What is it?

Paints, adhesives, cleaners, cement, resins, fuels — if your team uses them, you’re managing hazardous substances. Under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) you must assess risks, control exposure, brief workers, and keep records.

This ready-to-use COSHH Template gives small builders, sole traders, and principal contractors a fast, professional way to create COSHH assessments, a substance inventory, and toolbox briefings without starting from scratch.

⚠️ Note: This template supports compliance but doesn’t replace specialist occupational hygiene advice where required.

Why You Need It:

1️⃣ Meet Your Legal Duties — Simply Create clear, consistent COSHH assessments for the substances you use (including site-mixed products) and show you’ve considered routes of exposure, controls, PPE/RPE, and emergency actions.
2️⃣ Control Exposure Before It Becomes a Problem Prompts for substitution, engineering controls (LEV, wet methods), work practices, and PPE/RPE help you reduce risk at source — not just tick boxes.
3️⃣ Make SDS Actually Useful Turn supplier Safety Data Sheets into practical, job-ready controls. The template maps SDS sections to what your crew needs to do on site.
4️⃣ Prove It. Every Time. Includes attendance register, briefing notes, and version control so you can show clients, auditors, and insurers that controls were communicated and are up to date.
5️⃣ Built for Real Jobs, Not Paperwork From small refurb projects to multi-trade sites: copy, adapt, and reuse assessments; keep an up-to-date substance inventory; and brief new starters in minutes.

What You Get:

✅ Fully editable Word document (DOCX)
✅ COSHH Assessment form (hazards, exposure routes, controls, PPE/RPE, emergency/first aid, environmental)
✅ Substance Inventory register (product, task, hazard statements, SDS link, storage, disposal)
✅ Toolbox Talk script to brief the team on specific substances/tasks
✅ RPE selection prompts (including APF notes and face-fit reminder)
✅ PPE matrix (eyes/skin/respiratory/hand protection by task)
✅ Storage & labelling checklist (including decanting rules)
✅ Spill & exposure response (eyes/skin/ingestion/inhalation quick steps)
✅ Housekeeping & waste (segregation, containers, wash-out areas)
✅ Monitoring prompts (when to air-monitor, health surveillance triggers)
✅ Attendance register & signature sheet
✅ Action log for follow-ups (e.g., damaged PPE, substitute product trials)
✅ Spaces for your logo, project, and date

Built for:

– Sole traders and small builders who use paints, adhesives, cleaners, cement/resins, fuels
– Principal contractors coordinating multi-trade projects
– Site supervisors who need credible, repeatable COSHH documentation and briefings
– Trades: decorators, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, tilers, groundworkers, general builders

Ready to turn COSHH from chaos into a clean process?

Grab the COSHH Template and create solid assessments and briefings in minutes — not hours.