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Asbestos Licence Database

Database was set up in 1997 to record details of all asbestos licences and applications for asbestos licences since 1984. It contains 5543 records for current and previous licence holders – 479...

Asbestos registers

Data on risks from asbestos across the DCLG estate

Asbestos Registers

Data on risks from asbestos across the Department for Education estate

Asbestos Notifications System (ANS)

Notification is required of particular work, requiring an asbestos licence, under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (and previous regulations). This database stores information on...

Notifications of licensed work (and some types of non-licensed work) with asbestos

Notification required by EU Directive 2009/148/EC on the protection of workers from the risk of exposure to asbestos. Generally, the removal of asbestos has to be done by contractors who are...

Survey of Asbestos Workers by Health & Safety Laboratory (on behalf of HSE).

The survey provides data on health surveillance of licensed asbestos workers occupationally exposed to asbestos in order to monitor the effectiveness of regulations to control this. This includes...

Water chemistry and algal pigments from dust leaching and dust addition experiments and from lake sediment cores in Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland, 2017-2018

These data are derived from a dust leaching experiment, an in-lake mesocosm experiment and from sediment cores obtained from lakes in the Kangerlussuaq area of West Greenland. The dust leaching...

Meteorological and atmospheric dust data from Kangerlussuaq, southwest Greenland, 2017-2019

This dataset contains meteorological and atmospheric dust concentration, deposition and particle-size data from Kangerlussuaq, southwest Greenland, 2017-2019. Meteorological and dust concentration...

UK SOLAS Dust Outflow and Deposition to the Ocean (DODO) FAAM Aircraft campaign

The UK SOLAS Dust Outflow and Deposition to the Ocean (DODO) project aimed at quantifying the chemical and microphysical properties of Saharan dust in the tropical Atlantic region. Case studies...

UK SOLAS Dust Outflow and Deposition to the Ocean (DODO) FAAM Aircraft campaign

The UK SOLAS Dust Outflow and Deposition to the Ocean (DODO) project aimed at quantifying the chemical and microphysical properties of Saharan dust in the tropical Atlantic region. Case studies...

Trace elements in residential indoor vacuum dust, collected via a citizen-led sampling approach and analysed by XRF (NERC Grant NE/T004401/1)

A dataset of trace metal concentrations (As, Cu, Cr, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn) in indoor dust from homes from 11 countries, along with a suite of potentially contributory residential characteristics. A...

Indoor particulate matter study (PM10, PM2.5, vacuum dust) at residential homes in North-East England using a citizen-led sampling approach (NERC Grant NE/T004401/1)

A dataset of airborne particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) readings (every 3 minutes) collected by participating households in Northeast England in their kitchens and living rooms over the course of...

Microbial genomic DNA data for participant collected household vacuum dust from homes across two bioclimatic regions (UK and Greece) (NERC Grant NE/T004401/1)

The <250um fraction of 19 household vacuum dust samples (collected by citizen participants during 2019-2021) were extracted using high throughput isolation of microbial genomic DNA and sequenced...

Bacterial diversity (16S rRNA gene) in participant collected household vacuum dust from homes across two bioclimatic regions (UK and Greece), with associated participant questionnaire and trace element data. (NERC Grant NE/T004401/1)

The <250um fraction of 28 household vacuum dust samples were extracted using high throughput isolation of microbial genomic DNA (21 samples from a national campaign within the UK and 7 samples...

BGS reference collection of mineral samples

About 1500 mineral specimens derived from former Overseas Geological Survey and Atomic Energy Division collections, supplemented by additions e.g. c.400 worldwide asbestos mine samples. Many...

Appointed Doctors Database

Contains details of doctors that are appointed in writing by HSE to conduct statutory medical surveillance under a range of HSE regulations relating to asbestos, chemicals, lead and working in...

Sheffield Air Quality Management Area

We have a statutory duty to manage local air quality in Sheffield under the Environment Act 1995. We have an Air Quality Action Plan for how we will tackle problems with air quality in Sheffield....

Sandwell MBC Smoke Control Area

Location of designated Smoke Control Areas within Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. The Clean Air Act 1993 consolidated two earlier acts which gave Local Authorities the power to control emissions of...

Cleaned UK rainfall chemistry data (1986-2011)

These data are based on the UK rainfall chemistry data held on the UK-AIR database operated on behalf of Defra (http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/). A subset of 20 sites was analysed, being those with the...

Datasets produced by Multiscale Impacts of Cyanobacterial Crusts on Landscape Stability (1/6) (NERC grant NE/K011464/1)

Data from laboratory experiments conducted as part of project NE/K011464/1 (associated with NE/K011626/1) Multiscale Impacts of Cyanobacterial Crusts on Landscape stability. Soils were collected...