COSHH Awareness Course
COSHH Awareness is training that helps you understand the hazards associated with hazardous substances used or stored in the workplace and the legal responsibilities for controlling them.
The course explains how chemicals can cause harm, what the relevant COSHH regulations require, and how to identify, assess, and control risks. You will also learn how to carry out a COSHH risk assessment to ensure that you and others are protected from exposure to hazardous substances at work.
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Why Should I Take the COSHH Awareness Course?
The course is suitable for a broad range of individuals from various industries, such as those who use, store, handle, transport or manufacture hazardous substances.
Chemicals and other hazardous substances can be a real health risk in untrained hands. To prevent injury and ill-health, you must understand the risks.
Under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH), the law requires you to control hazardous substances; this course will help you understand your responsibilities.
What Does the COSHH Awareness Course Involve?
This course covers the following topics (for the full list of topics covered, keep on reading):
- The different forms of biological and chemical agents
- Classifying substances
- Specific agents and their health hazards
- Routes of entry