Hazards at Work - Plastics Industry

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The Health and Safety Executive has produced excellent leaflets on Health and Safety in Plastics Processing. These can be downloaded as Adobe Acrobat files by clicking on the relevant links.

Plastics Processing Sheet no. 1 : Fire and explosion risks from pentane in expandable polystyrene (EPS)

Plastics Processing Sheet no. 2 : Plastics recycling

Plastics Processing Sheet no. 3 : Managing machinery safety in small plastics factories

Plastics Processing Sheet no. 4 : Safety at injection moulding machines

Plastics Processing Sheet no. 5 : Safety at blow moulding machines

Plastics Processing Sheet no. 6 : Safety at thermoforming machines

Plastics Processing Sheet no. 7 : Safety at extruders with caterpillar, belt or roller haul-offs

Plastics Processing Sheet no. 8 : Safety at window frame manufacturing machines

Plastics Processing Sheet no. 9 : Safety at compression moulding machines

Plastics Processing Sheet no. 10 : Safety at granulators

Plastics Processing Sheet no.11: Safety at the winding zones of winding machines for plastic sheet and film

Plastics Processing Sheet no.12 : How to reduce your hand knife injuries

 

Last edited: 12/08/04

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