Gain confidence in your COSHH compliance

Polypipe is one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of piping systems, water and climate management systems, delivering engineered solutions that enable a sustainable built environment. Polypipe has an established international market position, employing 3,500 staff across 12 different sites.

Since 2021 Polypipe Ltd. has been known as Genuit.

Difficulty with chemical oversight

At Polypipe, the management of COSHH is a key strategy to maintain and improve the wellbeing of their employees. They acknowledge that this strategy is heavily policed by the HSE and as a business they take it very seriously.

Polypipe found it challenging to manage and understand what chemicals they had in use within their business, particularly within their various shop floors and departments. They also struggled to access key information from their chemical providers that enabled them to produce the technical COSHH assessments that they required for the everyday running of their business.

Polypipe required extra support and guidance to ensure that they were managing their hazardous substances safely and compliantly.

Discover the better way to manage chemicals

EcoOnline’s chemical manager reduces risks across your sites and locations, keeping you compliant without chasing paper, spreadsheets, or outdated files. Create a fully searchable database of all the products your organization uses and the locations sourced from EcoOnline. When you can access the most up to date safety data sheets, you prevent accidents by outlining hazards, safe handling, PPE, storage rules and emergency steps. Your workers can easily access important chemical hazard data with QR codes and an easy to use mobile app, giving them the right information anywhere in seconds. Create chemical risk assessments in minutes. Get all the correct information for safe handling and storage with prefilled GHS classification. Log and track any exposure to dangerous substances. Generate reports and review exposure summaries to ensure workers stay within safe limits, protecting their health and reducing organizational risk. Quickly compare your inventory against substances of concern lists. If something’s flagged, you can start a substitution request and send it straight through for approval. Spot high risk chemicals at a glance and replace them with safer alternatives. Better visibility means faster, smarter substitutions and stronger approval processes. With EcoOnline’s chemical manager, you get stress free compliance and streamlined chemical safety without the admin chaos. Book a demo to chat to our team and get started.

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Expert advice and assistance always on hand

Over the past number of years, Polypipe has worked with EcoOnline to implement our COSHH risk assessment software – Sypol.

They use a large number of hazardous products in their organisation, so making sure that they had fully robust COSHH assessments available to them at all times was crucial for them to maintain their people focused health and safety strategy.

They also required support from a team of technical experts who were available on the phone or email to help and advise on delivering bespoke COSHH assessments; having access to the Sypol helpdesk team seven days a week gives Polypipe that support.  

I would recommend Sypol to other manufacturers; the sheer vast knowledge that sits behind it in terms of the helpdesk and the speed at which COSHH assessments are delivered and sent out has proved invaluable to our business.

– Kris Ramsey
Head of HSE

Sypol gives Polypipe confidence that at the end of the phone or email there are a team of experts who will provide fully robust COSHH assessments for any hazardous products that they use. 

Previously, Polypipe would have had to complete COSHH assessments within their own team, which for most of their employees would have been out of their expertise and comfort zone.

Having professional support from the Sypol team and knowing that their COSHH assessments have been checked by a competent person gives Polypipe complete confidence that their COSHH strategy is being implemented compliantly.