You and I know that ensuring your people are safe from exposure to chemicals can be tedious and time-consuming. There are regulations in place - a lot of them - and meeting their standards can be a huge undertaking, especially when dealing with hazardous substances. Actually understanding the regulations and being able to show that you do by proving your company is fully compliant is difficult when there is so much information to take in. There are several pages worth of data

Both COSHH and REACH both call for risk assessments to be taken, just at different times and by different people.

Hello everyone. I came across a great bit of news earlier this morning that will be great for tackling the use of hazardous substances that are deemed a major concern to public health and the planet. A great deal of these substances are present in the waste we produce on a daily basis, but there are still substances of concern in many products that we also use day-to-day. The product packaging then of course ends up on a landfill site, adding to the poison seeping into the Ea

Safety Data Sheets (SDS), previously known as Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), are a requirement of the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH.) REACH are a body of regulations put into place in June 2007 and are the controlling system for chemical use and handling in Europe. Since REACH took over control of the previous system, the Chemicals Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply Regulations 2002 (CHIP), it has been changed to adh