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News Release from: Health and Safety Laboratory
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 May 2005
New laboratory headquarters opens
The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) has investigated the causes of some of the UK's most serious incidents, including the Kings Cross fire.
The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) has investigated the causes of some of the UK's most serious incidents, including the Kings Cross fire, the collapse of the Port of Ramsgate pedestrian walkway and the Avonmouth Bridge platform, and the Ladbroke Grove rail crash HSL has carried out groundbreaking research to solve a wide range of health and safety problems
To give just a few examples: flash fires, kidney damage in workers exposed to solvents, the design of fairground rides, fatigue in shiftworkers and team lifting to prevent back injuries.
Some of HSL's experimental facilities are unique in the UK.
And its capability for large and small-scale experiments in the areas of engineering, fire, explosion and process hazards is second to none.
This month HSL will celebrate the official opening of its new £56m headquarters in Buxton, Derbyshire.
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