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Codes of Practice
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2025
Code of Practice: Safe Use of Industrial Trucks
This Code of Practice provides practical guidance on compliance with legislation related to the use of rider operated industrial trucks in all workplaces. It sets out the basic roles and responsibilities of those who have duties in relation to ensuring the safe operation of industrial trucks and the training of industrial truck operators. It provides a framework for managing industrial truck operations in a more holistic, safe, and sustainable way based on a Safe Systems Approach. It emphasises employers’ responsibilities to ensure their workplace are safe, their operators are competent and to provide adequate supervision.
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2024
Code of Practice for Managing Safety and Health in Forestry Operations
This updated Code of Practice was required due to many outdated references following various amendments to regulations since the Code’s original publication (2009). The updated Code of Practice has also deleted references to several UK Arboriculture and Forestry Advisory Group (AFAG) guidance documents as the Authority developed ten relevant guides on this topic. The Authority guides are now referenced within the revised Code. This Code of Practice came into operation on 01 May 2023 and from that date it revokes and replaces the previous Code of Practice for Managing Safety and Health in Forestry Operations which was published in 2009.
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2024
Chemical Agents Code of Practice 2024
2024 Code of Practice for the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Chemical Agents) Regulations (2001-2021) & the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Carcinogens, Mutagens and Reprotoxic Substances) Regulations (2024).
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2023
Cód Cleachtais maidir le Cáilíocht Aeir Laistigh
Cuireann an Cód Cleachtais seo treoir phraiticiúil ar fáil maidir le forálacha Rialacháin an Achta um Shábháilteacht, Sláinte agus Leas ag an Obair, (Feidhm Ghinearálta) 2007 (I.R. Uimh. 299 de 2007), arna leasú ag I.R. Uimh. 255 of 2023 a chomhlíonadh.
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2023
Code of Practice for Indoor Air Quality
The Code of Practice is implemented through S.I. No. 255/2023 - Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) (Amendment) Regulations 2023.
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2021
Code of Practice for Employers and Employees on the Prevention and Resolution of Bullying at Work
The purpose of the Code is to provide guidance for employers, employees and their representatives on good practice and procedures for identifying, preventing, addressing and resolving issues around workplace bullying.
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2020
Biological Agents Code of Practice 2020
This code of practice, in accordance with Regulation 3 (1) of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Biological Agents) Regulations 2013 and 2020, applies to activities in a place of work where existing or potential – whether deliberate or incidental – exposure to a biological agent has occurred or may occur.
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2020
Chemical Agents Code of Practice 2020
This Code of Practice is effective from January 17th 2020 and replaces the 2018 Code of Practice for the Chemical Agents Regulations. The 2020 Code of Practice has been re-structured to support both the Chemical Agents and Carcinogens Regulations, as amended. Schedule 1 now contains a list of all EU Commission derived occupational exposures limit values (OELVs) and includes new Binding OELVs from three recent amendments of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive. Schedule 2 contains a list of Advisory OELVs derived from non-EU sources. Schedule 3 lists intended changes, (including the 5th Indicative OELV list). Schedule 4 lists carcinogenic substances, mixtures and processes and Schedule 5 contains the CAS number index.
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2019
Code of Practice For Inland Diving and Inshore Diving
The aim of this code of practice is to provide practical guidance on the safe management of diving at work. It provides assistance on the observance of the requirements of the 2018 Diving Regulations 2018.
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2019
Code of Practice for Offshore Diving
The aim of this code of practice is to provide practical guidance on the safe management of diving at work. It provides assistance on the observance of the requirements of the 2018 Diving Regulations 2018.