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#1 Posted : 22 August 2005 15:51:00(UTC)
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Posted By Tim Hello all I am looking for some examples/case studies of where COSHH mismanagement occured to include in a presentation. Can anyone help? Thanks
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#2 Posted : 23 August 2005 13:07:00(UTC)
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Posted By steve e ashton As H&S manager for a water company - we supplied water - I was asked for a copy of our MSDS for the product we supplied to an organisation.....(in the financial sector) After three fruitless 'phone calls to the numpty who was 'going through COSHH' I prepared the sheet. - It simply wasn't worth arguing with him. The usual stupidities... Protective clothing - either swim trunks/bikini or gore-tex oversuit and rubber gloves. Risks - from inhalation - at a concentration of 1gm/cm3 Avoid prolonged skin exposure (wrinkles etc... Mismanagement or just a numpty doing his usual best to raise the general levels of irritation in the world? I never could decide. Steve
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#3 Posted : 23 August 2005 16:44:00(UTC)
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Posted By Jeff Manion There was an incident - six years ago - with the Imperial College London. The consulant completed a assessment and persons may have been exposed - the works involved a fume cupboard. The consultant was prosecuted - belive under COSHH along with the college. JM
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#4 Posted : 23 August 2005 17:08:00(UTC)
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Posted By peter gotch Tim, More information about the incident to which Jeff refers at https://www.imperial.ac....comm/hscouncil/Hscouncil(15March%202001).PDF Also why not do a search of the HSE prosecutions database for convictions under COSHH ? Regards, Peter
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#5 Posted : 23 August 2005 17:42:00(UTC)
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter The COSHH prosecutions database is very small! Paul
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