Health and safety research 1975 : an account of the executive's research testing and laboratory services incorporating the annual report of the Safety in Mines Research Establishment.

  • Great Britain. Health and Safety Executive.
Date:
1976
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Credit: Health and safety research 1975 : an account of the executive's research testing and laboratory services incorporating the annual report of the Safety in Mines Research Establishment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Research and Laboratory Services Division (RLSD) of the Health and Safety Executive was formed shortly after the Executive came into being at the beginning of 1975. One of the urgent tasks facing RLSD was to integrate the various parts of the Executive concerned with research and development, the provision of scien- tific support for the Executive, and the testing of certain types of apparatus for use in industry. The activities of RLSD had also to be co-ordinated with the extramural contracts placed by Inspectorates and the Employment Medical Advisory Service. Good progress has been made in this work but we are very conscious of the fact that much remains to be done. In particular, the coverage of our work is uneven and attention has to be paid to the task of setting up programmes that will adequately cover the needs of the industries, Inspectorates and others whom we serve. This Report is concerned with showing both the stage we have reached and giving an account of the work carried out during the year. Sonal Ley B P MULLINS Director, Research and Laboratory Services Division and Head of the Safety in Mines Research Establishment The first section of this Report outlines the present structure and commitments of RLSD. The main body of the Report deals with RLSD’s intramural work, subject by subject. Since the Safety in Mines Research Estab- . lishment is the main research and testing establishment to be incorporated into RLSD, and since SMRE’s work for the mining industry is being continued within RLSD, this part of the Report is linked very firmly to the long series of Annual Reports on mine-safety research published for the years 1921 to 1974. Near the end of the present Report there is some account of the extra- mural research sponsored by the Executive. Health and safety research, and the allied fields of testing and the provision of laboratory services, are very far from being the prerogatives of RLSD, and it is fitting that I should end this Foreword by paying tribute to the many other organisations and individuals, both in this country and abroad, who are striving in ways similar to ourselves to make industry healthier and safer. We are gratefully aware of their contributions.