Chemical Spills, Safety Precautions & Response Action
Chemical Spills, Safety Precautions & Response Action
OBJECTIVES
- Understand the basic terms associated with chemical releases and explain the terms “containment” and “confinement”
- Recognize where spills are likely to occur and develop work practices that can prevent spills from occurring
- Define the goals of spill control
- Identify procedures and actions to take when discovering or responding to a spill of hazardous materials or waste
- Describe the roles and responsibilities of personnel in incidents and emergency situations
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Plant/Operations Personnel & Managers, Shift Supervisors & Shift Team Leaders
- Laboratory Personnel
- Emergency Incident Wardens
- Those who may be required to respond to workplace incidents of a possible or actual release of a chemical
COURSE OUTLINE
DAY ONE
- Intro
- Hazardous materials
- Identification of hazards
- Examples of Different sorts of spill
- Work practices that can prevent spills from occurring
- Incidents and types of emergency situations
- The goals of spill control
- Responder’s safety
- Spill Response and Clean-up Procedures
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Material Safety Data Sheet
- Risk Assessment
- On-site Emergency Plans
- Training, Exercises & Drills
- Roles and responsibilities of personnel
- Off-site Emergency Plans
- Identify additional resources for information on spill response procedures.
- Evacuation
- Missing Persons
- Environmental philosophy
- Incident reporting & Communication
- Recommended Spill Control Materials Inventory & Location
- Classic case studies
- Specific Procedures
- Doing it wrong/doing it right
- Bioremediation
- First Aid
- Course Review