Hazardous Material Awareness Training

Chemicals are part of our daily life. All living and inanimate matter is made up of chemicals and virtually every man-made product involves the use of chemicals. Many chemicals can, when properly used, significantly contribute to the improvement of our quality of life, health and well-being.

But other chemicals are highly hazardous and can negatively affect our health and environment when improperly managed. The largest contributors include indoor smoke from solid fuel use, outdoor air pollution and second-hand smoke followed by occupational particulates, chemicals involved in acute poisonings, and pesticides involved in self-poisonings.

To date the assessments cover only a limited number of chemicals or their mixtures for which data were available. The burden of disease from chemicals which could not yet be assessed at global level remains unknown.

Hazardous Material Training aims to ensure that employees will have sufficient knowledge of the chemicals they are working with or around to minimize the potential of a severe incident involving hazardous chemicals. It also helps in the reduction of occurrence of fire and explosion and chance of spills that can cause environmental contamination outside the workplace.

This training will help learners to:

• Describe the different forms and properties of chemicals.
• Identify the different routes of entry of chemicals to human body.
• Understand the importance of labelling and Safety Data Sheet
• Identify different risks associated with the use of chemicals.
• Identify control measures that will prevent or mitigate the adverse impact of chemical.