Safety Notice – Supply of flail-type cutting attachments on portable hand-held brush cutters

Non-standard metal brush cutting accessories fitted to petrol driven brush cutters can fail catastrophically in-service. There is a risk of death or serious injury to operators and others in vicinity from ejected metal components. Suppliers of such equipment should immediately discontinue supply of flail-type cutting attachments for portable hand-held brush cutters.

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RR886 – Development of suitable safety performance indicators for level 4 bio-containment facilities: Phase 2

The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE’s) Hazardous Installations Directorate Biological Agents Unit (HID SI4) has developed a set of Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) in collaboration with organisations working in the high hazard biological agents contained use sector.

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