A concise guide to managing COSHH

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Course Overview

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. Keep up-to-date with recent 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 and application
• The current regulations

2. Recent changes

• New definitions for adequacy of control
• Workplace exposure limits

3. Key requirements

• Assessment
• Control mesures
• Exposure monitoring
• Health surveillance
• Education and training

4. 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

5.Syndicate workshop - risk assessment

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

6. Feedback from syndicate

7. 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

8. Special risks

• Carcinogens
• Respiratory sensitisers
• Biological agents

9. Syndicate workshop

• Case studies
• Interpretation of exposure monitoring information
• Selecting controls

10. Syndicate feedback

11. COSHH management

• Key issues
• Action plan

12. Questions and answers

A concise guide to managing COSHH / CM032333