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Lightning may strike structures or objects and cause a collapse or start a fire. Personnel working in exposed or unsheltered locations may be at risk of lightning strike during thunderstorms. Working...

Operations

Current and forecast weather conditions should be monitored for any positive or negative impacts on operational activity, and any risks to the health and safety of members of the public, personnel...

Operations

TRAINING SPECIFICATION Knowledge and understanding Control measure element Learning outcome ...

Training – Operations

Knowledge and understanding Hazard Learning outcome Lightning Understand all associated hazard...

Training – Operations

This control measure should be read in conjunction with the National Grid publication, Guidance for UK Fire and Rescue Services for dealing with incidents on or near National Grid high voltage...

Utilities and fuel

​Radioactivity has a number of uses in society; these may be summarised in an approximate order of severity of hazard: Weapons Image 109 Vanguard class submarine carrying trident nuclear...

Foundation for hazardous materials

The need for personnel to work at height falls broadly into two categories: Unintentional work at height, where personnel are attending an incident and have to deal with the potential to...

Height, structures and confined spaces

This hazard should be read in conjunction with Weather conditions   The UK weather system is mainly dictated by westerly winds that bring low pressure weather systems that often lead to...

Geophysical hazards

​ In physics, matter can be defined as any substance that has mass and takes up space. A state of matter is one of the distinct forms that matter takes on. Four states of matter are observable...

Foundation for hazardous materials

Description These are devices that are attached to a building for the purpose of receiving broadcast signals. General considerations TV aerials are usually found either in the roof space of a...

Fires in buildings – Building supplementary information sheets