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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 31228 |
| CIS number |
79-887 |
| ISBN(s) |
0-11-883222-0 |
| Year |
1978 |
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| Title |
Health and safety - Manufacturing and service industries 1977. |
| Bibliographic information |
Health and Safety Executive, London. H.M. Stationery Office, P.O. Box 569, London SE1 9NH, United Kingdom, 1978. 84p. Illus. 9 ref. Price: £2.75. |
| Abstract |
The total number of accidents reported in 1977 in all industries covered by the Factories Act was 244,436, with 357 fatalities, a record low total for this century (382 in 1976, 427 in 1975). Contents of the report: statistical tables; impact of safety policies and their implementation (joint management/worker initiatives, safety representatives, etc.); major incidents and incidents attracting publicity (hazards from gases; transport of hazardous materials; asbestos); plant and process hazards (flammable liquids, dusts, solids, gases, exothermic reactions, welding and cutting of plant, tanks and vessels); mechanical and electrical hazards (machine safety, glass-bottle manufacturing accidents); occupational hygiene (microbiological hazards, major hazard appraisal, textile dyestripping, carcinogenic substances survey, new developments in respirator design); national industry groups (health service, research establishments, rubber, paper and board, printing, docks, construction industry, food industry, plastics, footwear, leather, engineering, foundries, steelmaking, wire, rope, and cable-making, chemical industry, shipbuilding and ship-repairing, brewing, distilling, drink industries). The report of HM Explosives Inspectorate is appended. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
United Kingdom; explosives industry; labour inspection |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
compressed gases; safety officers; occupational accidents; report; acetylene; asbestos; flammable substances; oxidizing substances; labour-management relations; transport of materials; statistics; unsafe practices; electrical accidents; mechanical hazards; legislation; enforcement; occupational hygiene |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Subject(s) |
Administration, legislation
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Labour inspection
Chemical industry
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