COSHH essentials
COSHH Essentials (microsite) provides advice on controlling chemicals in the workplace. COSHH Essentials includes a series of guidance sheets to help you determine what you need to do in a practical way. Below are links to a selection of the guidance sheets that may be of use in the plastics industry:
- Control guidance sheet S100 - General advice; Chemicals causing harm via skin or eye contact
- Sheet S101 - Selecting protective gloves; supplementary advice
- Sheet S102 - Selecting personal protective equipment
- Sheet S200 - Skin or Eye Contact
- Control Guidance Sheet 100 - General Ventilation
- Control Guidance Sheet 101 - General Ventilation: General Storage
- Control Guidance Sheet 102 - General Ventilation: Open Bulk Storage
- Control Guidance Sheet 103 - General Ventilation: Removing waste from a dust extraction unit
- Control Guidance Sheet 200 - Engineering Control: Local Exhaust Ventilation
- Control Guidance Sheet 201 - Engineering Control: Fume Cupboard
- Control Guidance Sheet 202 - Engineering Control: Laminar Flow Booth
- Control Guidance Sheet 203 - Engineering Control: Ventilated Benchwork
- Control Guidance Sheet 204 - Engineering Control: Removing waste from an extraction unit
- Control Guidance Sheet 206 - Engineering Control: Sack filling
- Control Guidance Sheet 214 - Engineering Control: Weighing Solids
- Control Guidance Sheet 215 - Engineering Control: Mixing solids with other solids or liquids
- Control Guidance Sheet 216 - Engineering Control: Mixing solids
- Control Guidance Sheet 230 - Engineering Control: Pelletising