Course Overview:
This course will result in delegates being better able to implement the intentions of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, the COSHH Regulations 1999 and other related regulations.
Course Objectives:
• Defined “hazardous substances”, “hazard”, “risk of exposure” and “control”
• Identified hazardous substances
• Interpreted the company’s policies and systems of work
Course Content:
• Background to COSHH
- Aims
- Purpose
- Legal background
- Linking legislation
- Summary of COSHH regulations
• Identifying Hazardous substances
- Substances used at work
- COSHH codes
- Substances hazardous to health
• Hazard and risk
- Definitions
- Routes of entry
- Hazard effects
• Control of hazardous substances
- Existing methods
- Practical exercise
• Sources of information
- Information needed
- Questions to ask
• Assessment of risk
- Basis of assessment
- Competence of assessors
- Forms
- Practical Risk Assessment
• Maintenance of controls
- Controls of use
- COSHH requirements for maintenance and testing
- Monitoring exposure
- Information and training
Duration: One Day