CRS
regularly updates our clients and contacts on new HSE legislation when
it is published – this time, on new laws governing explosives and
acetylene. HSE has worked with stakeholders since 2010 to review
existing health and safety related explosives legislation. One of the
key aims of that review was to consolidate, modernise, and, where
practicable, simplify the legislative arrangements.
Explosives Regulations 2014 (ER2014)
ER2014
consolidates and therefore revokes a number of explosives regulations.
It brings together the requirements of health and safety related
explosives legislation into a framework based around common topics such
as authorisation, safety, security and placing on the market. As a
result of the consolidation the Approved Code of Practice to the
Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 (L139) has been
withdrawn. Guidance relating to the security of explosives (HSE Circular
1/2005), and guidance on the placing of civil use explosives on the
market (L66) have also been withdrawn. Further information on the new
regulations is available
Acetylene Safety (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2014 (ASR 2014)
ASR2014
consolidates a range of legislative instruments including regulations
and orders into a single set of regulations. These regulations simplify
and where appropriate, modernise legislative arrangements for
compressed acetylene gas whilst maintaining pre-existing safety
standards. Further information on Acetylene is available
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