Explosives Industry Group

Agreement has been reached between the Forum and the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) to rewrite the Event Safety Guide – better known as the Purple Guide.

While the new guide will not be as comprehensive as the original, focusing mainly on health and safety at events, the EIF is committed to plugging any gaps by producing a series of additional guidances and bringing all these together on one website as a ‘virtual’ guide to event organization.

Currently a Steering Group is being set up with the HSE to direct the project and Working Groups are being put together to draft the different sections. Although some changes may be made in the structure of the new Guide, it is anticipated that this will be much the same as the previous Purple Guide.

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The intention is that the process of rewriting the Guide should be as transparent as possible. In order to achieve this progress reports and drafts of each chapter will be available for comment via the EIF website.  Alerts will also be sent out to those registering an interest whenever changes are made to a section.

It is, therefore, important that you register your interests as soon as possible.

To register simply go to:  http://www.eventsindustryforum.co.uk/purple_guide/form.shtml

The presentations from the workshop are available below

Martin Guest – Introduction
Neil Morton – Why Classification?
Tom Smith – Industry perspective
Michael Marriott – UN Firework Classification process
Allen Webb – Classification – The What, the When and the How
Martyn Sime – Classification Application Form
Martyn Sime – Know your Fireworks
Neil Morton – Questions

It is hoped that the sample drawings will be made available shortly.

Please click here to download an invitation to the HSE classification workshop to be held at Centrepoint, London on 29th January 2009 – starting at 10.30.

The workshop is primarily intended for firework importers and manufacturers who classify using the "default" – but may also be of interest to others in the pyrotechnics area.

Tom Smith
Chairman Pyro Group EIG

Security of Explosives in Transport Aide Memoire for VOSA and HSE Inspectors for HSE Licensed Explosive Sites

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The following PowerPoint presentations were giving at the EIG AGM 2008 held on the 9th December 2008

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Legislative Review

• COMAH Remodelling exercise – Sarah Shore (HSE)
• COMAH charges 2009 –Tom Smith
• Revision of DG regulations 2009 – Caroline Billingham – DfT
• Explosives Transport Security – Caroline Wood – DfT
• Section 5 situation report – Robin Evelegh – EIG
• EU Pyrotechnics Directive – WG1/WG5 - Martin Guest
• EU Pyrotechnics Directive – WG2 – Tom Smith
• Classification of Fireworks – Martin Guest