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Ultimate Guide to Storing Hazardous Substances
At Workplace Products understand it can be overwhelming when it comes to controlling hazardous substances. However, ensuring the safe storage of substances is essential to protect workforces and public safety. Moreover, this ultimate guide to hazardous substances will give you a proper understanding of COSHH regulations. What are Hazardous Substances? A hazardous substance is anything hazardous to health. This can include, chemicals, fumes, dust, and more… This can include cleaning agents, paint, gases and biological agents such as fungi, bacteria and viruses. Often we overlook these are general day-to-day products, therefore ensuring
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Answering your COSHH Questions!
What is COSHH storage? Storage of hazardous substances should be considered with a risk assessment in every workplace. Substances are in almost every work environment. Therefore, you will need to control and store these substances to meet COSHH Regulations. Examples include factories, farms, offices, hospitals, shops, schools, warehouses and laboratories. Types of hazardous storage cabinets: We stock an extensive TUFF Range with a wide range of sizes to suit every need and industry! Let’s run you through our best sellers…now with up to 45% OFF! TUFF 45 Hazardous Cupboard- NOW WITH 45%
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COSHH: Who Is Responsible?
What is COSHH? COSHH is a law that requires employers to control substances that are hazardous to health. The majority of businesses will use substances that are hazardous to health on an everyday basis, from cleaning products, chemicals, gases, and dust or vapours. With this in mind, it is important to understand your role and who is responsible of COSHH in your workplace environment. Who is responsible? The easy answer is.. Everybody! Although, the employer is directly responsible for COSHH standards. Nevertheless, it is vital employees comply with COSHH measures and procedures
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Health and Safety Tips – World Day for Safety at Work
Health and Safety Tips in the Workplace To raise awareness of World Day for Health and Safety at Work we have put together key tips and recommendations on cost-effective equipment to keep your employees safe at work. Workplace Products are always safeguarding the health and safety of our employees. Promoting and creating a Health and Safety culture in the workplace can reduce the number of work-related deaths and injuries. Certain work safety tips can be followed by all employees, creating a safer work environment for all. The following tips will help mitigate
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An Introduction to CoSHH and CoSHH Cabinets
What is CoSHH and does it affect my business? CoSHH stands for Control of Substances Hazardous to Health. CoSHH is a law that requires employers to take any necessary steps to control substances hazardous to health that are present within the working environment. As part of your CoSHH and Health and Safety assessments, you should also implement suitable emergency procedures. To help define how to deal with accidents involving these harmful substances. For example, these might include spill containment products, drench showers or first aid equipment. Consequently, as a result of the
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How to store chemicals in the workplace
Everyday we use more hazardous chemicals than we’re fully aware of. We also may not store chemicals correctly. Unless you’re a scientist then that statement hopefully won’t apply, but for the majority of us it will. Most of us will use chemicals in our homes in the form of cleaning fluids, or in the workplace in the form of oils, glues, paints and cleaners as part of our job. In general, the chemicals that we use day-to-day are not harmful. When stored and used correctly, and are easy to clear up if
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CoSHH Regulations on Hazardous Storage
It is essential in today’s work environment to choose the correct hazardous storage. Most businesses use products or substances, that are mixtures of substances, which are considered hazardous and could cause potential harm to employees and other people. Some substances are easily recognisable as harmful. But common substances such as paint, bleach, or dust from natural materials may also be harmful. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (CoSHH) is the law that requires employers to control substances that are hazardous to health. Employees’ exposure to hazardous substances can be prevented
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