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Updated health surveillance guidance: respirable crystalline silica (RCS)

HSE has refreshed its guidance publication ‘Health surveillance for those exposed to respirable crystalline silica’. The publication: The updated publication: Health surveillance for those exposed to respirable crystalline silica (G404). Can be downloaded fr4om the HSE website What you are required to do Employers in industries such as construction, worktop manufacturing and installation, stone masonry, […]

UPDATE: REVISED HSE GUIDANCE ON EXPOSURE TO WELDING FUME

In February 2019 HSE issued a safety alert to inform industry of a change in relation to the control expectations for exposure to welding fume including that from mild steel welding. This followed new scientific evidence from the International Agency for Research on Cancer that exposure to mild steel welding fume can cause lung cancer […]