COSHHn.
/kɒʃ/, U.S. /kɑʃ/ British.
Control of substances hazardous to health, a body of periodically updated regulations first introduced by the British Health and Safety Executive in 1988, for preventing or controlling the exposure of people in the workplace to substances that are (potentially) hazardous to health. Frequently attributive.
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1988 Min. Evid. Joint Comm. Statist. Instruments 13 Dec. 2/2 in Parl. Papers 1988–9 Let us take regulation 7(5)(b) of the COSHH Regulations, which we are considering.
1991 Professional Heating Sept. 35/1 Substances that cannot by their nature carry hazard symbols are also covered by COSHH. Examples of these are dusts and fumes in the workplace and micro-organisms such as viruses and bacteria.
1995 Financial Times (Nexis) 1 Dec. p. vi In the case of the glue sealer it was found that managers had not carried out adequate Coshh assessments and were using a safety data sheet that was out of date.
1998 Environmental Health News 5 June 7/2 HSE's guidance stresses a COSHH assessment as an essential first step for farmers wishing to open farms to school parties.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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