page_title: Health and Safety Laboratory
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Health and Safety Laboratory / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Bunker, Health and Safety Laboratory. Built from concrete blocks and presumably used for experiments into explosions. See http://www.hsl.gov.uk/about-us/where-are-we.htm for more information on the Health and Safety Laboratory.
context_page_description: The Health and Safety Laboratory is a large 550-acre research site in rural High Peak, Derbyshire, south of Buxton.
  It researches new methods in industrial safety. It provides training courses in subjects such as Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015 and DSEAR.
context_section_description: It started out as the Safety in Mines Research Establishment (SMRE) in 1947. The Safety in Mines Research Board had been formed in 1921, and it bought the site in Harpur Hill in 1924. It researched work into safety of mining. Other research laboratories for mining safety had been opened in 1928 in Sheffield. At the SMRE in 1956, Herbert Eisner discovered how high-expansion foam can put out fires.
  The Occupational Medicine Laboratory opened in London in 1959, and this merged with the site in Derbyshire to form the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Research and Laboratory Services Division (RLSD). All of the laboratories became the Health and Safety Laboratory in 1995, and it was managed as an arms length Agency of HSE for 20 years. In 2015 the laboratory’s agency status ceased and it was reintegrated into the UK's Health and Safety Regulator HSE, operating as the HSE's science division.
caption: A bunker at the laboratory
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