Intended for
All personnel who have the responsibility for / work with, use or store/handle hazardous substances
Duration
10 hours
2 Days to complete
Aims
To identify the adverse health effects by exposure to hazardous substances and explain the control measures available for protection and prevention, to provide the information and knowledge required to carry out safe assessment and risk control measures for the potential dangers associated with Chemical and substance hazards.
Content
- Introduction
- Managing chemical agents (a systematic approach)
- Physical forms and hazardous properties of chemicals and substances
- Routs of entry
- Labelling of containers (symbols and meanings )
- Video material
- Key management activities
- Data Sheets and Manufacturer’s Information
- Eyewash Stations and Emergency Showers
- Health monitoring and Surveillance
- Prescribed industrial diseases
- Causes of injuries
- Factors affecting Health and Safety
- Principles of risk assessment
- Risk assessment hierarchy
- Hazards and risk
- Main risk activities
- Inventories
- Hazard identification
- Records inspection
- Rating scale
- Risk control
- Workplace precautions
- Risk reduction
- Summarise
- Seeing – Knowing – Reasoning – Deciding
- Questions
- Practical assessment simulation
Price
$120