COSHH Risk Assessment for Electricians
COSHH risk assessment for electricians — the sheet a sparky or a small electrical firm keeps for each substance the work brings: solder flux fume, expanding foam round the back boxes, silica dust from chasing and coring, PVC solvent cement on the conduit, contact cleaner, fire-stopping mastic, resin anchors for the tray, the insulation in the loft, the acid in an alarm panel battery. Pick the substance and the hazards, routes of exposure and the controls are written in from an electrician's library — thirteen substances, in the order the regulations rank the controls — with a review date and your signature. COSHH assessments for electricians on one A4 sheet per substance. 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 risk assessment for electricians' and you get the HSE's example for an electronics factory, a consultancy selling a COSHH pack for electrical contractors, a training site's policy page, a sample PDF and two trade magazine articles. Nothing you can fill in, and nothing that knows what an electrician actually handles — that the flux you solder with is a respiratory sensitiser, that the foam round a back box is isocyanate, that chasing a wall makes silica.
This one does. The library is an electrician's — flux fume, PU foam, silica from chasing and coring, PVC solvent cement, contact cleaner, fire-stopping sealant, resin anchors, plasterboard and wood dust from making good and lifting boards, mineral wool in lofts, penetrating sprays, the lead-acid batteries in alarm and emergency lighting panels, the generator on a first fix — with the controls that fit a domestic or small commercial job, editable, checked against the product's safety data sheet.
Assessment, substances, controls, sign-off
The assessment
Your firm, the site and the job, the date, and how often it is reviewed — the review date fills itself. Numbered COSHH-001, and the next one keeps your firm, assessor and signature.
One sheet per substance
Add a substance and pick it from the 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.
Controls, residual risk, sign-off
Eliminate or substitute, engineering controls, safe working procedure, PPE, RPE, health surveillance, storage, spillage and first aid, disposal. Set the residual risk, sign on screen, and each substance prints on its own A4 sheet.
Thirteen substances, in an electrician's words
Fume and vapour
Rosin flux fume (a respiratory sensitiser — asthma), PVC solvent cement on conduit (THF, flammable, drowsy in a void), contact and switch cleaner aerosols (extremely flammable, never on live parts), penetrating and cable-pulling sprays, the generator's exhaust on a first fix.
Dust
Silica from chasing, drilling and coring block and concrete — the WEL is 0.1 mg/m³ and dry chasing blows through it in minutes, so it is on-tool extraction and a face-fitted FFP3. Plasterboard and plaster dust from making good; MDF and wood dust from backboards and lifting floorboards; mineral wool in lofts and voids.
Pastes and resins
PU expanding foam round back boxes (isocyanates — asthma and sensitisation), fire-stopping sealant and intumescent mastic at penetrations, two-part resin anchors for tray and brackets (skin sensitisers).
Batteries
The sulphuric acid and lead in the lead-acid and VRLA batteries you change in fire alarm panels, emergency lighting and UPS units — corrosive, hydrogen on charge, and hazardous waste when they come out.
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 have been taken. Regulation 6 lists what the assessment considers: the substance's hazardous properties, the supplier's safety data sheet, the level, type and duration of exposure, how the work is done, any workplace exposure limit, the effect of the controls, and monitoring or health surveillance where they apply. Regulation 7 ranks the controls: prevention first, substitution and engineering measures next, PPE last.
A sole-trader electrician with no employees is not an employer under the regulations, but principal contractors, letting agents and commercial clients ask for the sheets regardless, and the controls are the ones that stop a chaser getting silicosis. Review the sheet regularly, and at once when the product, the method or the people change.
Everything the five sections record
Sits with the risk assessment, the method statement and the certificate
The risk assessment covers the job, the method statement says how it is done, the COSHH sheets cover the substances, and the certificate closes the work. A principal contractor's site file asks for the first three, and FieldHive has a free form for each — and for the certificates.
A record of your assessment, not the assessment itself
The library is FieldHive's summary of the usual hazards and controls for the substances an electrician uses. It is a starting point for your own assessment, not a substitute for the product's safety data sheet, the site, and your judgement. 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 →Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate
The certificate for the work the COSHH sheets covered.
certify the work →Construction COSHH Assessment Template
The same sheet with the full site library — cement, bitumen, acids and the rest.
the full library →COSHH questions electricians ask
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, certificate, invoice and payment connected for that customer — the COSHH sheet is the one thing it leaves to you.
