"T i m" wrote in message
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Hi All,

My 14 year old daughter came home the other day with a little wooden
'project' she had made at school in DT.
It looks like it was made from 6mm thick MDF and I asked her if anyone
was required to wear a face mask whilst cutting it and apparently no
one was?
Now I don't *think* this was a real safety issue but should they have
worn masks (officially?).


Does COSHH and the HSAW Act apply to pupils at schools? It certainly
didn't to start off with, and I recall that some years ago there was a
hurried Regulation published to extend COSHH (I think) to technical
colleges, but I can't remember schools being mentioned.
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M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm