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Hi, I'm doing a COSHH Assessment for a dental practice, what is the most up to date regulations that I should following when doing the assessments? Thanks
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The most up to date regulation is the Control of Substance Hazard to health Regulations 2002, and associated ACoP L5. Also depending on material or process the risk assessment will also be covered in if there are any regulations governing this for example Risk assessment (COSHH) is covered in Control of Lead regulations.
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With the greatest of respect if you don't know the regulations are you sure you are competent to do this work?
If you decide you are then it's
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002(as amended)
Sometimes you will see these wrongly described as COSHH 2004 as that was when the amendment's were made.
Brian
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I don't see what's wrong with asking what the current regs are with the intention of following them - sounds sensible to me.
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quote=brian hagyard]Kazhod
With the greatest of respect if you don't know the regulations are you sure you are competent to do this work?
Brian One of the prime directives we are taught when setting out on the path of safety (My wife's a Trekkie and yes I've been brainwashed) is when you don't know / not sure is to ask and if its' outside our field of knowledge to say so. So Kaz has asked = following protocol, what has not been indicated is the knowledge side. Until we know this we should not criticise. Badger
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Thank you for your feed back, I did know the regulations but there has been alot of new guidance lately with regards to Dental Practices and I just wanted to be sure that what I thought was current - still was.
Asking for confirmation was just my way of checking whether these changes had affected the regulations as there is always going to be people out there with more experience than me.
Kaz
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To those posters who have questioned my comment.
Which is why I said "with respect" as I had no Knowledge of Kazhos' expertise you will also note that I supplied the information requested. I personally feel that COSHH is one of the hardest pieces of legislation for a general practitioner to follow. We frequently see reports of issues with Hazard Data sheets and the fact the many are inaccurate and are actually designed for Chip and not COSHH. I would direct anyone to the excellent post by such people as Chris Packam on this forum about the dangers of not actually understanding COSHH.
I frequently ask for guidance and I have no issue with that, but Kazhod in your reply you state there has been a lot of new guidance with regards to Dental Practices, I would offer no advice on dental practices as I have never dealt with them. But your original question was "I'm doing a COSHH Assessment for a dental practice, what is the most up to date regulations that I should following when doing the assessments", not about guidance on applying this in a dental practice. For me I just find it a concern that people don't even know the basic regulations when undertaking work.
Brian
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Not knowing the regs before undertaking the work would indeed be a problem - hence, presumably, the wish to get the current regs, so eliminating that problem.
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Don't forget to evaluate the replacement regs for CHIP and some REACH areas; as some signage and terminology has changed and is to change
I feel that all the comments made herein are valid especially about competence as for too long none H&S people have been picking brains without realising the consequences / nor caring in some circumstances
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cant a man ask a simple question anymore?
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Quote=kazhod]Hi, I'm doing a COSHH Assessment for a dental practice, what is the most up to date regulations that I should following when doing the assessments? Thanks Now this may just have been a badly worded question, and I freely admit to doing that myself at times, but for me it could be read that someone had already agreed to do a COSHH Assessment but did not even know what the regulations were. This is a great site for advice I use it all the time, but for finding out what the current COSHH regulation are I can think of better ways. Or lets put it another way. I know about the existence of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, I have even read Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007. (CDM) Approved Code of Practice, L144 and looked at the appropriate pages of the HSE web site. Does that make me competent to offer my services as The CDM co-ordinator? I have not even had to ask what the regulations were but as I have never worked on a building project in my life I would say NO! Brian
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Chris.Packham wrote:However, don't necessarily follow the HSE approach on latex as this is now out of date. There is nothing wrong with single use latex gloves providing they are low free protein and unpowdered.
Chris Hi Chris, would you mind explain this for me please? I've always been under the impression that any latex gloves powdered or not should be avoided due to the potential of adverse skin reaction, particularly for those persons already sensitised? Thanks :)
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To explain in detail I would have to make an extremely long posting, so I suggest that if you PM me with your e-mail I will be happy to send you the information that shows quite clearly that the so-called latex allergy epidemic was limited to the powdered, high free protein single use natural rubber latex gloves and that unpowdered, low free protein single use glove represent no significant risk of latex allergy. As far as reusable natural rubber latex gloves, e.g. those that cleaners, dish-washers, etc. might wear, there has never been any significant risk of type I allergy to latex proteins.
Chris
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