newsletter – Issue 2
- Construction company put workers at risk of falls
- Castle Bromwich firm fined after worker injured by robot
- Noise ebulletin – free news and updates
- RR818 – Follow up evaluation of HSE’s web based Work-Related Violence Toolkit
- FAQs – When do the CDM Regulations 2007 apply to a project?
- HSE Chair’s speech at NEBOSH Graduation
- RR820 – Tower crane incidents worldwide
- Worker loses lower leg after paving machine crush
- HSE responds to Safety & Health Practitioner
- Firm fined after scaffold collapse
- Managing for Health & Safety – Know where you stand: essentials
- HSE Podcast – Buncefield prosecution
- SPC/Enf/171 – Duty holder consultation with safety representatives in safety cases
- FIT testing of Respiratory Protective Equipment facepieces – updated
- Work related stress – online exercises for health and safety representatives
- Offshore eBulletin – free news & updates
- Did you know…? Disability
- Peterlee firm fined after worker’s hand severed
- Telford firm fined after worker loses fingers
- The European Good Practice Awards 2010 – Safe Maintenance
- Agriculture champion’s stark message to Welsh farmers
- RoSPA Scotland Occupational Safety and Health at Work Congress
- RoSPA Scotland Occupational Safety and Health at Work Congress
- Pesticide approvals for June 2010
- Pesticide approvals for June 2010
- Temporary Refuge Impairment Frequency for Normally Unattended Installations
- Temporary Refuge Impairment Frequency for Normally Unattended Installations
- Frozen food specialist fined after worker loses finger
- Scaffolding firm prosecuted for dangerous installation
- Safety notice – Avoiding trapping/crushing injuries to people in the platform of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs)
- £9.5m bill for firms behind Britain’s most costly industrial disaster
- Arrangements for risk ranking and performance rating operators of Gas Distribution Networks and Pipelines
- SMT agenda, minutes and papers for 2 June 2010
- Woodworking health topics – manual handling
- Pirelli fined after Carlisle worker injured by forklift truck
- Firm fined after man has top of finger amputated
- Safety notice – Risks associated with working on or near lamp columns with non-standard roots during excavation works
- Better Gas Safe than sorry – Always check the card
- Steeplejack seriously injured after fall from bell chamber
- Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (ACTS)
- Worker suffers multiple injuries at barn
- Nuclear LLC quarterly reports 2010 (Qtr 2)
- Letter from joint chairs of HELA to Directors of Environmental Health/Chief Environmental Health Officers
- Local Authority Circular – Guidance for other people to accompany enforcement officers on site
- Design management
- Courtroom drama for construction industry
- Car wash firm failed to protect workers
- Caerphilly engineering company fined after workers’ fingers severed
- European campaign on hazardous substances in MVR
- Rise in farm deaths shows HSE is right to drive home message
- Two leading health and safety figures awarded engineering fellowship
- Nuclear LLC report Q2 2010 – Springfields Fuels Limited
- Introduction of safety bulletins
- HSE Podcast – How offshore drilling is regulated
- Health Protection Agency exposed staff to E.coli
- REACH Bitesize guides
- HSE Scotland eBulletin newsletter – subscribe today
- Managing the segregation and isolation of potable water systems on offshore installations
- Visibility for operators of telehandlers (variable reach lift trucks)
- Workforce Involvement Group (WIG) pages relaunched
- HSE formalises safety partnership with British Sugar
- London 2012 Games – HSE and the health and safety legacy
- July myth of the month – health and safety brings candyfloss to a sticky end
- Newmarket event to help reduce death and injury in farming
- FAQs – How many first aiders do I require?
- Farmers urged to think safety ahead of flagship show
- Foamed concrete explosion – HSE Investigation Concluded
- Safety Alert – Fatality caused by stacked boards collapse
- RR811: A literature review of the health and safety risks associated with major sporting events
- Review of CHaSPI
- Life saving work
- Rochdale cleaner’s crush death prompts £140,000 fine
- Free safety support for Southampton businesses
- Evaluation of the simplified lifting operations and lifting equipment leaflet (LOLER)
- Company fined after worker hit by fork-lift truck
- Roofing firm in court after apprentice plunge
- An investigation into the use of plasterboard manual handling aids in construction
- Nuclear LLC quarterly reports 2010 (Qtr 1)
- Company ordered to pay £75,000 after farm worker is crushed to death
- Machine supplier and university fined after worker traps arm in harvester
- Comet fined £75,000 over Wrexham fatal roof fall
- Comet group prosecuted following death of worker in Wrexham
- Three North East workers lose their lives at work
- HSE investigates two deaths involving gates
- 19 North West workers lose their lives at work
- CONIAC – Open meeting to be held on Wednesday 21 July 2010
- Farm worker’s arm cut with chainsaw
- 22 Yorkshire and Humber workers lose their lives at work
- Tackling stress at work – the roles everyone has to play
- Myth of the month – July 2010
- Action Mesothelioma Day 2010
- Ten West Midlands workers lose their lives at work
- Thirteen East Midlands workers lose their lives at work
- MDHS102 – Aldehydes in air
- RR804: Plastic containers for flammable liquids/hazardous areas
- Global logistics and tobacco firms fined after worker is crushed to death
- Worker shatters leg in telehandler plunge
- HSE supports decision on Ram Brewery development
- HSE Newsletter subscribe today – working in the public interest
- East of England workers lose their lives at work
- 11 London workers lose their lives at work
- Control and management of hazardous substances in semiconductor manufacturers in Great Britain in 2009
- 14 South East workers lose their lives at work
- Determining current health and safety practices, awareness of HSE initiatives and economic trends in relation to isocyanate paint use in the MVR sector
- HSE Chair speech – Devonport Dockyard
- Two Cornish companies fined after fall through fragile roof light
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