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:HSE’s Best Kept Secret HSL: An Agency of the HSE since 1995 Enabling a better working world An agency of the Health & Safety Executive
Our History The UK’s Health & Safety Laboratory A National Asset Over a hundred year history of health & safety research and incident investigation 1995 – Agency of HSE with remit to compete commercially for 1974 – Health & external business Safety at Work Act 1911 – Establishment of coal mine explosion experimental station Enabling a better working world An agency of the Health & Safety Executive
Our History The UK’s Health & Safety Laboratory A National Asset Facts & Figures > 1,000 customers per year 390 staff (scientists, engineers, etc) No other regulator in the world has anything similar Widest science base of any equivalent European lab 550 acre remote site in Buxton, Derbyshire Enabling a better working world An agency of the Health & Safety Executive
Enabling a better working world Our Specialists : Depth and Breadth Looking after People, Plant & Processes 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….. Enabling a better working world An agency of the Health & Safety Executive
Enabling a better working world HSL – Customers Enabling a better working world An agency of the Health & Safety Executive
Cross- Industry Experience Our Cross ‐ Industry Experience: Sharing Good Practice Transport Aerospace Oil & Gas Nuclear Power Technologies Process Industries Enabling a better working world An agency of the Health & Safety Executive
Support Facilities 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 – Enabling a better working world An agency of the Health & Safety Executive
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