HSE SRO :: Archived Articles

Archived Articles

HSE Research Projects Directory Goes On-Line

Review of Methods for Determining Redundancy in Dynamic Positioning

Twenty Years of Offshore Safety Research: An Overview

Vessel Impact Resistance - A Practical Resource

Yo-Yo Diving and the Risk of Decompression Illness

Review of Low Cycle Fatigue Resistance

Offshore Maintenance System Assessment Guidance

Design and Integrity Management of Mobile Installation Moorings

Introducing HSE’s Science & Research ‘Outlook’

The Effects of Dynamic Loading on Structural Integrity Assessments

Analysis and Design of Profiled Blast Walls

Controlling the Motions of Offshore Crane Loads

Excursion Tables in Saturation Diving

Improving Designs of Fairground Rides

Release of Chloramines from Swimming Pools & Processing of Salad Vegetables

Health, Safety & Legal Issues Related to Body Piercing, Tattooing & Scarification

Health & Safety of Homeworkers

The Development of Case Studies to Demonstrate the Link Between Effective Management of Health and Safety and Shareholder/Business Benefit

Now we’re cooking with gas (well hydrogen, actually!)

The 5S Technique - A Risk Management Perspective

Nanotechnologies – A short way into the technology to dwarf all others

HSE Offshore Health and Safety Strategy to 2010

Draft HSC Science Strategy published for consultation

International Offshore Petroleum Safety Research Website Launched

Safety and Performance Enhancement in Drilling Operations by Human Factors Intervention (SPEDOHFI)

Mapping the Health and Safety Standards in the UK Waste Industry

British Occupational Health Research Foundation: Evidence based guidelines for the prevention, identification and management of occupational asthma

Techniques for Evaluating the Response of Offshore Structures to Extreme Weather

Health & Safety Issues in Call Centres

Work-related Violence: Taxi Drivers

Asbestos in Bulk Materials

Effects of Fire on Containers Storing Fireworks

Detonation Resistance of Ammonium Nitrate

Diver Performance Under Increased Atmospheric Pressures

Unique Tool for Measuring Trends in Risk Levels on the Norwegian Shelf

Tsunami risk in the North-East Atlantic

Foundation Integrity Guidelines for Jack-Up Drilling Rigs

Preventing Stress Corrosion Cracking in Duplex Stainless Steel

Inspection of Small Bore Connectors using Radiography

Wave Impact on Offshore Installations

Safe Use of Elastomers in Fluid Containment Offshore

Acoustic Monitoring of Offshore Structures

A Staged Approach to reducing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the workplace

Local Authorities and HSE Working Together: Science and Technology Initiative

Promoting health and safety as a key goal of the corporate social responsibility agenda

Safe Sites - Driver Perceptions

Risk Education in Engineering - The development of a new syllabus

Trojan Horse Messages for Construction Site Operatives

Making an impact on Small and Medium sized Enterprises’ [SME] compliance behaviour: An evaluation of the effect of interventions on compliance with health and safety legislation.

Health and Safety Commissioners (HSC) Science Strategy 2005 – 2008: Gathering Evidence; Developing Understanding; Identifying Solutions

Use and Operation of Daughter Craft in Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration

Trends in Shuttle Tanker Collision Incidents 1998 – 2004

Workforce Supply Chain Issues for Offshore Accidents

Improving the Safety of Weather-Sensitive Offshore Activities

Technologies and Techniques for Characterising Offshore Development Sites

Breathing Performance of 'Octopus' Demand Diving Regulator Systems

Farmers, Farm Workers and Work-Related Stress

Wild Rabbits as Potential Carriers of E.COLI VTEC

The role and effectiveness of safety representatives in influencing workplace health and safety

ELVIS IS STILL IN THE BUILDING ELVis - Exposure Level Visualisation – a tool for understanding, controlling and communicating exposure risks from chemical and physical agents

Stability of Floating Offshore Installations

Improving Standards of Offshore Rescue and Recovery

Designing Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessels against extreme Metocean Conditions

Updated Accident Statistics for Fixed and Floating Offshore Units on the UKCS

Fire and Explosion Protection for Offshore Piping Systems

Effective management of upper limb disorders by general practitioners and trainee occupational physicians

Exploding the Myths on Ageing

Dehydration in the Workplace

A workplace survey on the control of task specific exposures to carcinogens, mutagens, and reprotoxins in the UK chemical industry

Information to Accompany Patients Undergoing Nuclear Medicine Procedures

High Pressure High Temperature Reservoir Developments Offshore

Exploring the Influences of Farming Women and Families on Worker Health and Safety

Evidence base for Identifying Potential Failures in the Specification, Use and Maintenance of Protective Personal Equipment [PPE]

Investigation of the possible long term health effects of diving at work

The Design, Materials and Connections for Blast- Loaded Structures

Aircraft Turnround: The Impact of HSG209 and Emerging Good Practice

Efficacy of Gloves used in Printing

Performance of Diving Equipment

Testing and Standards for Rock Reinforcement Consumables

The Role Of Molecular Epidemiology In Occupational Health – Help Or Hindrance? Imperial College London December 8th 2005

Offshore Gas Turbines Integrity and Inspection Guidance Notes

Launch and Recovery of Fast Rescue Craft by Offshore Installation Crane

Moisture Levels in Compressed Breathing Air

Violence and Aggression in Management Training for Trainers and Managers

Operator Roll-Over Protection on Small Vehicles

Axial Fatigue Tests on Offshore Container Slings and Chains

Improved Simplified Response Methods to Blast Loading

Health and Safety Responsibilities of Company Directors and Management Board Members : 2001, 2003, and 2005 Surveys

A Methodology to prioritise substances for possible further development of Acute Exposure Threshhold Levels (AETLs)

New Guidance on Managing Shift Work

The Development of a Fatigue / Risk Index for Shiftworkers

Low risk of exposure from Asbestos containing textured coatings

HSE Lands its New Chief Scientist

Improving the integrity of floating production systems moorings

Ringing of Concrete Gravity Based Offshore Structures

Detecting shallow geohazards

Seal damage in the Oil and Gas Industry

Soft Ground Tunnelling

Noise exposure at open air concerts

Surveying sickness absence

Vehicle paint sprayers at risk

Is hydrogen fuel the Answer?

Using Mass Media Interventions

Selection of recently completed HSE research projects

Trojan Horse delivers key health & safety messages

Offshore Collisions - 'An Overview'

Offshore Manual Handling Incidents Database

Looking To The Future

Stress In The Construction Industry

Early Warning Detection Systems

Avian Flu - 'On a wing and a prayer'

Hazards In Workplace Transport

Research Projects Directory

Migrant Workers - 'Health and Safety Risks'

'How we measure up' - The OSI Science Review

Horizon Scanning - 'What's Coming'

Valuation of health and safety benefits: Dread risks

Cascading messages through others

Conveyor Belt Safety Protection from Danger Zones

Workplace exposure to formaldehyde

'SCUBA diving with an Octopus'

Structural Safety

Fairground Rides a Design Review

Launch of a ‘Fire & Blast Technical Directory’ on FABIG website

Research Projects Directory

HSE Signs up with SCI for another 3 years!

Falls in the Classroom

Respiratory protection against bioaerosols

Cancers and the fire service

Passenger Behaviour on Amusement Rides

Managing collision risk offshore

Occupational Health in the Construction Industry

Working Safely – An Ergonomic Process for MSD Prevention

Ill health symptoms associated with display screen equipment

Involving Workers

Measurement of acoustic spectra from liquid leaks

Research Projects Directory

Lifeboat Performance Standards

Household Waste and Recyclables

Nanoparticles – Best Practice

Loading Docks: Safety First - Tools to make safety management easier

Emotionally Demanding Occupations

Whole-Body Vibration and Ergonomics Toolkit

Noise Emission Data for Hand-held Concrete Breakers

Irritancy and Sensitisation

Working with the Future

This article lists a selection of recently completed HSE research projects, with links to full details on the Research Project Directory (RPD).