COSHH Assessment for Sports Massage Therapists - Completed for Your Business

The products used in sports massage - carrier oils, essential oil blends, menthol and camphor-based muscle rubs, topical analgesics, and arnica preparations - contain active ingredients that fall under COSHH regulations. Regular professional skin contact with these substances presents skin sensitisation risks that are well documented in the massage therapy industry. || Inhalation of essential oils and volatile components during massage work is also a route of exposure that needs to be addressed. Therapists who use strong muscle rub preparations or essential oils in treatment rooms without adequate ventilation are exposed to inhalation risks throughout their working day. || A COSHH assessment needs to cover every product used regularly in treatment, not just the most obviously active ones. Carrier oils, massage waxes, and skin preparation products all need to be included.

It is common for massage therapists who have any COSHH documentation to have covered only the strongest products - the muscle rubs and analgesics - while overlooking carrier oils, essential oil blends, and other products used regularly in treatment. A complete COSHH assessment covers the full product range. CompliantDocs generates this from the complete list of products you tell us you use.