Following the 2-year grace period of the June 2015 deadline for the changeover from CHIP Regulations, the CLP Regulation is now the standard.

All businesses should now be complaint with CLP, and with the latest Regulations came updated, internationally recognised symbols.

When a workplace frequently uses chemicals, or creates substances that are hazardous to health through a work process then everyone on-site must immediately be able to know and recognise the COSHH symbols and their meanings.

COSHH symbols must be clearly visible and instantly convey the correct warning pertaining to the use, storage and transport of a substance.

..It is your sole responsibility to ensure your employees are informed of the knowledge they need to safeguard each other, and your business.

When a trainee who is deemed 'competent' actually creates what the company thinks is an adequate assessment, they are wrong.

Some of the new international COSHH symbols are similar to the older symbols from CHIP. The most obvious change is the symbols are now black icons, on white and bordered with red. This is a big change from the dated orange and black symbols.

This Danger Explosives Sign is perfect for use as a warning sign where explosive materials are stored. Designed to be used outside or inside in a wide range of situations on farms, estates, factories, warehouses and other places where explosives are stored, it is fully waterproof and is used to inform and warn people of a potential hazard , that may be present and care should be exercised. The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996, recommend that where a risk cannot be completely removed a suitable warning sign should be displayed to warn people of a possible danger.

Each symbol is also accompanied by either a 'danger' or 'warning' phrase to assist in alerting a person to the presence of a hazardous substance.

Because we use them every day we gloss over the dangers, we tell ourselves we know how to use them correctly and so there is no danger.