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Catalogue description Health and Safety Executive: Safety Policy Division: Registered Files (SPA, SPB, SPD, SG series)
| Reference: | EF 17 |
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| Title: | Health and Safety Executive: Safety Policy Division: Registered Files (SPA, SPB, SPD, SG series) |
| Description: |
This series contains registered files of the Health and Safety Executive's Safety Policy Division (SPD). Since its formation SPD has had responsibility for the formulation of policy and legislation and amendment of existing regulations on fundamental and strategic health and safety issues including: mechanical, engineering, marine, construction, mines, general technical, radiation and noise, special industries, transportation, explosives, railways, transport of dangerous substances, nuclear and hazardous installations, flammables and gases, channel tunnel safety, chemicals. |
| Date: | 1969-1993 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | SPA, SPB, SPD, SG |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Executive, Safety and General Group, 1975-1977 Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Executive, Safety Policy Division, 1977-1983 |
| Physical description: | 41 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2007 Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Executive |
| Selection and destruction information: | Selected under the acquisition policy criteria 2.1.5 documenting the development of Health and Safety Policy |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Safety Policy Division was set up when the Health and Safety Commission and the Health and Safety Executive was established by the Health and Safety at Work etc Act of 1974. It was originally named the Safety and General Group and changed to the Safety Policy Division in the late 1970s. Between 1983 and 1989, Information and Advisory Services joined the Division and it was named Safety Policy and Information. In 1998 the Division became the Safety Policy Directorate. |
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