A COSHH assessment template: Word, PDF or voice.
Anyone can download a COSHH template. The work is filling one in for every product. Here is what a template needs, and the quicker way to fill it.
- HSE requires no specific form for a COSHH assessment.
- A good template holds the substance, hazards, who is exposed, controls, protective equipment, emergencies, and the review date.
- Typing the same sheet into a form product by product is the slow part.
- Quickler fills your own Word form from the safety data sheet and what you say.
- Quickler does not supply a generic template. It fills yours.
HSE does not set a form
HSE requires no specific form for a COSHH assessment. Any template that records the substance, the risk, who is exposed, the controls and the review will do. The Word file is the easy part. Filling it in for each product is the slow part.
Three ways to fill the same form
Read the sheet, copy hazards, type the form.
Same copying, on a screen.
Send the sheet and say how it is used. It comes back as your own form.
Your form, filled for you
Quickler fills your own Word form from the safety data sheet and a voice note or text. Your headings, your wording and your logo stay as they are.
Fill your own COSHH form by voice.
Send one safety data sheet and see the Record. £75 a month per phone number, or £750 a year (2 months free). Unlimited free dashboard accounts.
What HSE asks forThe rule
|
HSE COSHH frequently asked questions: there is no specific form. Employers with five or more employees must record the significant findings, and the record must be available to safety representatives and inspectors. The steps, from HSE: how to carry out a COSHH risk assessment: identify the hazards, assess the risks, control the risks, inform and train, record, review. |
What a good template holdsThe form
|
The product and supplier. The hazards and their labelling. Who is exposed, by which route, for how long and how often. Workplace exposure limits where there are any (EH40/2005 workplace exposure limits). The controls, and protective equipment as the last resort: HSE says not to automatically opt for PPE. First aid, fire, spills and disposal. Who did the assessment, when, and when it is reviewed. |
Where the time goesThe cost
|
Safety data sheets run to many pages. Copying the right lines onto the right boxes, product after product, is typing, not judgement. The judgement is deciding whether the controls are enough for your task. |
Your own form, from a voice noteQuickler
|
Your firm has a COSHH Check built around your own Word form. Start it in WhatsApp, send the safety data sheet, say how the product is used, and say done. The form comes back filled in, named after the product, in your own layout. Read it, edit any word, and file it. It does not write the assessment for you: a competent person must read it. If something is not on the sheet and you did not say it, it stays blank. Write 10 COSHH records a month and that's £7.50 a record; at 30 a month it is £2.50 a record. Reports, photos and messages are unlimited. See inspection report templates and the COSHH guide. |
No. HSE requires no specific form. It asks that the assessment be suitable and that significant findings are recorded where you have five or more employees.
The substance, hazards, who is exposed and how, controls and protective equipment, emergency measures, the person who assessed it, the date and the review date.
Yes. Records come back in your own Word form, with your headings, wording and logo.
No. It fills your own form. It does not supply a generic one.
HSE requires a record of the assessment, not a particular way of making it. A completed, reviewed form is the record.