Achieve COSHH Compliance Effortlessly with VISION

20th May 2025

Stay compliant with ease – VISION simplifies COSHH assessments for safer workplaces.

Achieve COSHH Compliance Effortlessly with VISION

Managing Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) assessments is a vital part of ensuring workplace safety and legal compliance. Yet, traditional methods often make the process cumbersome and prone to error. Enter VISION - a game changing health and safety software designed to streamline COSHH compliance and help businesses take control of hazardous substances with ease.

 

Why are COSHH assessments essential?

COSHH regulations are in place to protect workers from harmful substances in the workplace. Whether you are handling chemicals, interacting with biological agents, or completing a process resulting in dust and fumes, proper assessments are required. These ensure that risks are identified, evaluated and controlled effectively. Failing to comply can result in serious health risks, legal consequences, and financial penalties. You can learn more about what is required as part of your COSHH assessments in our ‘Ensuring Workplace Safety - Understanding COSHH assessments blog.

 

The Challenges of Traditional COSHH Management

Many businesses still rely on paper-based records, or outdated spreadsheets for their COSHH assessments. This approach is not only time-consuming but also increases the risk of human error and lost documentation. Without a streamlined process, staying compliant can feel overwhelming.

 

How VISION simplifies COSHH Compliance

VISION transforms the way businesses handle COSHH assessments. Our COSHH assessment module centralises all your data, making it easy to create, manage and access assessments in one place. There is a legal requirement to complete an assessment for each COSHH item, and depending on your workplace, this could require hundreds of assessments to be reviewed, completed and renewed. With its intuitive interface you can quickly choose and complete pre-prepared assessments, with options to customise, allowing you to become compliant in minutes!

COSHH Assessment Module Features

VISION's COSHH Module has a dashboard that clearly shows the status of the COSHH Assessments.

These are communicated effectively with Red highlighting Overdue, Yellow for Due in 30 Days, Green for In Date, and Blue for In Progress.

This COSHH compliance software from VISION enables you to keep on top of your COSHH assessments.

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COSHH Assessment Detail

 No more juggling spreadsheets or paper trails. With VISION, every COSHH assessment is digitally centralised, securely stored, and effortlessly manageable. From assessor signatures to calculated risk scores, everything you need is on one screen - clearly presented, easy to update, and instantly accessible.

Features shown in this view:

  • Version Tracking
  • Digital Assessor Signature
  • Risk Calculation
  • Smart Review Scheduling
  • Clear visibility of persons at risk.
  • Instant access to supporting documents.

The VISION COSHH Assessment module is compliance driven - keeping your business aligned with UK HSE regulations without the paperwork burden. 

  • Centralised Document Management -upload Safety Data Sheets (SDS) directly. 
  • Persons At Risk - toggle to identify those potentially exposed.

By having the Safety Data Sheets directly linked to the COSHH assessment streamlines documentation and ensures critical safety information is always accessible. Additionally, your assessments can be managed across multiple sites, but with a centralised storage point - vitally important for inspections or incident response. 

 

Environmental Considerations, Routes of Entry and Workplace Exposure Limits

When it comes to managing hazardous substances, clarity, consistency, and accuracy are non-negotiable. VISION takes the guesswork out of compliance. From exposure limits to first aid responses, every field is purpose-built to ensure health, safety and legal compliance without the paperwork overhead.  

Key Benefits of COSHH Assessment module interface:

  • Environmental Notes: Embed real-world controls (like LEV checks or PPE usage) directly into the assessment, ensuring site-specific relevance.
  • Routes of Entry Toggles: Instantly see which methods of exposure apply (inhalation, ingestion - visual feedback improves user understanding and accuracy)
  • Workplace Exposure Limits (WEL/STEL): Capture and display regulated exposure data for full HSE alignment - critical for employee health and legal protection.

  • Built-In First Aid Guidance: Standardised emergency instructions are stored directly within the assessment, reducing response time in the event of an incident.
  • Firefighting Info at a glance: Essential response details (e.g CO2 for fire suppression) stored securely and accessibly.

This image of the VISION COSHH module showcases the structured and interactive form where users can input critical safety data such as long-term and short-term exposure limits, first aid procedures, and firefighting information. 

VISION transforms complex COSHH data into clear, compliant, and actionable insights to empower you to protect and safe guard people.

Hazard Pictograms, Statements and PPE

VISION COSHH Assessment Module has pre-populated pick lists that allow you to select the appropriate features.

  • Hazard Pictograms - instantly communicates the type of risk associated with the substances. The visual cues allow employees quickly recognise dangers and take appropriate action, even if language barriers exist. 
  • Precautionary statements - provides clear instructions on how to handle substances safely. This reduces human error by guiding users on safe handling, storage, and disposal.
  • Hazard Statements - clearly describes the nature and severity of hazards. Enhances awareness and ensures everyone handling a substance fully understands its risks. 
  • PPE - Personal Protective Equipment - Ensures that staff are adequately protected without over- or under-equipping, streamining procurement and boosting compliance. 

Clear images to pick from speeds up the COSHH assessment creation process and reduces the chance of selecting incorrect icons. This allows for efficient onboarding and training for new staff, faster assessment completion, and a professional presentation of safety documentation for audits. Additionally hazardous substance management is incredibly important in maintaining the safety of your team. 

COSHH Assessment Sign Off Sheet

The Sign Off Sheet clean, structured and secure digital log of employee acknowledgements, including names, job titles, dates of signature, and digital signatures. All entries are time-stamped and version-controlled to capture them for full traceability, accountability and audit-ready.

  • Instant Digital Signatures: No more chasing physical paperwork. Employees can sign off directly within the system, even on-site.
  • Audit-Ready Records: Automatically logs who has read and acknowledged safety assessments - with dates and signatures for full accountability.
  • Version Control: Ensures the correct COSHH version is signed, preventing outdated information from being used.
  • User-Friendly Workflow: Add or select employees in seconds, with the ability to export as PDF or print instantly.
VISION complete sign off sheet with digital signatures, version controls and audit ready records.

Key benefits of using VISION for COSHH Assessments

  • Increased Accuracy: Automated process (including 'picklists' to choose common elements) reduces the chance of human error or incorrect duplications. 
  • Time-saving: Say goodbye to repetitive paperwork and manual data entry. Existing templates that can be replicated and edited, and also prompt for the correct data to be entered.
  • Improved Compliance: Stay up to date with progress-tracking dashboards that give clear 'status' colours, highlighting which needs attention and ensures your documentation meets current standards. 

  • Centralised information: Access all your COSHH records in one secure location, instantly and at anytime. Can be used as evidence for accreditation, and converted into PDF's for easy sharing. 
  • On-site accessible: Tablet and smart phone friendly, and electronic signing allows for on-site completion of assessments.
  • Linked documentation: Link your COSHH assessments to mission statements, and attach Safety Data Sheets to keep legally required documents accessible and expertly organised.
  • Multi-notification system - Dashboard, Modular dashboard and external email outlook notification - with an option for customisable weekly digest report and opportunity to send to staff and external contractors.

 

Seamless Intergration and User-Friendly Design

Implementing the COSHH assessment module from VISION is quick and hassle-free. The software intergrates effortlessly into existing workflows, adapting to the unique needs of different industries. Whether you run a small business or large enterprise, VISION simplifies COSHH compliance without compromising on precision. 

If you already use the RAMS builder module, you will already have access to the COSHH assessment module as part of your subscription. 

Why struggle with paperwork and complicated systems when VISION can simplify it all? Join the growing number of businesses that trust VISION for health and safety digital solutions and to handle their COSHH assessments with ease.

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