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Health and Safety Bulletins 2012

Health and safety bulletins are short communications designed to keep you up to date with information you need to manage health and safety or work safely. You will find bulletins issued in 2012 on this site.

For more information about health and safety bulletins or to search other years use the appropriate link in the box on the right hand side.

Category: Committee updates
Information: Health and Safety Committee: 24 April 2012  (28 May 2012) (pdf)

Category: Best Practice
Revised Incident Report Form (Revised bulletin 15 August 2012) (pdf)
Thermal Comfort  (25 July 2012) (pdf)
New Health and Safety Guidance (Field trips, Buying Work Equipment, Responsible Research, Nanomaterials. (4 December 2012) (pdf)

Category: Policy
Serious Incidents  (30 July 2012) (pdf)
Induction (22 October 2012) (pdf)

Category: Safety Alerts
Failure of antistatic properties in safety footwear (31 August 2012) (pdf)
Unsafe outdoor furniture (27 September 2012) (pdf)
Safety alert Lloytron A134 travel adaptor  (17 October 2012) (pdf)

Category: Training and Events
IOSH Managing Safely Refresher (25 October 2012) (pdf)

Category: Legal
HSE Enforcement: Fee for Intervention (27 November 2012) (pdf)
Identifying high risk artificial light hazards in your workplace (14 December 2012) (pdf)