Control of Lead at Work Regulations 2002. Approved code of practice and guidance.

Overview

Excessive exposure to lead has long been recognised as a potential health hazard. This book gives guidance on how you can safely manage the risks from lead in the workplace. This guidance together with the Approved Code of Practice in this publication, supports the provisions of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 2002. The book is aimed at managers, supervisory staff, safety representatives and anybody with a responsibility to control exposure to lead at work. Contents: Notice of approval; Preface; Introduction; Summary of changes to the Regulations; Summary of changes to the ACOP; Citation and commencement; Interpretation; Duties under these Regulations; Prohibitions; Assessment of health risks created by work involving exposure to lead; Eating drinking and smoking; Maintenance, examination and testing of control measures; Air monitoring; Medical surveillance; Information, Instruction and training; Arrangements to deal with accidents, incidents and emergencies; Exemption certificates; Extension outside Great Britain; Revocations and savings; Activities in which the employment of young persons and women is prohibited; Legislation concerned with the labelling of containers and pipes; Leadless glaze and the definition of low-solubility inorganic lead compound; Technical specifications of the equipment to be used for air monitoring; calculation of 8-hour time-weighted avaerages; Methods of measuring blood-lead and urinary lead concentrations and other biological indicators; Guidance notes for appointed doctors; Recorded details of an employee under medical surveillance because of exposure to lead; References.