Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (Amendment) Regulations 2004
January 5, 2005
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (Amendment) Regulations 2004 (SI 2004 No. 3386) were laid before Parliament on 23 December 2004 and will amend three sets of existing health and safety regulations.
The three sets of regulations are:
- the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH)
- the Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2002 (CHIP)
- the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 2002 (CLAW).
The 2004 regulations will amend COSHH to prohibit the supply and use of cement and cement-containing preparations that contain, when hydrated, more than 0.0002% soluble chromium VI of the dry weight of the cement, except in certain fully automated and enclosed processes. They will also amend CHIP by adding a requirement to mark the packaging of cement, whose chromium VI content would exceed that limit but for the use of reducing agents, with certain information.
The regulations further amend the COSHH regulations by:
- excluding defined shipboard activities of ships’ crews from their operation, except for Navy ships
- substituting new requirements to observe principles of good practice for the control of exposure to substances hazardous to health
- introducing a single new workplace exposure limit for substances hazardous to health that replaces occupational exposure standards and maximum exposure limits
- introducing a duty to review control measures other than the provision of plant and equipment, including systems of work and supervision, at suitable intervals.
The regulations amend CLAW by excluding defined shipboard activities of ships’ crews, except for Navy ships, from their operation and by introducing a duty to review certain control measures at suitable intervals.
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