The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2008 are set to come into force on the 6th April 2008 and will bring into place multiple changes to existing regulations. The regulations are mainly aimed at revisions to explosives regulations and will correct issues that have arisen since the new regulations on the manufacture and storage of explosives came into force, as well as reducing the administrative burden resulting from explosives legislation by extending the maximum periods of validity of explosives certificates and storage licences. The regulations will also revoke redundant and outdated local mining regulations currently applying to mines that are now abandoned or to systems at working mines that are no longer used or which can be covered by more modern consents. They also correct an omission in the Control of Noise at Work regulations.

Further information is available from:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/legislation/forthcoming.htm

and

http://www.hse.gov.uk/mining/legislat.htm

Source: www.hse.gov.uk  (accessed 05/03/08)

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