Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (S.I. No. 2677 of 2002).

The Regulations, with the exception of regulations 8, 9, 11(8), (10) and (11) and 14, implement EC legislation on risks related to exposure to chemical, physical and biological agents at work. They provide for assessment of the risk from exposure to substances hazardous to health, detail the measures which the employer must take to prevent or adequately control the exposure of his employees to substances hazardous to health, provide for duties in respect of care and decontamination of personal protective equipment, provide for the keeping of an individual record of air monitoring where an employee is required to be under health surveillance, prescribe duties on employers with respect to health surveillance where an employee is found to have an identifiable disease or adverse health effect caused by exposure to a substance hazardous to health, etc.