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A completed COSHH assessment,for a tin you have probably used.

White spirit, used to clean brushes after gloss painting. This is not a wireframe: the tool read the supplier’s safety data sheet, a person confirmed the facts and made the judgement, and this is what came out. The substance and the sheet are real; “Example Contracts Ltd” is what it says it is. Read it here, or open the PDF that gets filed.
OPEN THE ISSUED PDF
The issued white spirit assessment on a phone: DANGER, don't start if, first aid, before you start, spills and fire, and the read-and-understood buttons.
What the painter opens. One link, no app, no login.

The assessment

What it says, in full.

Four parts. The facts came from the sheet and were confirmed by a person; the judgement is the person’s and is recorded as theirs.

Substance and sheet

Product
No Nonsense White Spirit
Supplier
Screwfix Direct Ltd
Sheet revision
12 May 2023
Signal word
Danger
Hazard statements
H226 · H336 · H372 · H304 · H411 · EUH066

The job

Task
Cleaning brushes and rollers after gloss painting
Who
Two painters
How much, how often
About two litres a day, most days
Where
Ground-floor flats, windows open

Exposure and what covers it

Breathing it in
Covered by: cleaning brushes at the bench by an open window, never in a closed room; keeping the tin closed between dips
Skin contact
Covered by: keeping the tin closed between dips, plus nitrile gloves
Worn for the job
Nitrile gloves and safety glasses

Signed

Issued
29 July 2026, version 1
Exposure limits
Checked against HSE EH40 — no listed ingredient matched
Flagged for checking
An ingredient carries mandatory GB classifications the sheet does not show

Worth noticing

Three things this example does that a copied one cannot.

  • It names the sheet it read. Revision 12 May 2023, from Screwfix. When the supplier issues a new one, this assessment is marked as needing rework rather than quietly going stale.
  • Coverage is stated, not implied. Each exposure route names the controls that deal with it. Nobody ticked a box for the assessor.
  • It flags what it could not settle. An ingredient carries mandatory GB classifications that do not appear on this sheet. The tool says so and points at the source; the person decides what to do about it.
The judgement screen: controls listed best-first, protective equipment, and a picker confirming which controls cover each exposure route.
The judgement screen. Controls best-first, and an explicit answer to “what covers breathing it in?”.

The way through

Start from the sheet the supplier already gave you.

That assessment took one upload, a handful of taps and one typed line. The facts came out of the sheet; the judgement came from the person who signed it.

  1. 01

    Upload the supplier safety data sheet.

  2. 02

    Check the facts it read, and correct anything wrong.

  3. 03

    Say what the job is and who is exposed.

  4. 04

    Choose the controls, and confirm what covers each route.

  5. 05

    Issue it. Send the link.

START FROM THE SAFETY DATA SHEET

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