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The 2023 edition of the ADR will have some significant amendments, many of which will have an impact on the fuel industry and the inspection bodies that provide a service to the industry. However, this sector has a long transition period to adapt (10 years). Note that the amendments adopted by the UN Joint Meeting over the biennium were submitted to the Working Party on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (WP.15) on 18 February 2022 (ECE/TRANS/WP.15/256), for Read more…

Summer 2022 Welcome to our Summer Chemicals E-Bulletin. With this edition, we provide you with relevant regulatory updates both from the HSA and the EU. Click here to read more…

This programme of work, the third prepared under the Health and Safety Authority’s Strategy 2016–2018, has been developed to contribute to our long-term vision of healthy, safe and productive lives.   Source: HSA Ireland Year : 2018 Download:

Infectious substances in Category B are assigned to UN 3373, proper shipping name “BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCE, CATEGORY B”, and must be packaged for carriage by road in accordance with ADR Packing Instruction P650. The system for packaging UN 3373 is a three layer system, of which either the secondary packaging or the outer packaging must be rigid Primary receptacle Secondary packaging Outer packaging It is the responsibility of the consignor of infectious substances assigned to UN3373 Read more…

3 Jan 2018 The Health and Safety Authority has today released figures for the number of work related fatal accidents reported during 2017. There were 47 fatal accidents last year compared to 46 in 2016. Some of the key fatality statistics are: There were 24 deaths in agriculture, making it the eighth year in a row that this sector recorded the highest number of work related fatalities. The construction and transport sectors had the next highest number Read more…