MoD Health & Safety Handbook 

JSP 375 Vol 2 

LEAFLET 5 ANNEX D APPENDIX 1 

MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES INC. LEAD & ASBESTOS 

SCHEDULE 1 TO THE NOTIFICATION OF INSTALLATIONS HANDLING HAZARDOUS 

SUBSTANCES REGULATIONS 1982 

PART I   NAMED SUBSTANCES 

Substance Notifiable 

quantity 

(tonnes) 

Liquefied petroleum gas, such as commercial propane and commercial butane, and any 

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mixtures thereof held at a pressure greater than 1.4 bar absolute 

Liquefied petroleum gas, such as commercial propane and commercial butane, and any 

50 

mixture thereof held under refrigeration at a pressure of 1.4 bar absolute or less 

Phosgene 

2 

Chlorine 

10 

Hydrogen fluoride 

10 

Sulphur trioxide 

15 

Acrylonitrile 

20 

Hydrogen cyanide 

20 

Carbon disulphide 

20 

Sulphur dioxide 

20 

Bromine 

40 

Ammonia (anhydrous or as solution containing more than 50% by weight of ammonia) 

100 

Hydrogen 

2 

Ethylene oxide 

5 

Propylene oxide 

5 

TERT Butyl peroxyacetate 

5 

TERT Butyl peroxyisobutyrate 

5 

TERT Butyl peroxymaleate 

5 

TERT Butyl peroxy isopropyl carbonate 

5 

Dibenzyl peroxydicarbonate 

5 

2,2 Bis(TERT butylperoxy)butane 5 

1,1 Bis(TERT butylperoxy)cyclohexane 5 

Di sec butyl peroxydicarbonate 

5 

2,2 Dihydroperoxypropane 5 

Di N propyl peroxydicarbonate 

5 

Methyl ethyl ketone peroxide 

5 

Sodium chlorate 

25 

Cellulose nitrate other than    (A) cellulose nitrate to which the Explosives Act 1875(A) 

50 

applies; or (B) solutions of cellulose nitrate where the nitrogen content of the cellulose 

nitrate does not exceed 12.3% by weight and the solution contains not more than 55 

parts of cellulose nitrate per 100 parts by weight of solution 

Ammonium nitrate and mixtures of ammonium nitrate where the nitrogen content 

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derived from the ammonium nitrate exceeds 15.75% of the mixture by weight. 

80/876/EEC(B) 

Aqueous solutions containing more than 90 parts by weight of ammonium nitrate per 

500 

100 parts by weight of solution 

Liquid oxygen 

500 

Leaflet 5 Annex D Appendix 1 

April 2003 

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