Working with chemicals: decanting, storage, spills and exposure

Skills you'll practise

• Use the SDS to decide on PPE, handling and storage before using a chemical
• Decant into a suitable container and label it as your site requires, or use it immediately as the rules allow
• Keep incompatible chemicals apart using SDS sections 7 and 10
• Decide whether a spill is one you can deal with under your training or one to evacuate and report
• Respond to an exposure, report it, and know where eyewash and safety showers are

Course outline

1. 1.Working with chemicals: decanting, storage, spills and exposureVideo · 3 min
2. 2.Before you use itLesson · 16 min
3. 3.Storage and incompatiblesLesson · 16 min
4. 4.Spills and exposuresLesson · 18 min
5. 5.Working with chemicals: decanting, storage, spills and exposure: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
6. 6.Working with chemicals: decanting, storage, spills and exposure: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
7. 7.Final exam7 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• OSHA: Hazard Communication
• OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1200: Hazard Communication standard
• UNECE: About the GHS (Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals)
• OSHA 29 CFR 1910.151: Medical services and first aid
• OSHA interpretation: ANSI Z358.1 guidance for complying with 1910.151(c)
• Your employer's safety procedures, risk assessments and site rules (these govern)