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COSHH assessment

Drop in the product's own safety data sheet. KASQ reads it, places the product in HSE's hazard group, and builds the assessment around the task you describe.

No card, no expiry. Looking needs no account — using does.

In the office

KASQ reads the parts of the data sheet that matter — the product, its composition, the hazards, the exposure controls and the physical properties — and checks every hazard code it found against the words on the sheet; a code it cannot find there stops the read. From those codes it puts the product in HSE's hazard group and, with how much you use and how dusty or volatile it is, works out the control approach exactly as the COSHH essentials tables do — a look-up, not an opinion, and the more cautious cell where the tables disagree.

Then you add the task: what is being done, where, by whom, how often and for how long, what controls are already there, and who is assessing. The sheet lists each constituent with its GB workplace exposure limit from EH40 where one is listed.

On site

The assessment is printed, in English, and kept where the product is used, with the data sheet beside it. It carries a line for the assessor and a line for the competent person who reviews and approves it — work starts after that signature, not before.

What it costs

One run counts as 10 of the Free plan's 30 questions a month — about 3 a month, free, no card. Two steps: reading the data sheet counts as 5, the assessment as 5 more. All plans and prices →