This Fire Safety Training module is designed to teach you preventive measures that will eliminate or minimize causes of fire or fire hazards in the workplace, and to teach you proper emergency and evacuation procedures in the event of a fire.

Chemical safety training should be a key component of your health and safety program to prevent injuries, illnesses, death, environmental contamination, and property damage.

  • About 32 million workers are potentially exposed to one or more chemical hazards.
  • There are approximately 650,000 existing chemical products, and hundreds of new ones being introduced annually.
  • Chemical exposure may cause or contribute to many serious health effects such as heart ailments, central nervous system damage, kidney and lung damage, sterility, cancer, burns, and rashes
  • Some chemicals may also be safety hazards and have the potential to cause fires and explosions and other serious accidents

 

Accident causation is a safety model that interprets different acts and/or conditions as potential factors leading to accidents that could result in possible minor or serious injuries and/or damaged equipment.

Topic Overview

 

  • Primary causes of accidents
  • Factors Contributing to Unsafe Acts
  • Examples of Unsafe Condition
  • WORKPLACE HAZARDS and their ILL EFFECTS
  • OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS

 

 

 

  • Physical Hazards
  • Biological Hazards
  • Chemical hazards
  • Ergonomic Hazards

 

  • Exposure Control