This report provides a survey of the recent literature on flammable mists and pulls together information that will be useful in developing a HAC methodology for explosive mist atmospheres. It focuses on the three fundamental issues: mist flammability, mist generation and mitigation measures.
Author Archives: Health and Safety
Free event: Nanotechnology Partnership for Progress – One Year on, London, 29 October 2013
This free event is designed to celebrate the Best of British Nano and will have keynote talks from Lord de Mauley and Rt Hon David Willetts MP, who jointly chair the UK Nanotechnology Strategy Forum.
How can successful prevention strategies at EU level take account of different factors at national level?
The EU has a clear role to play in workplace health and safety, stresses a report from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). The report helps also to explain why the European Framework Directive 89/391/EEC, which aims to provide a common level of protection to workers in all Member States, is put into practice in different ways across the EU.
Property developer fined for putting workers’ lives at risk
A Plymouth property developer put the lives of builders at risk by letting them work near unprotected holes up to nine metres deep at a “Dickensian” site in Cardiff, a court has heard.
Plastics firm fined after heavy bale topples onto worker
A Preston worker could have been killed when a 400kg bale struck him as it toppled from a forklift truck, a court has heard.
Case 207 – Securing windows in ground floor rented accommodation
A tenant has been advised that a downstairs window in a rented accommodation cannot be locked for health and safety reasons.
Norfolk company in court after worker’s finger injured in printing press
A Norwich printing firm has been fined for safety failings after a worker injured his finger in an unguarded machine.
Case 206 – Wearing personal headphones in the workplace
Employer says it is against health and safety regulations to wear just one personal headphone in the workplace.
Case 205 – Use of stationary cars and moped in school stage production
A head teacher and a school’s project manager disagreed about the precautions necessary to run a school production involving stationary cars and a moped.
Electricity at work: Safe working practices (third edition)
The guidance covers the key elements to consider when devising safe working practices and is for people who carry out work on or near electrical equipment. This third edition updates the guidance and provides sources of further information.