Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations
These regulations are intended to correct issues that have arisen since the new regulations on the manufacture and storage of explosives came into force in April 2005. They also take the opportunity to reduce the administrative burden resulting from explosives legislation by extending the maximum periods of validity of explosives certificates and storage licences. They will also revoke redundant and outdated local mining regulations and correct an omission in the Control of Noise at Work regulations.
Further information on Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations
Factories Act 1961 and Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations
These regulations remove several legislative form filling requirements that currently apply to most businesses operating from a factory, office or shop (and certain railway premises)in Great Britain. The regulations introduce no new requirements and cover two areas:
Premises notification - employers will no longer be required to fill out a form to notify HSE or their local authority of any factory, office or shop premises, and certain railway premises, where employees work.
The general register - factory employers will no longer be required to keep a set of records and forms called the general register.
We think these requirements are no longer needed and have been removed without detriment to current health and safety protection.
Further information on Factories Act 1961 and Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations
The Health and Safety Information (Amendment) Regulations
The 1989 Regulations require employers to provide health and safety information, including the contact details for the local health and safety enforcing authority office and Employment Medical Advisory Service (EMAS) office, to their employees by displaying in the workplace the approved poster or giving each employee the approved leaflet. The amendments allow HSE to approve and publish new posters and leaflets which do not require the addition or updating of enforcing authority and EMAS contact information by businesses displaying them.
Further information the Health and Safety Information (Amendment) Regulations
Chemical (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2009 - to be known as CHIP 4
The current CHIP Regulations have been amended as a consequence of the adoption and entry into force of the European Regulation on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures, known as the CLP Regulation. The CLP Regulation adopts in the European Union, the internationally agreed Global Harmonised System on the classification and labelling of chemicals, known as the 'GHS'. Although the CLP Regulation will be directly acting on Member States, without the need for transposition, the proposed amendments will allow CHIP to be aligned with the transitional period of the CLP Regulation and to ensure that the provisions of the CLP Regulation can be enforced in Great Britain, both throughout the transitional period and beyond.
These regulations are intended to correct issues that have arisen since the new regulations on the manufacture and storage of explosives came into force in April 2005. They also take the opportunity to reduce the administrative burden resulting from explosives legislation by extending the maximum periods of validity of explosives certificates and storage licences. They will also revoke redundant and outdated local mining regulations and correct an omission in the Control of Noise at Work regulations.
Further information on Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations
Factories Act 1961 and Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations
These regulations remove several legislative form filling requirements that currently apply to most businesses operating from a factory, office or shop (and certain railway premises)in Great Britain. The regulations introduce no new requirements and cover two areas:
Premises notification - employers will no longer be required to fill out a form to notify HSE or their local authority of any factory, office or shop premises, and certain railway premises, where employees work.
The general register - factory employers will no longer be required to keep a set of records and forms called the general register.
We think these requirements are no longer needed and have been removed without detriment to current health and safety protection.
Further information on Factories Act 1961 and Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations
The Health and Safety Information (Amendment) Regulations
The 1989 Regulations require employers to provide health and safety information, including the contact details for the local health and safety enforcing authority office and Employment Medical Advisory Service (EMAS) office, to their employees by displaying in the workplace the approved poster or giving each employee the approved leaflet. The amendments allow HSE to approve and publish new posters and leaflets which do not require the addition or updating of enforcing authority and EMAS contact information by businesses displaying them.
Further information the Health and Safety Information (Amendment) Regulations
Chemical (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2009 - to be known as CHIP 4
The current CHIP Regulations have been amended as a consequence of the adoption and entry into force of the European Regulation on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures, known as the CLP Regulation. The CLP Regulation adopts in the European Union, the internationally agreed Global Harmonised System on the classification and labelling of chemicals, known as the 'GHS'. Although the CLP Regulation will be directly acting on Member States, without the need for transposition, the proposed amendments will allow CHIP to be aligned with the transitional period of the CLP Regulation and to ensure that the provisions of the CLP Regulation can be enforced in Great Britain, both throughout the transitional period and beyond.
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