COSHH training for everyone who works with chemicals, dusts or fumes
This is PHW training with a certificate of completion. It is not an accredited qualification, so it is for you to decide whether it is enough for your business.
Each person does the course on their own phone, passes a test that is marked automatically, and gets a certificate with a QR code that anyone can scan to check. You see who has passed. £22.50 a place.
£22.50 a place is the whole price. It costs the same for one place or fifty.
COSHH, the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002, is the law on substances that can harm your health. Bleach, solvent, glue, paint, ink, lubricant and detergent can all be hazardous, with a warning label or without one.
Dust or fume that your own work makes can count too. Wood dust and stone dust come from the job, not from a shop. Dusty or fume-laden air can cause lung disease in welders, quarry workers and woodworkers.
A splash burn hurts at once. Some harm is slower. HSE says some diseases take years to develop, so "we have always done it this way" proves nothing.
The illnesses include asthma and other lung disease, cancer, and skin disease such as dermatitis. Some people lose their jobs because of them. HSE also says this ill health is preventable.
Your employer has to assess the risk before the work starts. They have to prevent your exposure, or where that is not reasonably practicable, control it properly. They have to give you information, instruction and training.
This course is the general knowledge part. Your employer still has to tell you which substances you work with on this site and what their assessment says. They also have to provide the equipment and check that you can do the job safely on your own site.
A worker sands a wooden door and the dust hangs in the air. How should the firm treat that dust?
The course is built to take about 40 minutes in all. It is nine short lessons of four or five minutes each, then a test of 15 questions. The pass mark is 12 right. Staff can stop after any lesson and carry on later from the same link.
You get a page with one link to send to your staff, by text, WhatsApp or however you like. Each person opens it, types their name and starts. Their certificate and practical sign-off sheet show on your page when they pass.
It is the training. Your COSHH assessments, working equipment and the practical sign-off on your own site are yours to do, and the course tells your staff so.
It says the person completed the online COSHH course and passed the test. It lists what the course covered and carries a QR code and a certificate number. It is training evidence you can put on file and show to anyone who asks.
Once someone has passed, you watch them do the real work on your own site, with your own substances and extraction. The practical sheet has twelve checks, such as finding the safety data sheet, checking the extraction, picking the right glove and fit checking the mask. If a check does not apply to the job, mark it N/A. When every check that applies is ticked, you authorise them in writing for that work. The online course covers the knowledge. This part happens on your site.
Yes. The lessons are short, written for a phone screen and can be done in ten minute bursts. Each person uses their own phone and their own link.
Scan the QR code on it, or type in the certificate number on the check page. It shows the name, the course, the date and whether the certificate is valid.
They are told which lessons to re-read and can retake the test straight away. The place you paid for allows unlimited retakes, and each retake uses a fresh draw of questions.
They can ask for it again by email on the "Lost my link" page, as long as they gave an email address when they started.
This is PHW training with a certificate of completion. It is not an accredited qualification, so it is for you to decide whether it is enough for your business.