A safe-handling routine for every chemical
An SDS and a risk assessment describe the safe method, but a routine makes it happen. Generate a recurring handling checklist straight from a chemical in your COSHH register.
A safety data sheet tells your team how to handle a chemical. A risk assessment records the risk and the controls. Neither one makes the safe method happen on a busy shift. A routine does, by turning the method into a checklist staff work through and you can see was followed.
Why a routine, not just a document
People do not read a folder mid-shift. They follow the checklist in front of them. If safe decanting, the right PPE, correct storage, and what to do after a spill live in a recurring routine, the safe method gets done and logged. If they only live in a document, you are relying on memory.
How it works in Paddl
Once a chemical is in your COSHH register, open it and click Create handling routine. Paddl drafts a recurring checklist from the data it already holds for that product.
Add the chemical to your COSHH register, or let an SDS upload create it.
Open the chemical and click Create handling routine.
Paddl drafts the checklist from the hazards, PPE, storage, and spillage detail.
Review and edit the steps, set who does it and how often.
Save, and it appears in your team's app on schedule.
A worked example: line cleaner
Take a caustic line cleaner in the cellar. The drafted routine might check that gloves and eye protection are on before decanting, that the product is measured rather than eyeballed, that it is stored away from incompatible chemicals, and that the area is rinsed and the spill kit is stocked. Your cellar team ticks it off each clean, and you have a record that the safe method was followed.
It stays linked to the chemical
The routine is built from the COSHH record, so when the product or its guidance changes you can regenerate or edit the routine to match. The register, the risk assessment, and the routine all describe the same chemical rather than drifting apart.
You still own it
Paddl drafts the routine, you decide it is right. Check the steps against how your team actually uses the product, edit anything that is off, and set a sensible schedule before it goes live.
This is part of how Paddl connects your records. One chemical gives you the register entry, the risk assessment, and the handling routine, so the safe method is written down, assessed, and actually done.
