Health & Safety
Improving health, safety and environment management
BRPPA assists, advises and informs members:
- BRPPA represents members’ interests on health and safety issues
- BRPPA regularly issues HS&E bulletins on developments (as appropriate)
- BRPPA provides specific advice to members by telephone, letters and site visits
- BRPPA is involved in establishing a safety culture benchmarking exercise for accident prevention
- BRPPA together with RAPRA Technology Ltd has issued a revised code of practice for polyurethane elastomer manufacturing
- BRPPA organises HS&E seminars/workshops, when of interest to members
BRPPA participates actively at meetings of:
- HSE’s Tyre and Rubber Industy Safety Action Group (TRISAG)
- BSI Rubber Machinery Standards Committee.
BRPPA also:
- Organises working parties as topics arise e.g. accident prevention
- Collects statistics as a basis for assessing potential for improvements in employees’ safety
- Oversees further work under BRPPA’s Health Research Project
- Assists and advises in relation to legal claims.
Environment
BRPPA acts for members on a vast range of environmental issues. BRPPA advises members on environmental aspects, for example:
- European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive
- VOC Directive
- BRPPA works with Government on implementation of relevant EU Directives in UK
- BRPPA assists members in awareness of new waste management requirements
