Course curriculum

    1. Chemical Safety at Home

    2. Introduction to Chemical Safety at Home

    3. Course Information

    1. Chemicals in Everyday Life

    2. Underlying Risk in the Use of Chemicals

    3. Leading Causes of Mortality and the Significance of Addressing Chemical Exposure

    4. Injuries from Poisoning: Unintentional and Self-Harming Behaviours

    5. Children’s Injuries from Poisoning Around UK Homes

    6. Do you know?

    1. Hazards from Chemicals and Illnesses Defined

    2. Types of Hazardous Chemicals and Routes of Absorption into the Body

    3. Need for Consistent Standards in Hazards Classification

    4. The UN Globally Harmonized System of the Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)

    5. The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), UK-REACH, and Brexit Considerations

    6. HAZCOM for Industries and Consumers

    7. Consumer Safety: Regional Variations on SDS and HAZCOM Requirements

    8. Varying SDS Requirements on Hazardous Chemicals: Consumer vs Industrial Use

    9. Alternative HAZCOM on Hazardous Household Chemicals / Trade Secrecy and Confidentiality Claims

    10. Strategy for Managing Chemical Hazards at Home

    11. Do you know?

    1. Learn to Read HAZCOM and SDS

    2. Adapting the Hierarchy of Controls

    3. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

    4. Rules of Thumb in the Use of Chemical Products and Prevention of Accidents

    5. Typical Symptoms of Poisoning with Chemicals

    6. General First Aid Procedures for a Chemical Exposure

    7. The Spill Kit

    8. Spill Cleaning Procedure

    9. Household Chemicals That Should Never Mix

    10. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)

    11. Avoiding VOC Poisoning

    12. Avoiding Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

    13. Knowledge Review

About this course

  • Free
  • 33 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

Course Duration

20 to 40 minutes

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