Best Practice in Chemical Risk Assessment and Management

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07 Dec 2025 Istanbul, Turkey $ 4,500 Register

Best Practice in Chemical Risk Assessment and Management

Introduction

Hazardous substances include chemicals in all their forms (dusts, mists, gases, liquids, vapors, etc.) nanotechnologies, and biological agents. Workplaces using hazardous chemicals must implement proper controls to ensure the workforce involved in transporting, handling, and using chemicals perform these processes in a safe manner. The Safety, Health, and Welfare at Work (Chemical Agents) Regulations require hazard identification and performance of Chemical Risk Assessments (CRA) in relation to all hazardous chemical agents in the workplace. The CPL and REACH regulations also impose additional obligations. These and other relevant legal requirements including those relating to asbestos, lead, radioactive agents, and transportation are also covered by the training.

Objectives

    On completing this course the participant will be able to do the following in their workplace:

    • Understand legal obligations in relation to hazardous chemicals and actions needed to meet these,
    • Understand hazardous chemical dangers, correct labelling & Safety Data Sheets (SDS),
    • Gather and evaluate information about properties and hazards of chemicals,
    • Perform chemical risk assessments in a competent manner,
    • Determine and prioritise best practice control measures to reduce risk,
    • Identify appropriate information for training employees,
    • Determine when health surveillance is required,
    • Plan for chemical-related emergencies,
    • Source additional information about chemicals and their safe management.

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

This course is suitable for anyone involved with chemicals policy, chemical management, and chemical risk assessment and also any involved in chemical handling, storage, and transport including line managers, supervisors, EHS, quality, and EHS professionals and auditors and general staff.

Course Outline

  • General (background) and chemical-related health and safety legislation including CLP & REACH,
  • Classification of hazardous chemicals,
  • Chemical accident case studies,
  • Type and impact of health & environmental effects and safe working levels (SWLs),
  • Hazard identification & chemical risk assessment,
  • Sourcing information (use of SDS and other data sources),
  • Principles of risk reduction,
  • Exposure scenarios, basics of chemical monitoring & health surveillance,
  • Pro-active risk assessment, review and management of change,
  • Safe chemical handling and storage,
  • Emergency and spill response planning,
  • Information, instruction, and training needs for employees,
  • Drafting a chemical management program.
  • Case studies, discussions, and interactive, problem-based individual and group training exercises are used to reinforce delegates’ learning.

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