Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH)
Whatever your business, it is possible that you either use or create substances which could potentially cause harm to employees, contractors and other people. The occupational use of such materials is regulated under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH), which requires employers to protect workers from exposure to harmful substances in the workplace.
We use Sypol CMS, which is a market leading COSHH risk management system and is used by some of the UK’s largest organisations across many high-risk sectors including oil & gas, retail, construction and healthcare. By using Sypol CMS we have fully managed COSHH support via task-based risk assessment software backed up by a helpdesk of occupational hygienists and health & safety consultants. These consultants work with us to assess and address all of your hazardous substance issues and deliver fully compliant, task based COSHH risk assessments to communicate the appropriate control measures needed to protect your staff.
The system gives us:
- instant access to a library of over 500,000 substances and work practices which can be used as the building blocks for your own bespoke COSHH assessments
- if your work practice isn’t available, the qualified team will write a new one for you
- an online management system allowing for a robust audit trail of quality audits to demonstrate compliance
- access to a COSHH Safety Data Sheet (SDS) repository and PPE database
- access to supplier details, making it easy to obtain the correct PPE for the job
simple pictograms which communicate the control measures needed to protect your staff – future proofed against REACH, EHS and CLP
