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COSHH & Compliance
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health, and the records a cleaning contractor needs to keep.
Staff compliance records: what a cleaning contractor needs to keep and for how long
Right to work, COSHH training, DBS where it applies. The individual checks are well understood; keeping them all current for a shifting team is the actual challenge.
23 February 2026 · 5 min readBuilding a COSHH audit checklist your supervisors will actually use
A checklist that lives in a folder gets filled in once and forgotten. One a supervisor can run through on a five-minute site visit is the one that actually catches drift.
15 February 2026 · 4 min readThe chemical mixing risks that keep showing up in cleaning incident reports
Bleach and an acidic descaler, stored a shelf apart out of habit rather than assessment. The incidents that make it into reports are usually this ordinary.
7 February 2026 · 5 min readRight to work checks for cleaning staff: what the Home Office actually requires
Cleaning has high staff turnover and, often, agency cover — which makes right to work one of the easiest compliance obligations to let slip without noticing.
30 January 2026 · 5 min readCOSHH training for cleaning staff: what "trained" actually needs to mean
A certificate from three years ago isn't the same as a team that knows what's in the bottle they're using today. The gap between the two is where audits find problems.
22 January 2026 · 5 min readWriting COSHH risk assessments for cleaning tasks that hold up to scrutiny
A COSHH assessment copied across every site with the product name changed isn't really an assessment. Here's what makes one specific enough to be useful.
14 January 2026 · 4 min readSafety data sheets: what to keep on file and where
An SDS folder that's technically complete but three products out of date isn't compliance, it's a filing exercise. Here's what actually needs to be current.
6 January 2026 · 5 min readCOSHH for cleaning contractors: what the regulations actually require
COSHH gets treated as a training certificate to file away. The regulations actually ask for an ongoing assessment process, and that's the part audits tend to catch out.