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COSHH Awareness & Chemical Handling Compliance
Kingston Open College

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Summary

Price
£21 inc VAT
Study method
Online, On Demand 
Course format
16 Videos
Duration
1 hour · Self-paced
Qualification
No formal qualification
CPD
10 CPD hours / points
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  • Reed Courses Certificate of Completion - Free
  • Digital certificate - £9
  • Hard copy certificate - £15
Assessment details
  • Assessment (included in price)
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Overview

COSHH Awareness & Chemical Handling Compliance strengthens workplace safety across UK industries. Therefore, it begins with the definition and purpose of COSHH regulations. It traces the historical development from the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act to COSHH 2002. Moreover, it clarifies key terms such as WELs, CLP, and SDS. As a result, learners connect terminology with daily practice. It also explains links to GHS, REACH, and OSHA standards. Consequently, participants see how UK compliance aligns globally.

The course then examines hazardous substances and risk control systems. Therefore, it explains hazard classification and routes of exposure. It introduces toxicology basics and environmental impacts. Furthermore, it strengthens COSHH risk assessment steps and the hierarchy of control. It covers exposure limits, monitoring, and emergency spill response. In addition, it applies COSHH across healthcare, construction, manufacturing, hospitality, and laboratories. Finally, it reviews legal duties, enforcement cases, safety culture, training methods, and future chemical safety developments.

Learning Outcomes

  • Explain COSHH regulations and core chemical safety principles
  • Identify hazardous substances and exposure routes
  • Conduct structured COSHH risk assessments
  • Apply hierarchy of control and monitoring measures
  • Recognise legal duties and enforcement expectations

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CPD

10 CPD hours / points
Accredited by CPD Quality Standards

Curriculum

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Format: 16 Videos

Duration: 1h and 3m

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Description

COSHH Awareness & Chemical Handling Compliance begins with an introduction to COSHH and chemical safety. It defines COSHH regulations and explains their historical development. It clarifies key terms such as WELs, CLP, and SDS. It links COSHH to GHS, REACH, and OSHA frameworks. The course then examines hazardous substances and their effects. It classifies hazards such as toxic, corrosive, flammable, irritant, and carcinogenic substances. It explains exposure routes and toxicology principles including dose–response and chronic effects. It also covers biological and environmental impacts and chemical compatibility issues. The programme then strengthens risk assessment and control measures. It explains COSHH assessment steps and the hierarchy of control. It addresses workplace exposure limits, monitoring, LEV, RPE, PPE, spill response, and documentation. Sector-specific applications follow across healthcare, construction, manufacturing, hospitality, and laboratories. The course then reviews legal and ethical duties under COSHH. It explains employer and employee responsibilities, HSE enforcement, penalties, and case law. Finally, it presents historical lessons, occupational diseases, safety culture development, training design, communication tools, digital innovations, sustainability, and future chemical safety resilience.

Who is this course for?

  • Health and safety staff
  • Construction workers
  • Laboratory personnel
  • Manufacturing employees
  • Cleaning and hospitality staff
  • Supervisors and managers

Requirements

  • You do not need prior safety qualifications.
  • However, workplace chemical exposure awareness supports learning.
  • In addition, basic literacy assists documentation tasks.

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