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Enabling a better working world The Health and Safety Laboratory Enabling a better working world An agency of the Health & Safety Executive An agency of the Health & Safety Executive HSL: The Context HSL:HSEs Best Kept Secret HSL:

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An agency of the Health & Safety Executive

Enabling a better working world

An agency of the Health & Safety Executive

Enabling a better working world

The Health and Safety Laboratory

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An agency of the Health & Safety Executive

Enabling a better working world

HSL:HSE’s Best Kept Secret

HSL: The Context

HSL: An Agency of the HSE since 1995

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An agency of the Health & Safety Executive

Enabling a better working world

The UK’s Health & Safety Laboratory A National Asset

Our History

1911 – Establishment of coal mine explosion experimental station 1974 – Health & Safety at Work Act 1995 – Agency of HSE with remit to compete commercially for external business

Over a hundred year history

f health & safety research

and incident investigation

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An agency of the Health & Safety Executive

Enabling a better working world

550 acre remote site in Buxton, Derbyshire Widest science base

f any equivalent

European lab No other regulator in the world has anything similar 390 staff (scientists, engineers, etc)

>1,000 customers per

year

The UK’s Health & Safety Laboratory A National Asset

Facts & Figures

Our History

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An agency of the Health & Safety Executive

Enabling a better working world

Our Specialists : Depth and Breadth

Looking after People, Plant & Processes

Enabling a better working world

Keeping People Healthy Looking after the Interface Keeping Plant Running Medical Doctors Psychologists Explosives Engineers Toxicologists Ergonomists Fire Engineers Occupational Hygienists PPE experts Process Safety Engineers Microbiologists etc. etc. Mathematicians etc. etc. Material Scientists etc. etc.

Facilitating Multidisciplinary Solutions to Complex Health and Safety Problems…..

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An agency of the Health & Safety Executive

Enabling a better working world

HSL – Customers

Enabling a better working world

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An agency of the Health & Safety Executive

Enabling a better working world

Our Cross‐Industry Experience: Sharing Good Practice

Cross- Industry Experience

Aerospace Transport Oil & Gas Process Industries Nuclear Power Technologies

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An agency of the Health & Safety Executive

Enabling a better working world

Our Research & Testing Facilities

Fire & Explosion

– Burn Hall – Blast Ranges – Explosives Test Pads – Jet Fire – Pool Fire – Tunnels/Fire Galleries

Engineering Safety

– Drop Towers – Impact Track – Engineering Test Lab

Personal Safety

– Anechoic chamber – Thermal test chamber – Biomechanics lab – Cat 3 microbiological lab – Wind tunnel

Support Facilities