Chemical Health Risk Assessment (CHRA)

The Occupational Safety and Health (Use and Standards of Exposure of Chemicals Hazardous to Health) Regulations 2000, or in short, referred to as the USECHH Regulations, requires the employer of any place of work where chemicals hazardous to health are used to conduct a chemical health risk assessment (CHRA) at the workplace. The objectives of the assessment is to enable employer to make decisions on the appropriate control measures to be taken, induction and training of employees, monitoring and health surveillance activities as may be required to protect the health of employees who may be exposed to hazardous chemicals at the workplace.

The objectives of an assessment are as follows:

To identify the hazards posed by each chemical substance used, stored, handled or transported within the place of work
To evaluate the degree of exposure of employees to the hazardous chemicals through inhalation, skin contact, and/or ingestion
To evaluate the adequacy of existing control measures;
To conclude the significance of the health risk posed by the hazardous chemicals; and
To recommend further appropriate control measures to prevent or reduce such risks to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP)

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