COSHH

Regardless of what an organisation does, its personnel make use of various materials and substances that may, or may not, be hazardous to them. Apart from it being a legal requirement for all such substances to be accompanied by a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) and for the activities involving their use to be risk assessed, many companies take such substances at face value, unquestioned, with regard to the harm that may be inflicted on persons who use them.

Whilst in offices, employees make use of laser printer cartridges, whose dust is carcinogenic, they may use correcting fluid, if they still use typewriters, where this liquid is harmful if inhaled and in workshops, or factories, they may use paint, or adhesives, which are harmful when inhaled, even though these chemical-based substances have been superseded already by products which are water-based and harmless.

This training enables its attendees to learn about MSDSs and know how to perform risk assessments, to be able to distinguish between the characteristics of one material/substance and another, so that, in future, they will be able to make a wise, considered, choice in their purchase, or provisioning, in order not to put their colleagues, or clients/customers at risk.