COSHH Templates

The COSHH templates are the document set for the chemical side of HSE: the COSHH assessment form for the substance, the exposure and the hierarchy of controls, the COSHH register for the running record of the significant substances, and the COSHH data sheet for the one-page summary at the point of use. Each one is the COSHH duty as a record, and the three together are the chemical record: the assessment is the depth per substance, the register is the breadth across the site, and the data sheet is the summary at the task.

Which COSHH template for which need: the COSHH assessment template is the form per substance, the exposure, the hierarchy, the pre- and post-control scores, and the register line. The COSHH register is the running record of the significant substances, the CAS, the area, the main control, the review dates. And the COSHH data sheet is the one-page summary of the SDS, the hazards, the first aid, the spill, at the point of use. The three are the chemical record, in the documents the duty needs. The order of use is fixed: read the SDS, score the exposure, put the controls in hierarchy order from elimination down to PPE, record the residual score, and review on the date the register carries. The assessment is the depth per substance, the register is the breadth across the site, and the data sheet is the SDS data in your own words, at the point of use. Together the three are the chemical record the inspector opens first, and where the substance is the significant one, the carcinogen, the sensiser, the oxidiser, the template is the preparation and the competent person is the sign-off, in the UK under the COSHH Regulations 2002 and in the US under the OSHA HazCom 2012 standard, where the GHS-aligned structure carries across.

Every template in this category works the same way: fill it in in your browser, add or remove the lines the job needs, print it as a signed, dated document or export the rows to CSV. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account. The professional version — the sign-off, the audit, the training — runs through umer-hse.pro.

The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 put the duty on the employer to assess the exposure to the substance and to control it, and the assessment runs its own six steps: identify the substance and the exposure, decide who is at risk and how, evaluate the controls that are in place, implement the new controls in the hierarchy, monitor and review. The hierarchy is the heart of it — eliminate the substance, substitute it with the safer one, engineer the exposure down, manage the work around it, and only then the PPE. An assessment that ends at the PPE is an assessment that skipped the first four rungs.

The data that holds the assessment is the exposure. The workplace exposure limit from the EH40 list, the measurement when the limit is in question, the medical surveillance where the substance demands it, and the safety data sheet that is current and in the language the crew reads. The OSHA side runs the same method under the hazard communication standard — the GHS classification, the exposure assessment, the controls — and the document that travels between the two systems is the assessment with the numbers in it.

The templates in this section take the six steps from the regulation to the page: the COSHH assessment with the exposure data and the hierarchy, the substance register that keeps the site's chemistry in one place, the exposure monitoring record, and the health surveillance review. Each one is printable and editable, and the professional support — the measurement, the surveillance, the audit — runs through umer-hse.pro.

• The six steps: identify the substance, decide who, evaluate the controls, implement in the hierarchy, monitor, review
• The hierarchy: eliminate, substitute, engineer, manage, and the PPE last
• The exposure data is the difference between the assessment and the guess
• The assessment that ends at the PPE has skipped the first four rungs