Publications
COSHH publications:
- Chemicals
- Metals
- COSHH Essentials publications
- Working with substances hazardous to health: A brief guide to COSHH
- GN EH76 - Control of laboratory animal allergy
- Health surveillance for those exposed to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) - Guidance for occupational health professionals
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Approved Code of Practice.
- A step by step guide to COSHH assessment
- EH40/2005 Workplace exposure limits
Archived research reports
Archived COSHH research reports available through the UK Government Web Archive:
- Ways for SMEs to assess and control risks from hazardous substances
- Occupational lung disease in ferrous foundry workers
- Dioxin exposure from work related activities
- Cancer risk following exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): a meta-analysis
- Effective communication of chemical hazard and risk information using a multimedia safety data sheet
- An assessment of skin sensitisation by the use of epoxy resin in the construction industry
- Cellular aspects of occupational asthma: Immunological studies in isocyanate exposed subjects
- Shift work and breast cancer: a critical review of the epidemiological evidence
- In vitro determinants of particulate toxicity: The dose-metric for poorly soluble dusts
- The development of risk reduction strategies for the prevention of dermatitis in the UK printing industry
- The role of occupational exposure limits in the health and safety systems of EU Member States
- Inter-individual variability in the interpretation of biological monitoring guidance values
- Further update of cancer incidence and cancer mortality in a cohort of semiconductor workers
- Nanoparticles: An occupational hygiene review
- Development of a field method for the assessment of the effectiveness of barrier creams in preventing skin irritation reactions
- An occupational hygiene assessment of the use and control of isocyanates in the UK
- Benchmarking employee supervisory processes in the chemical industry
- Enhancing chemical risk control for reducing exposure in the workplace through advanced risk messaging techniques
- Genetic variation in susceptibility to chronic effects of organophosphate exposure
- Evidence base for identifying potential failures in the specification, use and maintenance of PPE at work
- A methodology to prioritise substances for possible further development of Acute Exposure Threshold Levels (AETLs)
- Routes of referral for occupational asthma
- The true cost of occupational asthma in Great Britain
- Isocyanate exposure, emission and control in small motor vehicle repair premises using spray rooms: Phase 1
- An inventory of fibres to classify their potential hazard and risk
- Use of chemical protective gloves to control dermal exposures in the uv lithographic printing sub-sector
- Products evolved during hot gas welding of fluoropolymers
- The HSE grain dust study - workers exposure to grain dust contaminants, immunological and clinical response
- Inadvertent ingestion exposure in the workplace
- The causative factors of dermatitis among workers exposed to metalworking fluids
- The burden of occupational cancer in Great Britain - RR595
- Irritancy and sensitisation
- Occupational asthma, respiratory issues and dermatitis in hairdressers and nail bars
- Health and safety in nail bars
- Exposure to dust and bioaerosols in poultry farming: Summary of observations and data
- Parental occupational chemical exposures and childhood cancer
- Silica baseline survey
- An exploratory study of occupational health risks for beauty therapists who carry out massage and spray tanning treatments
- MALDI/TOF/MS analysis of isocyanates and other hazardous workplace chemicals
- COSHH and current practice
- An automated system for indicating spray clearance times of MVR spray booths and rooms
- Review of occupational hygiene reports on suitability of respiratory protective equipment (RPE)
- Hazards of liquid hydrogen: Position paper
- A small survey of exposure to stainless steel welding fume
- Prospective cohort study of sheep dip exposure and 'dipper's flu'
- Investigation of potential exposure to carcinogens and respiratory sensitisers during thermal
- processing of plastics
- Factors influencing the implementation of RPE programmes in the workplace
- The burden of occupational cancer in Great Britain - RR800
- Determining current health and safety practices, awareness of HSE initiatives and economic trends in relation to isocyanate paint use in the motor vehicle repair sector
- Health surveillance - a time for change? Workshop proceedings 07/08 July 2009
- A small survey of exposure to rubber process dust, rubber fume and N-nitrosamines