Product Description
Explosives Regulations 2014 came into force on 1 October 2014, and the Approved Code of Practice to the Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 (L139) was withdrawn.
About this guidance
This publication is for anyone who has duties under the safety provisions of the Explosives Regulations 2014, particularly employers, private individuals and other people manufacturing explosives, storing larger quantities of explosives or storing explosives that present higher hazards.
It provides overarching guidance on how the safety provisions of the Regulations should be met. It is supported by subsector guidance published elsewhere. You should use the relevant subsector guidance to support and supplement this guidance.
L150 Safety provisions should be read alongside L151 Security Provision.
What has changed?
- Merging registrations into the licensing system
- Allowing local authorities to issues licences up to 5 years, aligning them with equivalent HSE/police-issued licences
- Extending licensing to address storage of ammonium nitrate blasting intermediate (ANBI)
- Exceptions for keeping desensitised explosives without a licence have been updated
- The restructuring of tables of separation distances to allow for sites with more than one store. The tables have also been revised to cover quantities of explosives greater than 2000kg
- 5kg exception for keeping explosives without a licence limited to Hazard Type 3 and Hazard Type 4
- The repeal of the Fireworks Act 1951, as it has been superseded by the Pyrotechnic (Safety) Regulations 2010
Product Data
- ISBN:
- 9780717665518
- Author:
- HSE
- Publisher:
- HSE Books
- Pub Date:
- 2014
- Format:
- Paperback
- Ref No:
- L150
- Approx Wt:
- 0.25 kg
- HS Code:
- 490199