Hazardous substances

COVID-19 has shown that biohazards can threaten organisations in any sector. How are health and safety practices being developed to meet the challenge of future outbreaks?

A safety consultant has been prosecuted for providing inadequate and flawed advice on noise, vibration and hazardous substances.

The minimum percentage of registration dossiers to be checked for compliance has increased.

Owner must pay £220k for multiple safety breaches

A car bodysprayer developed occupational asthma after using paints that contained isocyanates without adequate controls measures in place, a court has heard.

Only 19% of the organisations potentially exposing employees to asthmagens have health surveillance, according to Health and Safety Executive (HSE) research.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has updated its enforcement guidance after new evidence found that exposure to even mild steel welding fume can cause lung cancer and possibly kidney cancer.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a farm after a faulty chemicals pump sprayer ruptured into the face of the employee. 

The University of Edinburgh has been accused of “completely failing to grasp the importance of risk-based health surveillance,” by an HSE inspector after two researchers were exposed to rodents, despite being allergic.

A petition to include mandatory quick response (QR) codes on hazardous substances that link to Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) from manufacturers has been created.