Under the current legislation, employers have a duty of care to protect both their workforce and the environment
from any harmful dust and fumes from substances used directly in work activities such as adhesives, paints,
cleaning agents or generated from their production processes such as dust from wood production, chemical
manufacture, fumes from welding, or naturally occurring substances such as grain, flour and silica dust or
biological agents such as bacteria and other micro-organisms.
Employers have to protect both employees and others who may be exposed by complying with the Control of
Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) (as amended). This will usually involve the use of
a Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) system. It is the employers’ duty to ensure that such control measures are
used by the workforce and are maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order, in good repair and in a
clean condition.
Under the current legislation, employers have a duty of care to protect both their workforce and the environment from any harmful dust and fumes from substances used directly in work activities such as adhesives, paints, cleaning agents or generated from their production processes such as dust from wood production, chemical manufacture, fumes from welding, or naturally occurring substances such as grain, flour and silica dust or biological agents such as bacteria and other micro-organisms.
Employers have to protect both employees and others who may be exposed by complying with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) (as amended). This will usually involve the use of a Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) system. It is the employers’ duty to ensure that such control measures are used by the workforce and are maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order, in good repair and in a clean condition.
Under the current legislation, employers have a duty of care to protect both their workforce and the environment
from any harmful dust and fumes from substances used directly in work activities such as adhesives, paints,
cleaning agents or generated from their production processes such as dust from wood production, chemical
manufacture, fumes from welding, or naturally occurring substances such as grain, flour and silica dust or
biological agents such as bacteria and other micro-organisms.
Employers have to protect both employees and others who may be exposed by complying with the Control of
Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) (as amended). This will usually involve the use of
a Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) system. It is the employers’ duty to ensure that such control measures are
used by the workforce and are maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order, in good repair and in a
clean condition.
