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Course Overview Despite the introduction of COSHH regulations over ten years ago, the health of thousands of employees continues to be affected by exposure to hazardous substances. COSHH 2002 introduced a number of significant changes, important ones defining adequacy of control were introduced last year and other changes for certain substances are in the pipeline. This workshop will help you to comply with the regulations and therefore avoid prosecution by the HSE and help minimise employee compensation claims. This course will explain the principle of COSHH and the changes that have occurred since its inception. This will allow you to thoroughly review your organisation's processes and procedures to ensure that you are in compliance with all the latest developments. Case studies will be included which cover a wide variety of circumstances relating to a typical range of occupational exposure patterns, allowing you to learn from real life examples. You will also be shown how to identify key information and interpret the results. 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: - Keep up-to-date with recent changes
- Find out how it applies to your organisation
- Sort out the key issues from the triviality
- Discover how to best use resources to comply with COSHH
- Improve on how to effectively protect health and comply with the regulations without going over the top
- Gain a real understanding of what COSHH means
Course Outline A concise guide to COSHH - Why COSHH?
- Origins of COSHH
- Purpose and application
- The current regulations
Recent changes - New definitions for adequacy of control
- Workplace exposure limits
Key requirements - Assessment
- Control mesures
- Exposure monitoring
- Health surveillance
- Education and training
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
Syndicate workshop - risk assessment - Small syndicates
- Conditioning case studies
- Assessing risk
- Making judgements
Feedback from syndicate 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
Special risks - Carcinogens
- Respiratory sensitisers
- Biological agents
Syndicate workshop - Case studies
- Interpretation of exposure monitoring information
- Selecting controls
Syndicate feedback COSHH management Questions and answers
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