Health and Safety Skills: COSHH Management

Audience

• Anyone for whom COSHH is a new area of responsobility or those wishing to review and improve current arrangements for dealing with COSHH
• Health and safety advisors
• Laboratory managers and supervisors
• COSHH officers/co-ordinators
• Chemical safety managers
• Any manager with a responsibility for health and safety within your organisation

Skills Gained

Attend this workshop and:

• 1. Understand the vital changes
• 2. Find out how it applies to your organisation
• 3. Sort out the key issues from the triviality
• 4. Discover how to best use resources to comply with COSHH
• 5. Improve on how to effectively protect health and comply with the regulations without going over the top
• 6. Gain a real understanding of what COSHH means

Course Outline

1. A concise guide to COSHH

• Why COSHH?
• Origins of COSHH
• Purpose
• Application

2. COSHH 2002

• Summary of main changes
• Recent amendments
• Chemical Agents Directive
• Emergencies
• Occupational asthma
• Biological agents
• Other changes
• Lead
• Asbestos

3. Key requirements

• Assessment
• Control mesures
• Exposure monitoring
• Health surveillance
• Education and training
• Accidents, incidents & emergencies

5. Risk assessment

• Purpose of Reg 6 and risk assessment
• Overview of the risk assessment process
• Deciding strategy
• Identifying potential risk
• Assembling and using information
• Hazard data
• Data sheets and labels
• Understanding them
• Limitations
• Extracting key information
• Exposure and risk factors
• Degree of exposure
• Qualitative and quantitative information
• Who is affected
• Other information
• Control measures
• Are they adequate?
• What needs to be done?
• Making judgements
• Recording the assessment
• Change of circumstances
• Managing change
• Common problems

6.Syndicate workshop - risk assessment

• Small syndicates
• Conditioning case studies
• Assessing risk
• Making judgements

7. Feedback from syndicate

8. Control management

• Prevention
• Options for control
• Substitution
• Ventilation
• Good working methods
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Selection and use of equipment
• Administration
• Fit testing
• Points to consider
• Do controls work and are they used?
• Is the level of control appropriate?
• Adequate control - exposure limits
• Workplace exposure limits
• Principles and best practice
• Maintenance and testing
• Exposure monitoring
• Health surveillance
• Controls and their failure
• Strategies for success
• COSHH essentials

9. Special cases

• Carcinogens
• Respiratory sensitisers

10. Syndicate workshop

• Case studies

11. Syndicate feedback

12. COSHH management

• Key issues
• Action plan

13. Questions and answers

Health and Safety Skills: COSHH Management / COSHH-MGT