There has been no change to the regulations, but a revised ACoP & Gudance has been published.

http://press.hse.gov.uk/...tances-in-the-workplace/


Specific revisions from the previous ACOP include:

material supporting Regulations 7, 9, 10 and 11 has been updated to take account of legislative changes such as the introduction of the EU Regulations for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP);

material has been updated and amended to reflect other ongoing reviews of technical guidance associated with COSHH, e.g. for Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV), and on Health Surveillance;

clarification of Regulation 9 and local exhaust ventilation (LEV), explaining that the legal duty ‘to keep a suitable record of thorough examination and test’ lies with the employer and not with any service provider or consultant;

guidance on the principles of good practice has been removed from Schedule 2a of the ACOP and either repositioned next to the relevant regulation (e.g. Regulation 7) or will be made available separately on the HSE website; specialist terminology has been clarified where possible; and

information concerning worker involvement and consultation has been amended to be consistent with that in other ACOPs