Bakers

Priced

• Flour dust EH72/11, ISBN 0 7176 2479 X, HSE Books.
• A baker’s dozen, thirteen essentials for health and safety in bakeries, HSG233, ISBN 0 7176 2616 4, HSE Books

• Guidance on dust control and health surveillance in bakeries, including interactive training package Breathe Easy (produced by trade associations, unions and HSE), Federation of Bakers

Free

• COSHH Essentials for the flour milling and craft bakery sector - Available from the COSHH Essentials web site
• Priorities for health and safety in the flour and grain milling industries FIS13 [PDF 52kb]

Vehicle spray painters

Free

• Safety in Motor Vehicle Repair: Working with 2-pack isocyanate paints - INDG388 [PDF 103kb]
• COSHH Essentials - motor vehicle repair - Available from the COSHH Essentials web site

Non-MVR sector

Priced

• Organic isocyanates in air ISBN 0 7176 1668 1, MDHS25/3, HSE Books.
• A new practical guide to complying with COSHH in the rubber industry ISBN 0 7176 1372 0, HSE Books.
• Safe use of and storage of cellular plastics HSG92 ISBN 0 7176 1115 9, HSE Books.

Free

• COSHH Essentials for Printers

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Solderers, e.g. in electronics

Priced

• Rosin based solder flux fume EH65/31, ISBN 0 7176 1441 7, HSE Books.

Free

• Solder fume and you, INDG248(rev) [PDF 303kb]
• Controlling health risks from rosin (colophony) based solder fluxes, INDG249 [PDF 82kb]
• Resin acids in rosin (colophony) solder flux fume ISBN 0 7176 1363 1, MDHS83,HSE Books.

Woodworkers

Priced

• Medium density fibreboard (MDF) EH75/1, ISBN 0 7176 1735 1, HSE Books.

Free

• COSHH Essentials - Available from the COSHH Essentials web site
• Wood dust WIS1REV1 [PDF 18kb]
• COSHH and the woodworking industries WIS6REV [PDF 24kb]
• Selection of respiratory protective equipment suitable for use with wood dust WIS14 [PDF 63kb]

Healthcare workers

Priced

• Glutaraldehyde EH65/32, ISBN 0 7176 1443 3, HSE Books.

Free

• Latex and you, INDG320 [PDF 181kb]
• HSE Latex website
• Glutaraldehyde in air MDHS93, ISBN 0 7176 1618 5, HSE Books.

Laboratory animal workers

Priced

• Control of laboratory animal allergy EH76 ISBN 07176 2450 1, HSE Books.

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Agriculture workers

Priced

• Grain dust EH66, ISBN 0 7176 1535 9, HSE Books.
• Grain dust in maltings (maximum exposure limits) EH67, ISBN 0118863576, HSE Books.

Free

• Grain dust in non-agricultural workplaces, INDG140
• Grain dust AIS3 [PDF 46kb]
• Farmer's lung AS5 [PDF 132kb]
• Health hazards from dusty cargoes during the loading and unloading of ships DIS2 [PDF 26kb]

See also section on grain dust on COSHH Essentials - easy steps to control chemicals ISBN 0 7176 2421 8, HSE Books. Also available for free on the internet

Engineering workers

Free

• Working safely with metalworking fluids: A guide for employees [PDF 62kb]

HSE general guidance

Priced

• The Health and Safety Commission's General COSHH Approved Code of Practice 'Control of Substances Hazardous to Health'. L5, ISBN 0 7176 2534 6, HSE Books.
• Respiratory protective equipment - a practical guide for users. HSG53, ISBN 0 7176 1537 5, HSE Books.
• Video - A matter of life and breath, ISBN 0 7176 1859 5, HSE Books.
• Health surveillance under COSHH, ISBN 0 7176 0491 8, HSE Books.
• Medical aspects of occupational asthma, MS25, ISBN 0 7176 1547 2, HSE Books.
• COSHH Essentials - easy steps to control chemicals ISBN 0 7176 2421 8, HSE Books.
• Also available free on the internet.
• A step by step guide to COSHH assessment ISBN 0 7176 1446 8, HSE Books.
• Health surveillance at work HSG61, ISBN 0 7176 1705 X, HSE Books.

Free

• Asthmagen? Critical assessments of the evidence for agents implicated in occupational asthma. Also known as the 'Asthmagen Compendium' [PDF 1.6MB]
• Respiratory sensitisers and COSHH - Breathe freely, INDG95 [PDF 27kb]
• Breathe freely, a worker's information card (INDG 172)
• COSHH a brief guide to the regulations INDG136(rev2) [PDF 80kb]
• Health and Safety Statistics
• Health Survelliance for Occupational Asthma [PDF 29kb]

More guidance on asthma produced by HSE and other organisations

• 'Exposure to inhalable dust, wheat flour and a-amylase allergens in industrial and traditional bakeries', published in the The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, vol 48, No 1 January 2004 (pages 57-63)
• Measurement of exposure to isocyanates published by British Occupational Health Research Foundation (BOHRF)