Hazard Communication (HazCom) Awareness
Working safely with hazardous chemicals under OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard: the GHS and the 2012 and 2024 HCS updates, physical and health hazard classes, pictograms and statements, shipped container and workplace labels, the 16-section safety data sheet, exposure limits and controls, safe handling, storage and spills, and the written program and training.
HSE-102 12 lessons · 5 h 5 min
Offered by HSM University · Safety Training
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Explain the purpose of HazCom, the right to know, and how labels, safety data sheets and training work together
- Describe the GHS and the HazCom legal framework, including 29 CFR 1910.1200, the 2012 and 2024 updates and state plans
- Identify physical hazard classes and categories, including flammable liquids, gases under pressure, oxidizers, combustible dusts and asphyxiants
- Identify health hazard classes and categories, including acute toxicity, corrosion, sensitization, CMR hazards and target organ toxicity
- Interpret pictograms, signal words, hazard statements and precautionary statements, including precedence rules
- Read and evaluate shipped container labels, including small container and bulk shipment provisions
- Apply workplace labeling rules for decanted products, process equipment, products made on site and rating systems such as NFPA 704
- Describe the 16 sections of a safety data sheet and the requirements for keeping SDSs current and accessible
- Use safety data sheets to answer practical questions about hazards, protection, storage, first aid and safer alternatives
- Explain routes of entry, exposure limits, the hierarchy of controls, ventilation and chemical personal protective equipment
- Apply safe handling, transfer, storage, segregation, spill response, first aid and waste practices
- Describe manufacturer, employer, supervisor and employee duties and build a written HazCom program with training and inspections
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 5 min total · final exam
- 1 Why hazard communication matters 25 min · quiz
- 2 The GHS and the HazCom legal framework 25 min · quiz
- 3 Physical hazard classes 28 min · quiz
- 4 Health hazard classes 26 min · quiz
- 5 Pictograms, signal words and hazard statements 26 min · quiz
- 6 Shipped container labels 25 min · quiz
- 7 Workplace labels and other forms of warning 25 min · quiz
- 8 Safety data sheets: the 16 sections 25 min · quiz
- 9 Reading an SDS in practice 25 min · quiz
- 10 Exposure, exposure limits and controls 25 min · quiz
- 11 Safe handling, storage, spills and emergencies 25 min · quiz
- 12 Roles, training and the written HazCom program 25 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Description
Working safely with hazardous chemicals under OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard: the GHS and the 2012 and 2024 HCS updates, physical and health hazard classes, pictograms and statements, shipped container and workplace labels, the 16-section safety data sheet, exposure limits and controls, safe handling, storage and spills, and the written program and training.