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, in which the powder is carcinogenic, if they still use typewriters, they may use correcting fluid, which is harmful, if inhaled. In workshops and factories, paint and/or adhesives are in frequent use, with still many of these substances being chemical based, until they can be replaced by their safe water-based variants.
Training in COSHH, ensures that all persons become aware of the significance and immense help afforded by reference to the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) required, by Law, to be provided with all substances by suppliers to their clients and customers. These documents at the outset, provide detailed information, which is valuable to the purchasers, and, more seriously, they are of infinite assistance to medical personnel, in circumstances where their industrial, or even domestic, patients, has been exposed to such hazardous Substances.
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