Construction COSHH Assessment Template
Construction COSHH assessment template — the sheet a small building or trade firm keeps for each substance its people use: what it is, the hazards from the safety data sheet, who is exposed and how, the controls in the order the regulations expect, the residual risk and a review date. Thirteen site substances come pre-filled from a trade library — cement, silica dust, MDF, expanding foam, solvent paints, flux fume, diesel exhaust, bitumen, plaster, insulation, brick acid, epoxies, oils — so the job is checking against the product's data sheet rather than starting from a blank box. Free, no sign-up.
1 Assessment
2 Substances — one sheet each; pick from the library or start blank
3 Assessed by
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Search 'coshh assessment template' and you get the HSE's example assessments, a construction checklist that is not an assessment, CITB's blank PDF, a university's form, and downloads from four consultancies. Every one of them starts empty. A plasterer who wants a sheet for gypsum dust, an electrician for flux fume, a builder for cement and silica, has to write the hazards and the controls from scratch on each — or copy someone else's and hope.
This one starts full. Pick the substance from the trade library and the hazards, the routes of exposure, the engineering controls, the procedure, the PPE and RPE, the storage and the disposal are written in — as a starting point to check against the product's safety data sheet, which is what the regulations expect you to do anyway.
Assessment, substances, controls, sign-off
The assessment
Your company, the site and the activity, the date, and how often it is reviewed — the review date fills itself. Numbered COSHH-001, and the next one keeps your company, assessor and signature.
One sheet per substance
Add a substance and pick it from the trade library, or start blank. The product, supplier and data sheet date; the pictograms on the label; the hazards; the task, the people and the routes of exposure; frequency and duration. Everything editable.
Controls, residual risk, sign-off
Eliminate or substitute, engineering controls, safe working procedure, PPE, RPE, health surveillance, storage, spillage and first aid, disposal — in the order the regulations rank them. Set the residual risk, sign on screen, and each substance prints on its own A4 sheet.
Regulation 6 — a suitable and sufficient assessment
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 say an employer must not carry out work liable to expose employees to a substance hazardous to health unless a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risk has been made and the steps needed to comply with the regulations have been taken. Regulation 6 lists what the assessment considers: the hazardous properties of the substance, the information on health effects from the supplier's safety data sheet, the level, type and duration of exposure, the circumstances of the work including the amount used, activities such as maintenance where exposure is higher, any workplace exposure limit, the effect of the controls, the results of monitoring and health surveillance, and the risk from combined substances. Regulation 7 then ranks the controls: prevention first, then substitution and engineering measures, with PPE last.
The sheet follows that order. The assessment must be reviewed regularly, and at once if there is reason to think it is no longer valid or the work changes significantly — new product, new method, new people — which is why the review date is on the front and the trade library is only a starting point. Sole traders with no employees are not employers under the regulations, but the duty to others on site and the practical value of the sheet are the same.
Everything the five sections record
Thirteen site substances, pre-filled
Dusts
Cement, mortar and concrete; respirable crystalline silica from cutting block, concrete and tile; MDF and hardwood dust; plaster and plasterboard; mineral wool insulation. Each carries the exposure limit, the on-tool extraction or water suppression, and the FFP3 line.
Fumes
Rosin flux fume from soldering; diesel exhaust from generators and plant; bitumen and hot roofing products. The controls are about where the work happens and what runs indoors, not just masks.
Liquids and aerosols
Solvent-based paints, primers and contact adhesive; PU expanding foam; two-pack epoxies and resins; brick acid, drain cleaner and descaler; oils, greases and fuels. Skin sensitisers and corrosives get the glove and eyewash lines.
Your own
Start a blank sheet for anything else — a specific product, a cleaning chemical, a gas. The form is the same; the library is a shortcut, not a limit.
Sits with the risk assessment, the method statement and the toolbox talk
The risk assessment covers the job, the method statement says how it is done, the COSHH sheet covers the substances, and the toolbox talk tells the crew. A principal contractor's site file asks for all four, and FieldHive has a free form for each.
A record of your assessment, not the assessment itself
The library is FieldHive's summary of the usual hazards and controls for common site substances. It is a starting point for the employer's own assessment, not a substitute for reading the product's safety data sheet, knowing the site, and deciding the controls that fit the work. It is not health and safety advice, and it does not cover exposure monitoring, face-fit testing or health surveillance programmes — those need a competent person.
The FieldHive app does not do COSHH assessments. This is a free standalone form. The PDF is free with no sign-up; the editable Word version and the logo upload unlock with an email.
Turn it into a connected job workflow
FieldHive keeps the enquiry, quote, job, invoice and payment connected — so it's built from the accepted quote instead of retyped, and the numbers carry through.
Other free tools for your trade
More FieldHive document tools — and the calculators behind the figures.
Risk Assessment Generator
The hazards of the job as a whole — the COSHH sheets hang off it.
assess the job →Method Statement Generator
How the work is done, including the controls the COSHH sheet decided.
write the method →Toolbox Talk Template
Tell the crew about the dust, the fume and the foam before they start.
brief the crew →Construction Waste Transfer Note Template
The disposal line in practice — the note for the waste and empties leaving site.
record the transfer →COSHH assessment questions
Quick answers to the questions people ask most.
The COSHH sheet is one line in the job
The assessment goes in the site file, the job carries on. FieldHive keeps the enquiry, quote, job, invoice and payment connected for that customer — the COSHH assessment is the one thing it leaves to you.
