Chemicals are a fact of life. Hazardous Chemical Safety Training looks at how all living things are made from chemicals and how, in fact we depend on chemistry for our very existence…everything from the ground we walk on to the air we breathe is made from chemicals and chemical compounds.
Every workplace, office, factory, warehouse or plant, uses chemicals to some extent or other. Chemicals range from mild cleaning agents through to highly corrosive, flammable and poisonous substances that are used for different processes and applications.
- Managers.
- Engineers, and other technical staff.
- Health, safety and environmental (HSE) personnel and any one can be handled hazardous chemicals.
- Any Employee dealing with hazardous materials and chemicals in the workplace.
To Provide employees with information and direction to prevent injuries resulting from exposure to hazardous chemicals.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the hazards of toxic chemicals including its types, risk control and specific precautions.
- Increase employees’ knowledge and awareness of the chemicals they handle in a safe manner.
- Employ control measures for chemicals and prevent hazards arising in reactive chemicals processing.
- Introduction to chemicals.
- Definitions
- International regulations related hazardous chemicals.
- International classification and identification of hazardous chemicals:
- Non- hazardous chemicals.
- Hazardous chemicals.
- Properties of Hazardous Chemicals
- Flammability.
- Reactivity.
- Corrosivity.
- Toxicity.
- Effect of hazardous chemicals:
- Health effect
- Environmental effect
- Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS).
- Assessment of hazardous chemicals:
- Human.
- Environment.
- Control of Transporting of hazardous chemicals.
- Control of handling of hazardous chemicals.
- Label of containers.
- RTK
- HMIS
- NFPA
- Control of storage hazardous chemicals
- Personal protective equipment (PPE) uses with hazardous chemicals.
- Training needed for hazardous chemicals:
- Employees.
- Contractors.
