COSHH Essentials: Printing industry
Includes information intended to help employers in the printing industry comply with the requirements of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH).
Lithographic
- (P1) Manual film and plate development
- (P2) Automatic film and plate development
- (P3) Ink mixing
- (P4) Printing with conventional inks
- (P5) Manual cleaning of presses (which use conventional inks)
- (P6) Automated cleaning of presses (which use conventional inks)
- (P7) Printing with UV-curable inks and coatings
- (P8) Manual cleaning of presses (which use UV-curable inks and coatings)
- (P9) Automated cleaning of presses (which use UV-curable inks and coatings)
- (P10) Printing with cold set inks
- (P11) Manual cleaning of presses (which use cold set inks)
- (P12) Automated cleaning of presses (which use cold set inks)
- (P13) Printing with heat set inks
- (P14) Manual cleaning of presses (which use heat set inks)
- (P15) Automated cleaning of presses (which use heat set inks)
Screen
- (P16) Using isocyanate based adhesives in frame making
- (P17) Stencil generation
- (P18) Ink mixing and colour matching
- (P19) Printing with lower volatility inks and rack drying
- (P20) Printing with higher volatility inks and extracted rack drying
- (P21) High volume printing with oven drying
- (P22) Printing with UV-curable inks
- (P23) Printing with isocyanate based inks
- (P24) Manual screen reclamation
- (P25) Automated screen reclamation
Gravure
Flexographic
- (P31) Making photopolymer plates
- (P32) Mixing solvent-borne inks
- (P33) Printing with solvent-borne inks
- (P34) Mixing UV-curable inks
- (P35) Printing with UV-curable inks