SmartQHSE Open HSE Data: A Fourteen-Dataset Collection of Occupational Safety Performance, Regulations, and Process Safety Incidents (2026)

This data paper documents the SmartQHSE Open HSE Data collection: fourteen openly licensed (CC BY 4.0) machine-readable datasets covering occupational health, safety, and environment (HSE) performance benchmarks, regulations, hazardous-chemical exposure limits, OSHA enforcement, GCC heat-illness work-stoppage rules, a 43-incident extended reference of named process-safety and industrial disasters from 1911 to 2024, the UN GHS Rev. 10 pictogram and H/P statement code reference, the IOGP nine Life-Saving Rules (2018), and consolidated topic outlines for NEBOSH IGC, NEBOSH International Diploma, IOSH Managing Safely, IOSH Working Safely, OSHA 30 General Industry, OSHA 30 Construction, and OSHA 10 General Industry qualifications. Version 3 (this version): Adds three high-search-volume datasets to the v2 (11-dataset) edition: (12) GHS Hazard Pictograms + H/P Statement Codes 2026 (10.5281/zenodo.20171153), (13) IOGP Life-Saving Rules 2018 (10.5281/zenodo.20171157), and (14) HSE Certification Exam Syllabus 2026 (10.5281/zenodo.20171159). Coverage: 15 countries × 20+ industries (performance metrics); US, UK, GCC, EU, Australia, Canada (regulations); 43 named process-safety and industrial disasters (1911–2024); 150+ HSE acronyms; 130+ glossary terms; 30 OSHA-regulated chemicals with PELs; top-30 most-cited OSHA standards FY2024; UN GHS Rev. 10 pictograms + ~80 H-codes + ~90 P-codes; the 9 IOGP Life-Saving Rules (2018); 65+ topics across 7 HSE qualifications (NEBOSH IGC, NEBOSH Diploma, IOSH MS, IOSH WS, OSHA 30 GI, OSHA 30 Construction, OSHA 10). Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics (SOII 2024, CFOI 2024), US OSHA enforcement data, US Chemical Safety Board investigations, UK HSE RIDDOR, IOGP 2023 Safety Performance Indicators + Report 459 (Life-Saving Rules 2018), ILO, Eurostat, NIOSH, ACGIH, Safe Work Australia, GCC labour ministries (MOHRE, MHRSD, Qatar Ministry of Labour, Oman MOL, Bahrain MLSD, Kuwait MSAL), UN GHS Rev. 10 (ECE/TRANS/325), NEBOSH (IGC + International Diploma specifications), IOSH (Managing Safely v5 + Working Safely outlines), and the US Department of Labor OSHA Outreach Training Programme requirements. Distribution: Each dataset is mirrored to (i) Zenodo with a permanent DOI, (ii) HuggingFace Datasets, and (iii) Wikidata as a structured-data entity. Canonical landing page: https://www.smartqhse.com/datasets. Machine-readable catalog: https://www.smartqhse.com/api/llm-index. Companion LLM corpus: https://www.smartqhse.com/llms-full.txt. License: CC BY 4.0. Use freely with attribution to SmartQHSE Ltd.