INDG136 (rev3) COSHH: A brief guide to the …

This leaflet is written mainly for employers to help them to meet their specificduties under COSHH. It will also be useful to safety representatives, healthand safety professionals and anyone interested in health and safety COSHH mattersUsing chemicals or other hazardous substances at work can put people s health atrisk, so the law requires employers to control exposure to hazardous substances toprevent ill health. They have to protect both employees and others who may beexposed by complying with the Control of Substances Hazardous to HealthRegulations 2002 (COSHH) (as amended).COSHH is a useful tool of good management which sets eight basic measures thatemployers, and sometimes employees, must take. These are set out in this leafletwith a simple step-by-step approach which will help you to assess risks, implementany measures needed to control exposure and establish good working you as an employer fail to adequately control hazardous substances, youremployees or others may become ill.

What is a substance hazardous to health under COSHH? Under COSHH there are a range of substances regarded as hazardous to health: Substances or mixtures of substances classified as dangerous to health under the Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations

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