This section of our website contains links to external websites and documents which provide information for building occupiers and others with a duty of care surrounding issues of air and water quality.
- Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
- Link to the full act via the HSE website
- Workplace health & safety a short guide for managers
- HSE short guide on controlling substances hazardous to health
- ACoP L5: COSHH 2002
- HSE Code of Practice for controlling substances hazardous to health
- A Guide to COSHH
- HSE short guide to COSHH 2002 regulations on working with substances hazardous to health
- Workplace (health, safety & welfare) regulations 1992
- Full document available for download at the HSE website
- Radon in the workplace
- An overview to risks from the HSE
- AcoP L121
- Code of Practice from the HSE on working with ionising Radon
- CO² and sick leave
- An overview of a study conducted into the relationship between CO2 concentrations and sick leave
- Legal Requirements, Guidelines and Green Air Monitoring Services
- Overview of Legal Requirements, Guidelines, Standard Specification and Green Air Monitoring Services
- INDG 409
- “Time to clear the air!” provides a worker’s pocket guide to local exhaust ventilation.
- INDG 408
- A simple guide from the HSE to buying and using LEV systems
- INDG429
- An HSE guide for bakers' on the dangers of flour dust
- HSE Wood Dust
- HSE guidance on wood dust
- HSG 272
- An HSE guide on using nanomaterials at work
- HSG 258
- CIBSE guidance on controlling airborne contaminants at work
- ACoP L8
- Legionnaires' disease: A guide to controlling Legionella in water systems
- Sick Building Syndrome
- Link to a guide from HSE on how to deal with Sick Building Syndrome
