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Series
Health and Safety Executive: Safety Policy Division: Registered Files (SPA, SPB,...
Catalogue reference: EF 17
What's it about?
EF 17
This series contains registered files of the Health and Safety Executive's Safety Policy Division (SPD). Since its formation SPD has had responsibility for the formulation of policy and legislation and amendment of existing regulations on...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- EF 17
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Title (The name of the record)
- Health and Safety Executive: Safety Policy Division: Registered Files (SPA, SPB, SPD, SG series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1969-2001
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Health and Safety Executive's Safety Policy Division (SPD). Since its formation SPD has had responsibility for the formulation of policy and legislation and amendment of existing regulations on fundamental and strategic health and safety issues including: mechanical, engineering, marine, construction, mines, general technical, radiation and noise, special industries, transportation, explosives, railways, transport of dangerous substances, nuclear and hazardous installations, flammables and gases, channel tunnel safety, chemicals.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- SPA, SPB, SPD, SG
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Executive, 1975-1975
- Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Executive, Safety and General Group, 1975-1977
- Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Executive, Safety Policy Division, 1977-1983
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 54 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2007 Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Executive
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Welfare
- Manufacturing
- Railways
- Weapons
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Selected under the acquisition policy criteria 2.1.5 documenting the development of Health and Safety Policy
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Safety Policy Division was set up when the Health and Safety Commission and the Health and Safety Executive was established by the Health and Safety at Work etc Act of 1974. It was originally named the Safety and General Group and changed to the Safety Policy Division in the late 1970s. Between 1983 and 1989, Information and Advisory Services joined the Division and it was named Safety Policy and Information. In 1998 the Division became the Safety Policy Directorate.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16425/
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Health and Safety Executive: Safety Policy Division: Registered Files (SPA, SPB, SPD, SG series)
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