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REPORT ON SAFETY REGULATIONS AND COSHH Introduction COSHH stands for `Control of Substances Hazardous to Health. This was introduced in 1988. It was necessary to introduce the Health and Safety at Work Act because people had no protection of hazards at work. People had no protection of hazards at work. People had to work and accept that hazardous risks were part of the job. People got illnesses such as pneumoconiosis, which is exposure to coal dust (miners). Farm workers were infected by microorganisms from hay and straw known as farmer's lung. Workers in the days before COSHH was introduced didn't even know that the workplace could harm them, unaware that there were risks. The Health and Safety at Work Act was introduced in 1974. COSHH regulations were necessary in the workplace because harm that could be done to people by physical hazards was not covered in the Work Act 1974 and so...

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