Free leaflets

A range of free leaflets providing advice and guidance.

• COSHH essentials for farmers
• Respiratory sensitisers and COSHH [150KB]
• Chemicals
• Foundries
• Health and safety regulations
• Managing health and safety
• Metals
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Risk assessment

Videos

• Personal Protective Equipment

Advisory committees

• HSC's Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances

HSE and COSHH

• Essentials guidance publications (COSHH)
• New approach to good practice and OELs in COSHH
• COSHH: a brief guide to the regulations [260KB]
• COSHH Essentials website
  Provides advice on controlling the use of chemicals for a range of common tasks, by taking you through a number of steps and asking for information about your tasks and chemicals.

Forms

• Notification of use and consignment of biological agents - CBA1 form
  

Further information

• Face-fit testing of respiratory protective equipment [350KB]
• The European Commission's (EC) Guidance on the Chemical Agents Directive (CAD) (98/24/EC) [2.52mb]
  Although the EC's guidance contains some useful information, it is guidance on the Directive itself and not on the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH), which implements the Directive in GB. There may be subtle differences between the two, and so readers are advised to consult the HSE-produced COSHH ACoP/ guidance material for definitive information on COSHH. The EC guidance document covers only part of the Directive and so it should not be considered as providing everything on CAD.

Workplace exposure limits

The following tables, supplementary information and calculation methods have been extracted from EH40/2005 which contains the list of workplace exposure limits for use with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (as amended).

• Table 1: List of approved workplace exposure limits [111KB]
  Includes new WELs which come into force on 1 October 2007.
• Table 1: Supplementary information [35KB]
• Table 2: Biological Monitoring Guidance Values [10KB]
• Calculation methods [33KB]
• OELs and the effective control of exposure to substances hazardous to health in the UK (Version 3) [249Kb]