Health and Safety Executive
HSL is an agency of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and plays a pivotal role in supporting HSE's mission to ensure that risks to people's health and safety in the changing workplace are properly controlled.


  www.hse.gov.uk

UK Online
UK online is a website run by the Office of the e-Envoy which gives access to government information and services online.



  www.ukonline.gov.uk

World Health Organisation
HSL has recently been designated as a World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research. One area of HSL's work has been afforded collaborating status for a number of years, and this has now been extended to incorporate all of HSL's activities.

  www.who.int/en

Partnership for European Research in Occupational Safety and Health (PEROSH)
HSL is a founder member of PEROSH, a network of twelve occupational safety and health research institutes from across Europe. The partnership aims to strengthen collaboration by sharing research results and pooling expertise, to promote knowledge transfer between institites and beyond, and to strengthen the social dialogue in occupational health matters in Europe. PEROSH operates via 'scientific pillars'. The initial three pillars are: work organisation, risk perception and management and emerging issues.
  www.perosh.org

Quantification and Control of the Hazards Associated with the Transport and Bulk Storage of Fireworks (CHAF)
HSL is currently coordinating a European Union (EU) funded project, CHAF, which aims to provide a better understanding of critical conditions that give rise to explosions in packaged fireworks, and improved methods of predicting performance in large scale storage. The two other partners involved in the project are TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory, the Netherlands and Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und - prüfung, Germany.

  www.chaf.info

Healthy Work Matters Group
(formerly known as the Sheffield Occupational Health Development Group -SOHDG)
The Healthy Work Matters Group (formerly known as the Sheffield Occupational Health Development Group - SOHDG) is a partnership between the Sheffield Health Authority, local industries, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL), Primary Care Groups (GPs), Universities, the NHS and Trade Unions.

The aim of the group is to raise awareness about the effects of work on health, and the effects of health on fitness to work for:

• employees
• employers
• safety representatives
• health professionals

through network meetings, newsletters and the Healthy Work Matters website.

  www.healthyworkmatters.org.uk

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