HSE have compiled a set of example Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) risk assessments for some industries.
Category: COSHH
Coping with health and safety legislation
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Netherwood Hotel, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria. 15 October 2009. Coping with health and safety legislation: manual handling, COSHH and work equipment.
Sign up safely - Free event
Monday, June 8, 2009
Barnsley, 30 June 2009. HSE and The British Sign & Graphics Association free safety and health awareness day,
Statement of evidence: Respiratory hazards of poultry dust
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Poultry dust can harm the respiratory system (nose, throat, airways and lungs) and workers may experience a range of symptoms including sore throat, cough, wheezing, shortness of breath, bronchitis and even occupational asthma.
Controlling exposure to poultry dust
Thursday, April 2, 2009
People working in poultry houses inhale many different airborne particles which collectively are referred to as poultry dust.
Occupational hygiene 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
April 28 to 30 2009, Eastbourne. Organised by the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS), this event will bring together leading UK, European and international researchers, practitioners and regulators.
European health and safety legislation
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Euronews provides revised and updated information about European health and safety legislation on the horizon,
Selecting protective gloves
Thursday, January 8, 2009
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) essentials guidance sheet on selecting protective gloves has been updated.
Deadline: biocides containing “unsupported” active substances
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Reminder - certain biocidal products containing active substances cannot be sold in the EU or stored
REACH eBulletin - out now
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sign up to the free REACH chemicals e-Bulletin and join more than 6,000 other subscribers who
Controlling isocyanate exposure in spray booths and spray rooms
Thursday, December 18, 2008
This guidance is aimed at owners and managers of bodyshops and will be of use to employees (particularly paint sprayers) as well as suppliers.
New chemicals at work portal
Thursday, November 13, 2008
There is a new chemicals portal page to help users navigate quickly to their area of interest. The page
DVD: Signposts for health and safety
Friday, September 26, 2008
Originally broadcast on BBC2 as 10 half-hour programmes - a variety of small businesses show how
Sandblasting company fined for using banned substance
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
HSE has issued a reminder that the use of sand containing silica for dry sand blasting of vehicles
A guide to the RIDDOR 1995
Thursday, June 5, 2008
This new edition of A guide to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
HSG 258: Controlling airborne contaminants at work
Thursday, June 5, 2008
This book provides guidance on the supply of new Local Exhaust Equipment (LEV). It describes the principles and good
COSHH essentials in microelectronics
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Guidance sheets for compliance with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) regulations in the
Quarry prosecutions
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Details of two prosecutions for exposure to respirable crystalline silica.
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