Health & Safety Part 1

Control of substances hazardous to health ( COSHH) :-

Little details about COSHH : Its to protect people at work. It helps the employe and employer with step by step guidence to the control of subtances hazardous to health.
Some examples of the effects of hazardous substances include:-

• skin irritation, dermatitis or even skin cancer from frequent contact with oils;
• asthma resulting from sensitisation to isocyanates in paints or adhesives;
• being overcome by toxic fumes - injuries or death can be caused by the substances themselves or by falling after losing consciousness;
• poisoning by drinking toxic liquids from bottles thought to contain water or soft drinks - sometimes with fatal results;
• cancer, which can appear many years after first exposure to carcinogenic (cancer-causing) substances at work;
• infection from bacteria and other micro-organisms ('biological agents').

Examples of warning labels :-
Very toxic or toxic Harmful or irritant Corrosive

(most of the details was taken from http://www.e-radiography.net/regsetc/coshh.htm)