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Have your say in drafting the new HSE Event Safety (PURPLE) Guide
January 22nd, 2010 | 
Author: 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.
Register now
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
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Classification Workshop
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
VOSA
Security of Explosives in Transport Aide Memoire for VOSA and HSE Inspectors for HSE Licensed Explosive Sites
EIG AGM 2008
The following PowerPoint presentations were giving at the EIG AGM 2008 held on the 9th December 2008
Click on the title to download
Legislative Review
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Section 5 situation report – Robin Evelegh – EIG
A Guide to Fire Resistance Standards For Explosives Vehicles
This guide has been prepared to provide practical guidance for users, operators or manufacturers of vehicles for the road transport of explosives. It will assist them to meet the requirements of the Road Traffic (Carriage of Explosives] Regulations, 1989 (CER) and its Approved Code of Practice (ACOP). The guide extends to the requirements for fire resistance of vehicles needed to meet the regulations for the international transport of goods by road, ADR (The European Agreement on the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Roadl.
The guide has been prepared by a working party of the Health & Safety Executive and the Explosives Industry Group of the Confederation of British Industry. It reminds users of the requirements of the regulations and details test regimes and criteria which can be applied to load comportment designs to establish conformance with the regulations. For some applications, such as ISO containers, specific advice on a design which can be used is given. When users wish to use load containers designed in accordance with this guide for roil, air or sea applications, the appropriate regulations will need to be checked to verify that any container also complies with those regulations.
This guide is based on current regulations:
Road Traffic (Carriage of Explosivesl Regulations, 1989.
Approved Code of Practice for CER, published 1989.
ADR, Edition doted 1990.
The CBI does not accept any responsibility for the actions of users, operators or manufacturers in pursuance of this guide; they remain responsible for ensuring that vehicles meet appropriote standards for fire resistance.
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