Laboratory safety training

Laboratory staff are usually well trained in methods and equipment. What's often missing is the safety side: recognising hazards in their own routine, understanding their legal responsibilities, and knowing exactly what to do when a spill, exposure or fire happens.

This course closes that gap. It focuses on identifying and controlling risks, and it includes a module on the chemicals your lab actually uses, so the training is about your bench rather than a textbook.

1. Responsibilities. Employer and employee duties, and what they mean in a lab.
2. Hazard identification and risk control. Finding hazards in routine lab work and choosing controls.
3. Workplace safety. Safe procedures, housekeeping, equipment and personal protective equipment (PPE).
4. Basics of chemicals. Chemical hazards, labelling, safety data sheets and storage.
5. Your chemicals. A module built around the chemicals used in your own laboratory.
6. Emergency procedures and disaster management. Spills, exposures, fire and evacuation.

• Laboratory technicians and analysts
• Quality control and quality assurance staff who work in labs
• Laboratory supervisors and managers
• Health and safety representatives for laboratory areas

This course suits food and beverage manufacturers' quality labs particularly well, where food safety audits also look at chemical control.

A BMS Holdings certificate of attendance and course notes that include a summary of the hazards of your own chemicals.

• Hazardous Chemical Substances: chemical storage and handling across the workplace
• HIRA training: hazard identification and risk assessment
• First Aid Level 1: responding to injuries and exposures
• Annual occupational medicals: surveillance for lab staff exposed to chemicals
• Office Safety: the one-day course for the admin teams who share your building
• Workplace risk assessments: we assess the risks in your lab and plant