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COSHH - Control of Substances Hazardous to Health

Supervisors; employees; contractors. The broader COSHH Awareness page also positions the subject across workplaces where hazardous substances may be encountered.

Awarding body
Green World Group
Level
Intermediate
Duration
Minimum 4–8 hours company specific
Units
on demand
Study modes
E-learningIn-company
Teaching language
English

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

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Training mode:

Online Learning

Course Overview

COSHH course offers sound knowledge on hazardous substance, which helps candidates to understand and recognize unsafe substances at workplace, understand the legal requirements of COSHH, uses of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and ways to safeguard themselves from the risky effects of these hazardous substances.

After completing the course successfully, learners will be able to:

  • Focus on health and safety parameters, COSHH evaluation procedures, how to plan safety data sheets and approaches to perceive potentially hazardous places and basic control measures
  • Understand the importance and handling of PPE
  • Know the adequate information, instruction and training required while dealing with COSHH.

Course Chapters

  1. Understanding COSHH
    Definition of COSHH and responsibilities of employers & employees on COSHH.
  2. Finding out hazards and understanding the risk perceptions
    Ways to conduct the survey and understand key principles of COSHH evaluation.
  3. Equipment & Signs
    Knowledge on firefighting equipment, different type of fire extinguishers, safety signs, firefighting measures etc.
  4. Exposure and control measures
    Becoming aware of key exposure routes and workplace exposure limits
  5. Personal protective equipment (PPE)
    Knowledge of different types of PPE and the correct one to use.
  6. Other factors
    Check health and safety observation, details of COSHH, instruction and direction on what to do in the event of a crisis.

How does it work?

COSHH online course is an interactive session for every learner who can access the course with their PCs or any convenient gadget with good internet connection. The course would be informational, engaging and fascinating. The learners will be provided with updated, most recent, graphical visual information that will confront interactive components and mini-quizzes to check their insight upon the course.

Candidates are offered useful advice and guidance and their understanding of the subject will be tested at the end of the course through a compulsory self-test.

During the learning process, candidates will be provided with an interactive risk checklist where the users are asked a series of questions that are related to their current employment conditions.

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