Safety Report Assessment Guide: Explosives

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Introduction

This document describes how the Competent Authority's Assessors evaluate safety reports for compliance with the predictive criteria of COMAH.  This Safety Report Assessment guide should be read in conjunction with the SRAM and it should be noted that the current document supplements rather than supplants the SRAM.
Assessors must be fully familiar with the following:

  • HSE's enforcement policy
  • COMAH Remodelling Policy and when this applies
  • The COMAH Training Manual
  • The contents of the HID Safety Report Assessment Manual (SRAM), particularly the guiding principles, and the procedures for handling and assessing safety reports.

This document only covers evaluation of explosives hazards; it does not cover evaluation of other types of hazard that may be present at explosives site, e.g. non-explosives thermal hazards (solvent fires) or toxic hazards.  Other types of hazards are covered in other Safety Report Assessment Guides.

Safety Report Assessment Guide: Explosives (PDF) [17]

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  1. COMAHhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/index.htm
  2. Overview - Backgroundhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/background/index.htm
  3. Seveso IIIhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/seveso/index.htm
  4. COMAH Regulations 2015https://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/background/comah15.htm
  5. Cost recovery in detailhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/charging/index.htm
  6. The COMAH Competent Authorityhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/authorityindex.htm
  7. Guidancehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/guidance.htm
  8. Competent authority guidance and key internal CA procedureshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/ca-guides.htm
  9. Notificationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/notification/index.htm
  10. Submitting public informationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/submitting-public-information.htm
  11. Establishments subject to COMAH 2015https://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/comah-establishments.htm
  12. Emergency plan testing during coronavirushttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/external-emergency-plan-tests-during-coronavirus.htm
  13. Resourceshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/resources.htm
  14. Safety alertshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/alerts/index.htm
  15. Investigation reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/investigation-reports.htm
  16. Complete a short surveyhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3YY388L
  17. Safety Report Assessment Guide: Explosiveshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/assets/docs/srag-explosives.pdf
  18. COMAH: Notification formhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/assets/docs/comah-notification-form.xlsx
  19. A guide to the COMAH regulations 2015 (L111) https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/l111.htm
  20. Leadership for the major hazard industrieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg277.htm
  21. Better alarm handlinghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/chis6.pdf
  22. Chemicalshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/chemicals/index.htm
  23. Nuclearhttp://www.onr.org.uk/
  24. Managing human factorshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/index.htm
  25. Safety bulletinshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/safetybulletins/index.htm
  26. Seveso III Directive https://www.hse.gov.uk/seveso/index.htm

Glossary of abbreviations/acronyms on this page

COMAH
Control of major accident hazards

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2020-07-31