Be able to handle hazardous substances and materials
Create a list of the hazardous substances you use at home and find out how they should be properly stored and used, and disposed of.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Working with substances hazardous to health: What you need to know about COSHH’ by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
- 'Hazardous substances’ webpage on the Health Working Lives website
- ‘Healthcare’ webpage on the HSE website
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Visit the website of the Health and Safety Executive by clicking on the web icon to the left and find out more about hazardous substances and how they are labelled
- Create a list of the hazardous substances you use at home and find out how they should be properly stored and used, and disposed of.
- Complete an audit of your work area and check whether your setting has COSHH data sheets for all the products you find. Raise any concerns with your manager
- Click to read ‘Health-care waste’ on the World Health Organisation (WHO) website.
- Click to access a list of hazards that can be found in a nursing home, divided by room, on the Health and Safety Authority website.
- Click to read ‘Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)’ on the QCS website
- Click to read ‘Management of healthcare waste’ on the HSE website.
- Think And Challenge
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