| Title | Short Description | Source | Date |
| MPA Health and Safety Awards - Special bulletin | Please find attached a special MPA Health and Safety Bulletin that is a celebration of the recent MPA Health and Safety Awards 2024.
The bulletin includes direct links to the videos of the winning entries, tabulated to assist in reviewing.
It may be that one or more of these videos could provide a useful way of introducing a discussion around a particular activity or hazard as part of a safety discussion /toolbox talk you might be planning in the New Year.
The real benefit from the MPA Health and Safety Awards is achieved by ensuring that the ideas and innovations featured are shared as widely as possible across the mineral products industry. By learning about both the good practices and incidents / HiPos experienced by others we can adapt are own operations to make them safer for all, we are all Safer by Sharing.
Please take the opportunity to review this bulletin and share it with others as appropriate.
| MPA | 30/12/2024 |
| HSE issues LPG Forklift Fires Briefing Report | LPG Forklift Fires Briefing Report
A report of the findings of an HSE investigation into a series of LPG forklift truck fires that occurred in GB in 2022-4.
Follow link to report - HSE Briefing
Contaminated LPG from one refinery has been gumming up the vaporiser units on fork lift trucks. If the operator continues to turn the engine in an attempt to start it, there is a build-up of unburnt fuel which could eventually cause a fire/explosion.
| HSE | 30/12/2024 |
| Product Safety Alert - Italmecc Air Box 2100 Water Backed Booth | Italmecc Air Box 2100 Water Backed Booth LEV System. Product Safety Report:
Follow link to notice - Italmecc Air Box 2100 (2412-0024) - GOV.UK
Below is a summary but please see the notice for full details -
Hazard:
The product presents a high risk to health as it is not supplied with adequate instructions for installation, specifically, the requirement for ducting extracted air to outside. This is of particular concern when used to control dust generated by processing materials containing respirable crystalline silica (RCS).
Corrective action:
Italmecc S.R.L. have stopped supply in GB until the machine instructions are updated and brought into compliance. Users of these machines should ensure that they are ducted to outside when used to control exposure to substances hazardous to health, or use other equally effective measures.
| | 30/12/2024 |
| Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) | Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) – Action Required to meet 31st December 2025 Deadline
You can find more information by visiting the Guidance published by the Environment Agency and last updated in December 2022 – PCBs registration, disposal, labelling
The pdf, which can be downloaded by clicking on the title at the start of this Hot Topic, is an example of one company's briefing on its approach to the review and disposal of equipment containing Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs).
It provides background information on PCBs, identifies the type of electrical equipment where they are likely to be present and outlines an action plan and internal process to meet the deadline of 31st December 2025 for their disposal.
| MPA | 12/12/2024 |
| TRANSPORT - Fatal 2,5 and 6 - Preventing runaways - 'Safe Stop' | 'Safe Stop'
Six separate ‘runaway incidents’ in 2024 highlight the importance of drivers ensuring that they follow “Safe Stop” procedures to prevent fatalities, serious injury and damage to property.
Tragically, one of these incidents did result in a fatality, any of the other incidents had the potential to have a similar outcome.
MPA urges members to ensure 'Safe Stop' procedures are in place for all employee and contract drivers, appropriate checks and training is in place. See pdf for more information
| MPA | 29/08/2024 |