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The CLP Regulation

How hazardous substances harm people, how exposure is controlled and what the Chemical Agents Regulations require in Ireland.

The CLP Regulation is the European law on the classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals. It requires every hazardous product to carry a label with red diamond pictograms, a signal word, hazard statements that describe the harm and precautionary statements that say how to avoid it.

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The COSHH Regulations are UK law and do not apply in Ireland. The equivalent Irish law is the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Chemical Agents) Regulations 2001 to 2021, with separate regulations for carcinogens. The duties are much the same, which is why the word COSHH is widely used here.

Yes, if they carry a hazard label and are used at work. The assessment can be short: what the product is, what its label and data sheet say, who uses it and how, and the precautions, such as dilution, ventilation, gloves and storage. Bleach, oven cleaner and descaler all need one.

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Every module comes from licensed, Chartered (CMIOSH) consultants who know exactly what Irish inspectors check on inspection day.

That experience shows: routes of entry explained with real cases, control measures that work in a busy workplace, Safety Data Sheets decoded line by line and storage rules that prevent the accidents inspectors see most often. Real Irish workplace examples make each lesson practical rather than academic.

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Almost every business. The Chemical Agents Regulations apply the moment any hazardous substance is used or generated in a workplace, and that includes cleaning chemicals, cooking fumes, dusts from sanding or baking, welding fumes, solvents, sprays and gases. The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 requires employers to provide the information and training needed to work with them safely.

In practice, the people taking this course with us are cleaners, chefs, hairdressers, nail technicians, mechanics, welders, printers, farmers, factory operatives, construction crews and healthcare staff, plus the owners and managers responsible for their safety.

If your workplace has a single bottle of industrial cleaner, this training is for you, and our Irish support team can help roll it out across every location.

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The CLP Regulation

How hazardous substances harm people, how exposure is controlled and what the Chemical Agents Regulations require in Ireland.

The CLP Regulation

CLP is Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures. It requires suppliers to classify their products for hazards and to put a standard label on the container.

  • The product name and the supplier.
  • Red bordered diamond pictograms, nine in all, such as the flame, the corrosion symbol and the exclamation mark.
  • A signal word: Danger for the more severe hazards, Warning for the less severe.
  • Hazard statements, beginning with H, that say what the harm is.
  • Precautionary statements, beginning with P, that say how to avoid it.

The label is the first source of information about a product. The safety data sheet, required by the REACH Regulation, gives the detail in sixteen sections.

Examples of hazardous substances

  • Cleaning products: bleach, oven cleaner, descaler, disinfectants.
  • Paints, solvents, adhesives and sealants.
  • Dusts: wood, flour, silica from stone and concrete, cement.
  • Fumes and gases: welding fume, vehicle exhaust, carbon monoxide.
  • Oils, fuels and metalworking fluids.
  • Pesticides and veterinary medicines.
  • Hair, beauty and nail products.
  • Biological agents: bacteria, moulds, blood and body fluids, covered by regulations of their own.

A substance does not need a hazard label to be hazardous. Dust and fume created by the work itself, such as flour dust in a bakery, are covered as well.

The Irish regulations

The Chemical Agents Regulations 2001 to 2021 apply wherever hazardous chemical agents are present or used at work. The employer must:

  • find out which hazardous chemical agents are present,
  • assess the risk to employees and record it in writing,
  • prevent exposure, or where that is not reasonably practicable, control it,
  • keep exposure below the occupational exposure limit values in the HSA code of practice,
  • provide information, training and safety data sheets,
  • arrange health surveillance where the assessment calls for it,
  • have procedures for accidents, incidents and emergencies.

Substances that cause cancer, damage genes or harm fertility are covered by the stricter Carcinogens, Mutagens and Reprotoxic Substances Regulations 2024.

Controlling exposure

  1. Eliminate: stop using the substance, or change the process so it is not produced.
  2. Substitute: use a safer product, or a safer form such as pellets in place of powder.
  3. Enclose: keep the substance inside closed equipment.
  4. Extract: capture dust and fume at the point where they are released.
  5. Organise: fewer people exposed, for less time, with good housekeeping and washing facilities.
  6. Protect: gloves, eye protection, coveralls and respirators for the risk that remains.

The order is set by the regulations. Protective equipment is acceptable as the main control only where nothing higher in the list is reasonably practicable.

Know what you use

The label and the safety data sheet say what a substance can do and how to handle it.

Assess in writing

Every hazardous chemical agent in the workplace needs a written risk assessment.

Control at source

Replace, enclose and extract first. Gloves and masks come last.

The accredited COSHH Course covers hazard labels, safety data sheets, the assessment and the controls in about an hour online, with a CPD certified certificate the moment you pass.