by Shane Henson — January 6, 2014—Businesses involved in the handling or storing of flammable substances could improve employee safety through reading guidance on controlling hazardous substances in the workplace published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety.
Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002. Approved Code of Practice and Guidance is the consolidation of five HSE Approved Codes of Practice (ACOPs) under the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations, covering issues from plant design and operation through to maintenance.
According to HSE, through combining the guidance, it hopes to help management, supervisory staff, safety representatives and technical specialists more quickly and easily understand how to protect their workers from dangerous substances and explosive atmospheres.
“The text is now clearer and simpler overall, and merging the five ACOPs eliminates repetition across the original documents,” said Kären Clayton, director of HSE’s Long Latency Health Risks Division. “Navigation has been improved with an enhanced contents list to enable the dutyholder to find the advice that is of most interest to them.”
