LSA0024 - Warehouse 102: Chemical Hazard and Emergency Preparedness
Course Description
FREE COURSE!
This course is designed to provide employees with strategies on how to safely work with chemicals and become familiar with fire prevention, emergency action plans, and medically related emergencies. Safety principles and work practices to prevent workplace incidents/accidents and injuries will be covered. Participants will learn potential hazards recognition relative to working with chemicals in a warehousing and/or distribution setting. The course is based on established training and procedural guidance from OSHA standards, Info Sheets, Fact Sheets, and other OSHA, CDC, and NIOSH materials.
Course Outline
- Worker Rights and OSHA regulations and expectations of employers.
- Hazardous chemicals in a warehousing and or distribution facility.
- Potential hazards for workers.
- Employer compliance for hazardous chemicals.
- OSHA requirements for an effective Hazard Communication Program.
- Fire prevention.
- Emergency Action Plans (EAP).
Learner Outcomes
After completing this course, students will have an understanding of:
- OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard and how it applies in a work environment to protect workers from injury and safety incidents.
- Employer responsibilities are for having a Hazard Communication Training Program in place.
- Hazard recognition/self-inspection
- Understand the cause of heat related injuries, the signs and symptoms, and preventive measures.
- Understand and be familiar with best practices in the workplace for preventing fires.
- Understand and be familiar with the different types of workplace emergencies and how to respond according to an Emergency Action Plan.
Notes
Harper College is a proud recipient of the OSHA Susan Harwood Training Grant which provides FREE training and education. Government employees are not eligible to participate due to grant regulations (Local/City/Municipality, County, State or Federal) unless, occupational health and safety training is part of the employee's job role.
The intended audience includes:
- Supervisors and Managers (of businesses with less than 250 employees)
- Employees and Workers (of businesses with less than 250 employees)
- Currently unemployed/displaced workers planning on returning to the workforce in the next three months.
- New Businesses (with less than 250 employees)
- Limited English Proficiency Workers
- Low Literacy Workers
- Young Workers
- Temporary Workers
- Minority and other hard-to-reach workers
- Workers in high-hazard industries with high fatality rates
- Government employees who are responsible for occupational safety and health duties at their agencies
Disclaimer: This material was produced under grant number SH000022SH3 from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. government.