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ACOP |
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| L23 | Manual handling |
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| L24 | Workplace health, safety and welfare |
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| L25 | Personal protective equipment at work |
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| L30 | A guide to the Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 2005 |
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| L43 | First aid at mines |
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| L47 | The Coal Mines (Owner's Operating Rules) Regulations 1993 |
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| L70 | A guide to the Offshore Installations and Pipelines Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995 |
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| L75 | Guidance for railways, tramways, trolley vehicle systems and other guided transport systems on the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 |
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| L77 | Guidance to the Licensing Authority on the Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 1996 |
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| L84 | A guide to the well aspects of the Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc) Regulations 1996 |
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| L85 | A guide to the integrity, workplace environment and miscellaneous aspects of the Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc) Regulations 1996 |
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| L97 | A guide to the Level Crossings Regulations 1997 |
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| L98 | Railway safety miscellaneous provisions |
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| L103 | Commercial diving projects offshore |
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| L104 | Commercial diving projects inland/inshore |
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| L105 | Recreational diving projects |
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| L106 | Media diving projects |
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| L107 | Scientific and archaeological diving projects |
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| L118 | Health and safety at quarries |
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| L120 | Train protection systems and Mark I rolling stock |
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| L123 | Health care and first aid on offshore installations and pipeline works |
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| L128 | The use of electricity in mines |
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| L140 | Hand-arm vibration |
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| L141 | Whole-body vibration |
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| L148 | Safety in docks |
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| L149 | Mines Regulations 2014 - Guidance on Regulations |
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| L150 | Explosives Regulations: 2014 Safety provisions |
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| L151 | Explosives Regulations 2014: Security provisions |
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| L153 | Managing health and safety in construction |
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| L155 | Dangerous Goods in Harbour Areas Regulations 2016 |
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COP |
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| COP15 | Zoos - safety, health and welfare standards for employers and persons at work |
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HSA |
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| HSA69 | Guidance on Personal Protective Equipment at Work |
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HSENI |
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View | HSENI - Tractor Action |
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| View | HSENI - Mixing slurry safely |
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| View | HSENI - Ionising Radiations Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 – Guidance for notifications, registrations and consents |
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| View | HSENI - Safety in tyre and exhaust centres - information sheet |
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| View | HSENI - Warehouses - information sheet |
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| View | HSENI - Electrical safety in quarries |
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| View | HSENI - Guide on the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace |
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NI ACOP |
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| View | NI ACOP - Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare |
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| View | NI ACOP - Explosives at Quarries |
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| View | NI ACOP - Safety of Children and Young Persons in Agriculture |
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BEIS |
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| View | Growth Duty: Statutory Guidance |
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CITB Documents |
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| View | CDM 2015: Industry guidance for workers |
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| View | CDM 2015: Industry guidance for contractors |
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| View | CDM 2015: Industry guidance for principal contractors |
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| View | CDM 2015: Industry guidance for designers |
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| View | CDM 2015: Industry guidance for principal designers |
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| View | CDM 2015: Industry guidance for clients |
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Coal Authority Documents |
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| View | Guidance on Managing the Risk of Hazardous Gases when Drilling or Piling Near Coal |
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| View | Guidance on Managing the Risk of Hazardous Gases when Drilling or Piling Near Coal |
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CONIAC Document |
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| View | Occupational health risk management in construction |
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COSHH - Essentials |
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| CR0 | Advice for managers |
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| CR1 | Glaze and colour preparation |
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| CR1 | Glaze and colour preparation |
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| CR2 | Casting |
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| CR3 | Fettling |
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| CR4 | Kiln loading (placing) and unloading |
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| QY0 | Essentials in quarries: Silica. Advice for managers |
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| QY1 | Rock drilling |
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| QY2 | Excavating and haulage |
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| QY3 | Crushing |
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| QY4 | Drying and cooling |
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| QY5 | Dry screening |
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| QY7 | Jumbo bag filling: 500-1500 kg |
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| QY8 | Silica flour: Small bag (15-50 kg) filling and transfer |
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| QY9 | Mineral powders: Small bag (15-50 kg) filling and transfer |
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| QY10 | Cleaning up silica dusts |
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| QY11 | Control cabins and vehicle cabs |
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| RB0 | Advice for managers |
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| RB1 | Fume - General ventilation |
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| RB2 | Bag opening and weighing |
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| RB3 | Mixing ingredients |
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| RB4 | Milling rubber |
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| RB5 | Rubber press (small articles) |
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| RB6 | Trimming and finishing (small articles) |
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| RB7 | Cooling rack (small finished articles) |
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| WD2 | Circular bench saws |
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| WD3 | Cross-cut saws |
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| WD5 | Overhead and CNC routers |
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| WD7 | Hand-held sanding machines |
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| WD11 | Surface planer |
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| WD12 | Fixed sanding machines (narrow belt) |
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| WD13 | Fixed Sanding machine (disc) |
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| WD14 | Fixed sanding machines (drum/bobbin) |
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| WD15 | Chop saw |
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| WD17 | Suction hose attachment for cleaning |
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DCMS Documents |
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| View | Guide to safety at sports grounds |
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DEFRA |
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| View | Construction Code of Practice for the Sustainable Use of Soils on Construction Sites |
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DELNI |
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| View | Working Time Regulations 2016: A Detailed Guide |
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| View | Working Time at a Glance |
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DIS |
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| View | DIS06 - Hot work in docks |
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Draft Guidance |
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| View | DRAFT: L154 The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc) Regulations 2015: Guidance on Regulations |
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Environment Agency Documents |
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| View | Nuclear sites and land contamination |
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| View | Security of radioactive substances - the Environment Agency's role |
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| View | Radioactivity in food and the environment |
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| View | Decommissioning and clean-up |
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| View | Nuclear Regulation Group - The Environment Agency's role |
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Environmental Hygiene |
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| EH44 | Dust in the workplace |
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| EH75 | Respirable crystalline silica - Phase 1 |
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| EH75 | Portland Cement Dust |
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Government Documents |
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| View | Guide on Firearms Licensing Law |
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| View | A Guide to the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 |
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Health & Safety Guidance (HSG) - Series |
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| HSG33 | Health and safety in roof work |
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| HSG73 | Control of respirable crystalline silica in quarries |
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| HSG76 | Warehousing and storage: A guide to health and safety |
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| HSG94 | Safety in the design and use of gamma and electron irradiation facilities |
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| HSG97 | A step by step guide to COSHH assessment |
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| HSG109 | Control of noise in quarries |
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| HSG115 | Manual handling |
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| HSG129 | Health and safety in engineering workshops |
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| HSG133 | Preventing violence to retail staff |
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| HSG143 | Designing and operating safe chemical reaction processes |
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| HSG144 | The safe use of vehicles on constuction sites |
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| HSG150 | Health and safety in constuction |
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| HSG151 | Protecting the public |
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| HSG167 | Biological monitoring in the workplace |
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| HSG168 | Fire safety in construction |
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| HSG179 | Managing health and safety in swimming pools |
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| HSG201 | Controlling exposure to stonemasonry dust |
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| HSG222 | Effective health and safety training |
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| HSG223 | The regulatory requirements for medical exposure to ionising radiation: An employer's overview |
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| HSG225 | Handling home care |
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| HSG232 | Sound solutions for the food and drink industries |
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| HSG260 | Sound advice |
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| HSG261 | Health and safety in motor vehicle repair and associated industries |
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| HSG276 | Isocyanate paint spraying |
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| HSG278 | Electrical safety in mines |
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| HSG283 | Managing infection risks when handling the deceased |
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HSE Documents |
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| View | The Scottish Manual Handling Passport Scheme |
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| View | Avoiding danger from overhead power lines |
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| View | Management and operation of microbiological containment laboratories |
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HSE Information Sheet |
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View | Safe use of guns |
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| View | Selection, use and maintenance of portable monitoring instruments |
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| View | Guidance - Regulation of health and safety at work |
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| View | Radiation protection supervisors |
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| View | Getting to grips with hoisting people |
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| View | Control of radioactive substances |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Waste and recycling |
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| View | Authorisation under the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999 |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Quarries |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Sports and leisure |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Public services |
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| View | Protection of outside workers against ionising radiation |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Onshore oil and gas wells |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Offshore energy |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Mines |
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| View | Radiation doses - assessment and recording |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Manufacturing |
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| View | Offshore medic qualifications |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Logistics and transport |
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| View | Industrial Radiography - managing radiation risks |
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| View | Offshore first-aid qualifications |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Gas and pipelines |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Film, broadcasting, theatre and events |
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| View | Portable nuclear moisture/density gauges in the construction industry |
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| View | GEIS5 - Fragile roofs |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Fairgrounds and theme parks |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Explosives |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Construction |
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| View | Construction Phase Plan (CDM 2015) |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Commercial consumer services |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Chemicals |
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| View | Application of health and safety law offshore: Guidance on the legislative changes introduced by the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2013 |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Bioeconomy |
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| View | Sector plan for health and safety: Agriculture |
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| View | Reactive dyes: Safe handling in textile finishing |
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| View | Hazards from dyes and chemicals in textile finishing: A brief guide for employees |
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| View | Dyestuffs: Safe handling in textile finishing |
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| View | Dust control in dyestuff handling |
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| View | Fire and explosion risks from pentane in expandable polystyrene (EPS) |
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| View | Styrene control in fibre-reinforced plastics contact moulding |
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| View | Reducing the risk of fire or explosion during the manufacture of fibre-reinforced plastic products |
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HSE Leaflet |
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| View | Keeping your site tidy |
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| View | Protecting the public: What you need to know as a busy builder |
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| View | Construction dust: What you need to know as a busy builder |
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| View | Preventing injury from handling heavy blocks: What you need to know as a busy builder |
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| View | Preventing injury during plasterboard handling: What you need to know as a busy builder |
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| View | Old lead paint: What you need to know as a busy builder |
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| View | Fragile roofs: What you need to know as a building owner, user or managing agent |
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| View | Fragile Roofs: What you need to know as a busy builder, contractor or maintenance worker |
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| View | People in commercial waste containers |
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| View | Managing "task and finish" to reduce safety risks |
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| View | When a health and safety inspector calls |
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| View | Guidance on the application of Fee for Intervention (FFI) |
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| View | Fee for intervention: What you need to know |
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HSENI leaflet |
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| View | Slurry gases can kill |
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IAEA Safety Standards |
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View | The Operating Organisation, and the Recruitment, Training and Qualification of Personnel for Research Reactors |
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INDG |
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| INDG69 | Violence at work |
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| INDG95 | Respiratory sensitisers and COSHH |
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| INDG119 | Safety representatives and safety committees on offshore installations |
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| INDG136 | Working with substances hazardous to health |
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INDG143 | Manual handling at work: a brief guide |
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| INDG145 | Watch your back |
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| INDG174 | A short guide to the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 |
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| INDG175 | Control the risks from hand-arm vibration |
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| INDG185 | Tractor action |
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| INDG207 | Wear your dosemeter |
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| INDG242 | Control back-pain risks from whole-body vibration |
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| INDG244 | Workplace health, safety and welfare |
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| INDG246 | Is poultry dust making you ill? |
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| INDG254 | Chemical reaction hazards and the risk of thermal runaway |
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| INDG266 | Are you involved in a diving project at work? |
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| INDG270 | Supplying new machinery |
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| INDG271 | Buying new machinery |
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| INDG277 | Leadership for the major hazard industries |
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| INDG278 | Tree work accidents |
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| INDG280 | A guide to handling and storage of airbags and seatbelt pretensioners at garages and motor vehicle repair shops |
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| INDG284 | Working on roofs |
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| INDG294 | Managing health and safety in forestry |
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| INDG296 | Hand-arm vibration |
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| INDG303 | Do you work in a quarry? |
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| INDG318 | Manual handling solutions in woodworking |
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| INDG332 | Manual packing in the brick industry |
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| INDG344 | The absolutely essential health and safety toolkit for the smaller construction contractor |
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| INDG348 | Mark a parcel, save a back |
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| INDG356 | Reducing ill health and accidents in motor vehicle repair |
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| INDG359 | Waste industry safety and health |
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| INDG360 | Health and safety in audio visual production |
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| INDG361 | Regulating health and safety in the UK offshore oil and gas fields |
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| INDG369 | Why fall for it? Preventing falls in agriculture |
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| INDG371 | Health and safety in ski-slope operations |
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| INDG379 | Health and safety in road haulage |
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| INDG382 | Driving at work |
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| INDG384 | The high 5: Five ways to reduce risk on site |
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| INDG388 | Safety in motor vehicle repair |
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| INDG404 | Drive away bad backs |
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| INDG410 | Working in the UK from overseas? Your health and safety at work in agriculture and food processing |
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| INDG411 | Need building work done? |
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| INDG412 | Warehousing and storage |
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| INDG414 | Employing workers from overseas: Guidance for employers in agriculture and food processing |
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| INDG421 | Play your part! How offshore workers can help improve health and safety |
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| INDG423 | Managing work-related violence in retail and licensed premises |
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| INDG427 | Farmwise: Your essential guide to health and safety in agriculture |
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| INDG429 | Bakers - time to clear the air! |
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| INDG433 | Safety during tyre repair and inflation in motor vehicle repair |
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| INDG434 | Working safely under motor vehicles being repaired |
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| INDG440 | Supervising for safety in woodworking |
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| INDG441 | Arsenic and you |
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| INDG442 | Cobalt and you |
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| INDG446 | A quick guide to health and safety in ports |
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| INDG473 | SMART paint spraying |
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| INDG478 | Risk assessment of pushing and pulling (RAPP) tool |
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| INDG480 | Hand-arm vibration in amenity horticulture and how to control the risk |
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Marine Guidance Notes (MGN) |
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| View | MGN 331: The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Provision and Use of Work Equipment) Regulations 2006 |
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| View | MGN 429: The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Asbestos) Regulations 2010 |
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| View | MGN 428: The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Artificial Optical Radiation) Regulations 2010. |
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| View | MGN 353: The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Control of Vibration at Work) Regulations 2007 |
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| View | MGN 410: The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Work at Height) Regulations 2010 |
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| View | MGN 564: Marine Casualty and Marine Incident Reporting |
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| View | MGN 451: Risk of Exposure to Radiation |
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| View | MGN 452: Electrical - Potential Hazards of Arc Flash Associated with High and Low Voltage Equipment |
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| View | MGN 559: Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Electromagnetic Fields) Regulations 2016 |
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| View | MGN 497: Dangerous Goods - including Chemicals and other Materials - Storage and Use on Board Ship |
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| View | MGN 264 (M0 Medical fitness requirements for those employed on boats certificated under MCA codes of practice,crew of seagoing local passenger vessels and non-seagoing boatmasters) |
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| View | MGN 332: The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment) Regulations 2006 |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 90 Implementation of EC Directive 90/269/EC Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Manual Handling Operations) Regulations 1998 |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 83 Guidelines and Specifications for Hyperbaric Evacuation Systems |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 81 Guidelines for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water to Minimise the Transfer of Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 79 Safety Equipment and Pollution Prevention Equipment Carried in Excess of Statutory Requirements |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 78 Launching Crews for Lifeboats, Rescue Boats, Class C Boats, Inflatable Boats and Other Boats |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 76 Lifejackets carried on Passanger Ships |
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| View | Marine Guidance note 77 Instructions for Action in Survival Craft |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 71 Musters, drills, on-board training and instructions, and Decision Support Systems |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 70 Guidelines in the allocation of responsibilities to seek the successful resolution of stowaway cases |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 60 Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes (BC Code): 1996 Amendment |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 69 Training and Certification Guidance - Part 11 |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 59 Special Requirements for the Transport of Heated Liquids and Powdery or Granulated Materials in Portable Tanks |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 50 Manning of Pilot Boats |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 52 Testing of Emergency Sources of Electrical Power |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 37 The Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods and Marine Pollutants) Regulations 1997 |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 33 Sewage systems on ships |
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| View | Marine Guidance 34 Lifeboat engines and other compression ignition engines used in an emergency |
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| View | Guidance to Implementation of EC Directive 89/391 |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 26 High Speed Craft Training |
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| View | Training and Certification Guidance - Part 8 |
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| View | Marine Guidance Note 21 on Ro-Ro Ships |
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MCA Documents |
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| View | Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers |
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ORR Documents |
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| View | RGD-2010-12: Excellence in health and safety culture and risk control |
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| View | RGD-2012-01: Guidance on the requirements in ROGS that relate to entities in charge of the maintenance of railway vehicles |
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| View | RGD-2011-04: Railway specific "matters of evident concern" |
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| View | RGD-2008-16: ROGS Duty of Co-operation |
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| View | RGD-2010-01: Health and safety "matters of evident concern" |
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| View | RGD-2008-07: Information on technical specifications for interoperability (TSIs) |
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| View | RGD-2007-09: The Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulation 2006 (ROGS) - Part 4 Safety Critical Work |
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| View | RGD-2007-06: Thermal comfort and heat in train cabs |
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| View | RGD-2004-16: Handling of rail enquiries and complaints under the Working Time Regulations 1998 |
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| View | RGD-2004-07: The carriage of dangerous goods by rail |
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| View | RGD-2003-11: The management of asbestos in non-domestic premises |
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| View | Managing Rail Staff Fatigue |
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| View | ORR guidance on the application of the common safety method (CSM) on risk assessment and evaluation |
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| View | Developing and maintaining staff competence |
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| View | Safe movement of trains |
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| View | Safety critical tasks - clarification of ROGS Regulations requirements |
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WISH Documents |
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| View | Health and safety training in waste management and recycling |
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| View | Designing and operating material recovery facilities (MRFs) safely |
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| View | Skip and container safety in waste management and recycling |
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| View | Compactor equipment: Public and user safety |
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| View | Hand sorting of recyclables ("totting") with vehicle assistance |
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| View | Managing health and safety in civic amenity sites |
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| View | Safe transport at waste and recycling sites |
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| View | Safety at 'bring-sites' in the waste management and recycling industry |
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| View | Safe waste and recycling collection services |
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| View | Waste and recycling vehicles in street collection |
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| View | Recovery of petrol from end-of-life vehicles |
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Health & Safety Regulations (HSR) - Series |
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| HSR27 | A guide to Dangerous Substances in Harbour Areas Regulations 1987 |
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| HSR28 | A guide to the Loading and Unloading of Fishing Vessels Regulations 1988 |
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