Hello, Does anyone know where I can find info on charging car batteries in a warehouse? I have been told its banned but cant seem to find anything on this. We sell car batterys and sometimes if one is flat , in the past we would charge it ready to sell. Please help.

Hi Lisa, HSE publication have indg 139 - Electric Storage Batteries, for free download. PH2

Lisa - You were right to question and not blindly accept what you’ve told about a ban. As can be discerned from other threads on this forum, various myths have developed about all sorts of alleged bans on work activities and substances, and “health and safety” tends to be quoted as the reason. However, as JJ Prendergast has already stated at #2, there is very little which is actually banned by OS&H-related laws. For a good example, as many involved with schools will know, a commendable survey “Surely that’s banned?” completed in 2005 for the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) by the school science organisations CLEAPSS and SSERC found that many employees in secondary school science departments wrongly thought that bans existed regarding a wide variety of school science procedures and substances. In fact very few procedures and substances are banned, e.g. benzene and benzene compounds because of their carcinogenic nature. Further details including a copy of the report are available at http://www.rsc.org/Scien...cy/SurelyThatsBanned.asp