MoD Health & Safety Handbook 

JSP 375 Vol 2 

LEAFLET 5 ANNEX D 

MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES INC. LEAD & ASBESTOS 

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REQUIREMENTS FOR NOTIFICATIONS AND MARKINGS 

 1  Legislation 

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The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982 

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Substances to be notified  

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The Dangerous Substances (Notification and Marking of Sites) Regulations 1990 

 7  Exceptions 

Line managers' actions 

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Disclosure of information 

Appendix 

1  Schedule 1 to The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982 

REQUIREMENTS FOR NOTIFICATIONS AND MARKINGS 

LEGISLATION 

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Legislation covered in this Annex: 

1.1 

The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982 

1.2 

The Dangerous Substances (Notification and Marking of Sites) Regulations 1990 

THE NOTIFICATION OF INSTALLATIONS HANDLING HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES 

REGULATIONS 1982 

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The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982 (SI 1982/1357) 

apply to all sites, including MOD, Armed Forces and nuclear establishments, in Great Britain where 

there is any activity involving specified quantities of certain hazardous substances.  They also apply to 

pipelines connected to, and within 500m of, a site.  The requirements are entirely separate from the 

requirements of the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999 (COMAH), which do not apply 

to MOD, and from MOD's equivalent to COMAH, the Major Accident Control Regulations. 

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These Regulations prohibit any person from undertaking any activity which entails there being a 

notifiable quantity or more of a hazardous substance on any site unless that person has notified the 

Health and Safety Executive of the particulars specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to the Regulations at 

least 3 months before commencing that activity. With certain specified exceptions, similar notification of 

the particulars specified in Part II of Schedule 2 is required for any pipeline which contains a notifiable 

quantity or more of a hazardous substance. 

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Notification is also required of any changes in an activity previously notified which affects the 

particulars previously notified and where the quantity of the hazardous substance is increased to 3 or 

more times that originally notified the activity is required to be re notified as if it were a new activity. 

Leaflet 5 Annex D 

October 2001 

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