Hazardous chemical substances training

A chemical splash or a fire is obvious. Long-term exposure to fumes, dust or vapours is not, and the health effects may only show years later. Misused flammables, meanwhile, can lead to fires that cost far more than the product ever did.

The Regulations for Hazardous Chemical Agents, 2021 (which replaced the Hazardous Chemical Substances Regulations of 1995) require employers to assess and control exposure, and to inform and train the people at risk. This course gives your appointed and responsible people the knowledge to do that.

1. Chemical and flammable hazards. How chemicals and flammables cause injury, illness, fire and damage.
2. The OHS Act and chemicals. The legal framework, including the Regulations for Hazardous Chemical Agents, 2021.
3. Health effects. Short-term and long-term effects of chemical exposure.
4. Routes of entry. Inhalation, skin contact, ingestion and injection, and how to block each one.
5. Storage and handling of chemicals. Separation, labelling, safety data sheets, and flammable liquid storage.
6. PPE use and purpose. Selecting, using, maintaining and storing protective equipment.

• Employees exposed to chemicals in their work
• People responsible for chemical and flammable stores
• Supervisors of areas where chemicals are used
• SHEQ (safety, health, environment and quality) practitioners
• Health and safety representatives and SHE committee members
• Contractors who use chemicals on your premises

A BMS Holdings certificate of attendance. Training records like this are part of the evidence the hazardous chemical regulations expect employers to keep for exposed employees.

• Laboratory Safety: chemical safety in the lab, including your own chemicals
• Safe Stacking and Storage: storage facilities and stacking
• First Aid Level 1: responding to exposures and burns
• Annual occupational medicals: medical surveillance for employees exposed to hazardous chemical agents
• Workplace risk assessments: including chemical risk assessments