Catalogue description Health and Safety Commission: Circulated Papers and Memoranda

This series contains material, including circulars and memoranda, relating to the establishment of the Health and Safety Commission, its organisation, administration and procedures, and to its responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974. Included are papers on the reorganisation of the Factory Inspectorate.

Also present is material relating to the commission's policy on consultation and liaison with local authorities, its advisory services and committees, health and safety training, safety representatives and committees, research, the inspection of mines and mine regulations, safety in the offshore petroleum and gas industries, nuclear installations, and hazardous substances and their transport.

The series also contains files on the commission's responsibility for the Employment Medical Advisory Service and for appointments to the Mining Qualifications Board and the Safety in Mines Research Advisory Board, and evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.

From 1989 Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Executive

Key to abbreviations is available at the Public Record Office