Hazardous Spills
This online Dealing with Hazardous Spills course helps workers understand the hazards that can be associated with HAZMATs and the cleanup procedures that can mitigate them.
Description
This online Dealing with Hazardous Spills course helps workers understand the hazards that can be associated with HAZMATs and the cleanup procedures that can mitigate them. Hazardous materials in the workplace usually aren't a problem when they're handled carefully. But accidents can and do happen. When a spill occurs, serious damage can be prevented if employees have been trained on how to respond to them safely and effectively. Areas covered in the course include information on HAZMAT basics and the Emergency Action Plan, the spill response team, the first steps in responding to a spill, characterizing a spill and cleaning it up, special hazards associated with a HAZMAT spill cleanup, decontamination and waste disposal, and more.
This online Hazardous Spills course covers the following topics:
- The Hazard Communication Plan
- The Emergency Response Plan
- Five levels of OSHA's HAZMAT training
- Initial spill response
- Spill containment
- Instruments used to identify chemicals involved in a spill
- Additional hazards of a spill site
- And more
Testing conducted throughout this online course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to pass this course. The course is able to be taken three times in efforts to achieve the pass mark. Printable resources are available in the form of a comprehensive student manual. The manual is a valuable resource for future use and knowledge retention.