Chemical agents: who are they, what do they do and how do you avoid risks?
WHAT DOES THIS HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES TRAINING COVER?
At work, at school or at home, you come across chemical products. Often harmless like detergent or laundry product, but equally they can be hazardous substances such as certain glues, degreasers or toilet cleaners.
Exposure to
products with hazardous properties (PHP)
therefore entails risks!
Learn now, in a hands-on way, to recognise, inventory and preventively avoid risks with hazardous substances.
Recognising risks
- Legal framework and responsibilities
- Basic knowledge of hazardous products
- What are chemical substances and which are hazardous?
- Recognition and hazard symbols
- Risks of chemical agents
- How do these substances act?
- Practical assignment: go and look for the chemical agents in your company. Look for both good and bad examples
Normec Praxis offers complementary trainings such as: Basic chemical concepts, Basic toxicology training and Advanced toxicology.
Risk inventory and assessment (CLP)
- Inventorying chemical agents
- MSDS: Material Safety Data Sheets or SIC: safety instruction cards
- REACH and CLP regulation
- Health surveillance, biomonitoring, environmental measurements
- Assessing the health risks
- Fire and explosion risks
- Environmental risks
- Practical assignment: work out the risk assessment of a few chemical agents in your company.
Prevention policy for hazardous substances
- Preventing the risks of chemical substances
- Prevention policy when purchasing chemical products
- Use of collective and personal protective equipment
- Measures in the event of incidents, accidents and emergencies
- Information, training and signage
- Safe storage of chemical substances
- Safe transport
Normec Praxis offers other complementary trainings, including: Basic chemical concepts, Basic toxicology training, Advanced toxicology: exposure modelling and exposure scenarios, Ecotoxicology and risk analysis.
NO WORDS, BUT ACTIONS!
- Theoretical training with applied practical examples
- The training is adapted to the target group
- Operators working with chemical products
- Maintenance staff
- Employers, managers or prevention advisers
- Preferably based on your internal risk analysis and photo material
- Every participant receives a certificate of participation
WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?
“The employer ensures that the Committee and the workers concerned are provided with training and information on appropriate precautions to protect themselves and other workers at the workplace. This information:
Is provided in a manner appropriate to the outcome of the risk assessment: this may range from oral communication to individual instruction and training, supported by written information, depending on the nature and extent of the risk revealed by the assessment prescribed in the aforementioned provisions;
Is always adapted to changed circumstances” (Code, book VI, title 1).
Frequently asked questions
What do you learn in the hazardous substances training?
Recognising, inventorying (SDS, CLP, REACH) and preventing the risks of chemical agents, with a practical assignment in your own company.
Who is the training for?
For operators working with chemical products, maintenance staff, employers, managers and prevention advisers.
Do I receive a certificate?
Every participant receives a certificate of participation.