MESH carry out COSHH Risk Assessments for companies in a diverse range of industries throughout the UK.
Our Head Office is in Kent, with regional offices located in London, The Home Counties, The Midlands, and The North East.
Anyone using chemicals or other hazardous substances at work is required to control exposure to hazardous substances and prevent ill health. Employers are required to protect both employees and others who may be exposed by complying with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) (as amended).
Failure to adequately control hazardous substances, means your employees or others may be adversely affected and become ill. Effects from hazardous substances range from mild eye irritation to chronic lung disease or, on occasions, death. The outcome for your business may:
- Result in lost productivity;
- Leave you liable to enforcement action, including prosecution under the COSHH Regulations;
- Result in civil claims from your employees
Hazardous substances come in many forms such as liquids, solids, gases, powders, dusts, bacteria, viruses, vapour and fumes. These can be found in most work environments such as, factories, laboratories, shops, offices, schools, hospitals, and farms etc. In our experience many employers do not understand the risks to their employees from working with hazardous substances and therefore fail to implement adequate controls.
The HSE have identified eight basic measures to follow in order to manage hazardous substances. The starting point focuses on ensuring that competent risk assessments have been completed, covering the risks to health from hazardous substances used in or created by your workplace activities.
MESH has helped a diverse range of organisations with both simple and complex COSHH assessments. We have experience of working in all of the work environments mentioned above (i.e. factories, laboratories, shops, offices, schools, hospitals, and farms, and many others as well).
So are you aware of what hazardous substances are used in your workplace?
And do you have COSHH assessments that identify adequate controls to
protect your workers and anyone else who may be affected by your activities?
Click here to view clients throughout the UK that have used MESH for COSHH risk assessments.
MESH Consultants has assisted in the development of comprehensive risk assessments for a number of clients throughout the UK, which enables those clients to learn by those experiences and put procedures in place to develop risk assessment in the future.
For an informal confidential discussion about how our risk assessment services can help your business, please do contact us without obligation.
