This free online course explains the importance of hazard communication when using chemicals in the workplace. Understanding and knowledge of hazard communication are paramount to ensuring the safe use of harmful chemicals. This course delves into hazard communication and explains how to communicate workplace hazards and the standards that must be met and maintained to ensure consistency under OSHA’s ‘Hazard Communication Standard’ and the United Nations’ ‘Globally Harmonised Systems’. These standards assure effective handling and use of chemicals.
| Course Category | |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Outline an effective hazard communication programme • Summarize the advantages of aligning OSHA and GHS • Explain the importance of an employee's right to be informed • Summarize chemical health hazards that could occur if standards aren’t met • Recall the importance of labelling containers correctly • Identify the warning words, statements and pictograms used to label containers correctly • Describe the importance of using safety data sheets (SDS) • Discuss who is required to have safety data sheets • Outline what is needed on a safety data sheet • Paraphrase the steps the importer must comply with • Discuss employer responsibility in hazard communication • Indicate the training requirements needed in hazard communication |
| Course Code | 1266 |
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