COSHH Risk Assessment Step 8: Ensure that employees are properly informed, trained and supervised

Instruction, training and supervision

You must give your employees and those doing work for your business, such as contractors and agency staff, information on:

• Hazardous substances — the names, risks, exposure limits, severity of hazard, safety data sheets, relevant legislation
• Findings of the risk assessments — the likelihood, type, severity and risks of exposure
• Factors that may increase the risks, such as smoking
• Precautions that should be taken
• Prevention and control measures, their purpose, and how and when to use them
• PPE, the reasons for its use, and how and when to use it
• Results of any monitoring
• Employees' duty to go to any health surveys or training, the collective results (in a form that doesn't identify individuals) and how they can look at their own records
• Any emergency procedures

You must also train them on how to use the control equipment/processes and the PPE and what to do during emergency procedures.