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7 October 2005 - HSE Updated Firework
Display Guidance
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have once again produced
an updated guidance booklet, "Giving your own Firework Display", for
anyone who is organising a public firework display, such as Parent/Teacher
Associations, Sports Clubs and Councils.
The booklet contains advice on the following:
- Selection of a suitable site.
- How the site should be set up.
- Making available suitable facilities, such as, correct equipment for
extinguishing small fires and the provision of adequate numbers of stewards.
- List of contacts that organisers should consider liaising with before an
event.
- Information on crowd control.
- Storing fireworks safely prior to the display.
- Tips on building secure and safe bonfires.
- General information on handling fireworks during set up and firing.
The updated guidance reflects the changes to laws in the following areas:
- Supply - The Firework (Safety) Regulations & The firework (Safety)
(Amended) Regulations 2004.
- Possession - The Firework Regulations 2004.
- Transport - The Carriage of Dangerous Goods & Use of Transportable
Pressure Equipment Regulations 2004.
- Storage - The Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005.
- Use - The Firework Regulations 2004.
Further information on the safe storage and use of fireworks, including links
to a risk assessment tool designed to help people organise a display can be
accessed from the HSE website by clicking the following:
HSE
website: Fireworks
Further information on the above regulations plus guidance on the safe and
responsible use and sale of fireworks can be accessed from the Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI) website by clicking the following:
DTI Firework Safety
The HSE Guidance Booklet "Giving your own firework display: How to run and
fire it safely", HSG124, ISBN 0 7176 6162 8, price £7.95, can be purchased
from HSE Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2WA, Tel: 01787-881165 or
Fax: 01787-313995.
Article by Alexandra Johnston
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