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COSHH ASSESSMENT & MANAGEMENT
Sample Programme - 5 Hours
10.00am Hazardous substances
The scale of the problem
Types of injury and ill-health
Routes of entry to the body
Principles of protection
10.30am The Law
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regs.2002
10.45am Short Film – COSHH management in various industries
11.00am Coffee Break
11.10am Risk Assessment
General Principles
Who is ‘Competent’ to be an Assessor?
11.25am Elements of a COSHH Assessment
- Identification of hazardous substances in the workplace.
- Understanding the hazard - Sources of information
- Who is at risk?
- Quantifying risk – severity & likelihood
- Possible control measures- hierarchy of eleven options
- Consultation – Legal requirement & practical value
- Recording the Assessment – suitable forms
- Informing the workforce
- Monitoring effectiveness of the COSHH Assessment
- Reviewing the assessment
11.55am Stretch break
12.00pm Practical COSHH Assessment
Taking a substance currently in use at the client’s workplace, to work through each stage of the COSHH Assessment process and record the findings on appropriate forms, to arrive at a completed COSHH assessment.
12.45pm Lunch
1.30pm Practical COSHH Assessment
Repeat the process for a substance occurring as a waste
product in the workplace
2.20pm Stretch Break
2.25pm Turning Words into Practice
- Communicating the COSHH Assessment to the workforce
- Information
- Instruction & Training
- Supervision
- Achieving wider ownership of safety issues
- Accident reporting & ‘near misses’
2.50pm Summary and any remaining questions
3.00pm Conclusion
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