Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002

UK legislation which requires risk assessments for all chemicals and biologicals used in the laboratory. Employers are tasked with providing free vaccines against pathogens (if such are available) and are required to maintain health records on employees who handle or are exposed to Hazard Group 3 and 4 agents.

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COSHH

References in periodicals archive

Grupo Antolin pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 7(1) of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 between June 24 2010 and January 25 2012 and was fined PS12,000 and ordered to pay costs of PS9,900.

FIRM FINED AFTER WORKER BURNED BY DANGER CHEMICAL

For example, the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) identifies a series of steps to implement control.

Dealing with dichloromethane: dichloromethane is a carcinogenic, toxic chemical, which can still be found in many industrial products. Graham Stevens, of Stevens Industrial Services, supplier of dichloromethane free weld spatter control products, looks at the problems surrounding the use of this chemical and explains what can be done about this

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