Learn how to properly communicate hazards throughout your workplace.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- The right to know
- Hazardous substances in the workplace
- The Globally Harmonized System of Classification (GHS)
- Hazards: Health, physical, environmental
- Categorizing hazards
- Understanding GHS labels and pictograms
- NFPA and DOT pictograms: Which do you use?
- The chemical list
- What does not go on the chemical list
- An introduction to safety data sheets (SDSs)
- Reviewing an SDS
- Training considerations in the workplace
- Communication programs in the workplace
- Construction
- Multi-employer worksites
- Healthcare and pharmacies
- Chemical processors
- Next steps: Where to find more information
Taught by
Jim Rogers