Storage and Handling of Toxic Chemicals and Hazardous Materials
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Storage and Handling of Toxic Chemicals and Hazardous Materials Course
Introduction:
This course offers comprehensive insights into the procurement, transportation, storage, and handling of chemicals, with a specific focus on hazardous chemicals. Through a combination of formal presentations and group exercises, participants will gain knowledge about the properties of hazardous chemicals and learn how to safely control them. The course equips delegates with the necessary information to establish a secure working system and ensure the safe management of hazardous chemicals.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course the delegates will be fully familiar with:
- Transportation of hazardous substances
- Handling and assessment of risk prior to working with hazardous substances
- Procedures of dealing with spills and contamination of persons and property
- Appreciate the needs for emergency response plans
- The production of a hazardous substance Procedure Manual
- The safe disposal of hazardous waste and by products
- Personal Protective Equipment for working with hazardous substances
- Purchasing Controls for ordering hazardous materials
- Storage facilities and security considerations
Who Should Attend?
This course will be of benefit to all supervisors in warehousing, inventory management, and logistics operations. It will also be of benefit to managers in these operations.
Course Outlines:
Introduction to course, its aims and objectives
- The role of the supervisor and manager in preventing chemical incidents
- Types of hazardous substances, understanding of key properties and principles of classification
- How international regulations identify hazardous substances
- Hazardous data sheets, information required to complete or interpret hazard data sheets
- Packaging hazardous substances for carriage
- Transportation of hazardous substances, key international regulations
- The role of the purchasing department in ensuring safe handling
- Transport of hazardous substances
- Documentation needs
- Safety equipment
- Operational controls/limits
- Storage of hazardous substances
- Bulk storage
- Packaged goods storage
- Chemical warehouses, design and operational features
- PPE assessments selection and use
- Risk assessment as applied to the transport and storage of hazardous substances
- Safe handling, control, and measurement of exposure to hazardous substances
- Spillage containment, emergency response, and decontamination/remediation
- The problems associated with the disposal of chemical waste
- Special requirements relating to hazardous work
- Hazardous work documentation
- Key procedures, a suggested approval to the development of procedures
- Training needs assessment for the distribution and storage process