COSHH and your industry

How does COSHH affect you in your industry?

Select your industry to view key messages and how COSHH affects you.

• Agriculture
  eg dusts, chemicals, diseases, toxic gases.
• Baking
  eg dusts, enzymes, flavour concentrates, cleaning products.
• Beauty
  eg products that cause skin irritation, allergies and asthma, acrylic fumes.
• Catering
  eg products that cause dermatitis, skin allergies, asthma, fumes.
• Cleaning
  eg products that cause dermatitis, allergies and asthma, corrosive products.
• Engineering
  eg dusts, fumes, chemicals, germs in metalworking fluids.
• Hairdressing
  eg products that cause dermatitis, allergies, asthma.
• Printing
  eg products that can cause dermatitis,skin allergies and asthma, corrosive products, solvent vapours, ingredients that can cause damage to internal organs over a long period of time.
• Motor vehicle repair
  eg paints, fuels, brake fluid, lubricants, degreasing fluids, cleaning products, welding and cutting fumes, dusts, battery acid.
• Welding
  eg fumes, dust, chemicals, work in confined spaces, inert gases.
• Woodworking
  eg dusts, adhesives, paints, stripping fluids, lubricants, disinfectants to treat water systems.