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COSHH
COSHH Essentials – Practical Guidance on Control
An electronic version can be accessed free of charge on http://www.coshh-essentials.org.uk/. The website gives instruction on how to work through the guidance for the particular chemical or substance you are interested in and allows you to print of records and details of control methods for your risk assessment.
The starting point for COSHH Essentials is the MSDS from the supplier. Health hazards should be identified by standard risk phrases like “R21 Harmful in contact with the skin” or “R43 May cause sensitisation by skin contact”. The guidance explains how to use these risk phrases to allocate the substance to one of five
hazard groups. It then advises how to score the substance
depending on the quantity used and how dusty or volatile it is.
Finally it refers the user to a set of guidance sheets with the appropriate control measures depending on the score the substance achieves. The guidance sheets cover common manufacturing processes like sack emptying, mixing, etc.