{"id":6560,"date":"2024-05-07T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workplace-products.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:29:27","slug":"ultimate-guide-to-storing-hazardous-substances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.workplace-products.co.uk\/blog\/ultimate-guide-to-storing-hazardous-substances\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Guide to Storing Hazardous Substances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are Hazardous Substances?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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 safety is vital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your responsibility to COSHH Regulations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, what is COSHH? This regulation stands for the control of substances hazardous to health. Ultimately, everyone is responsible for managing and abiding my COSHH Regulations. This will ensure safety is in place across all fields in a business. Although, employers have the responsibility of ensuring everything is in place to make the environment as safe as possible. Tasks include regular COSHH risk assessment checks, training for employees and compliance monitoring. In addition, we offer fast and free UK delivery for quick implementation of regulations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Understanding the Different Storage Requirements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

COSHH and Hazardous storage<\/a> come in many shapes and forms! Depending on your industry, you may require different cabinets to store your hazardous substances. How to distinguish this is easy as different industries have different colour cabinets for each. As hazardous specialists, we feature the full range of storage requirements including hazardous, flammable, agrochemical, and acid and alkali. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read below to find out which is suitable for your industry!\ud83d\udc40\u2b07\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazardous Storage<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By far our most popular is our yellow or grey hazardous storage cabinets. These comply with COSHH Regulations and all include unique features for optimal safety. A key benefit to these cabinets is the two-point locking system. This ensures the cabinet is secure and limits access to hazardous materials. It is ideal for a wide range of industries that store hazardous substances, this can range from industrial, cleaning or even hairdressers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our best seller the TUFF Hazardous Cupboard 900 x 900 x 460<\/a> is a great candidate of this, with an adjustable galvanised shelf for easy storage. Extremely high quality, we manufacture in the UK… What’s even better is the TUFF range now features 30% OFF!<\/strong> For a limited time only! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you need your cabinet and fast, our TUFF range<\/a> arrives with next day delivery!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

View our COSHH cabinets in grey here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flammable Storage<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Generally in red colour, these cabinets are ideal for laboratories, factories, warehouses, and retail. Typically, this colour is a discreet solution, with the appropriate harmful signage included as standard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a flammable liquid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n