Posted By Jo Scott Smith I work in an office environment which has a small team of inhouse maintenance workers doing small one off works/minor repairs etc. My problem is how to devise a practical, workable, COSHH compliant assessment system for them. Quite often a job will be assessed and then a trip made to the local hardware store to buy an appropriate product to do the job. My reading of the COSHH regualtion leads me to understand that we should then obtain a MSDS for the product, do the assessment and then put control measures in place that are likely to be exactly the same as the instructions on the packaging. This is all very time consuming and troublesome for what otherwise could be a 10 minute job. How do people deal with this in practice? Thanks for your help.