HAZMAT & HAZCOM: Hazardous Materials & Chemicals Handling, Storage, MSDS, Disposal, Monitoring, Response & Spill Clean Up

Introduction

Hazardous materials and chemicals are ubiquitous as air, carbohydrates, enzymes, lipids, minerals, proteins, vitamins, water, and wood. Naturally occurring hazardous materials and chemicals are supplemented by man-made substances. There are about 70,000 chemicals in use with another 500-1000 added each year. Their properties have been harnessed to enhance the quality of life, thus chemicals are found in virtually all workplaces. Besides the benefits, chemicals also pose dangers to man and the environment. Society must strike a balance between the benefits and risks of hazardous materials and chemicals. In the workplace, it is a management responsibility to ensure practices control the dangers, and it is for employees to collaborate in implementing the agreed procedures. Management also prevents uncontrolled environmental releases and ensure all wastes are disposed of safely and with proper regard for their environmental impact. The aims of this course are to raise awareness and to help participants identify, assess, and control the hazards of chemicals and other hazardous materials to permit optimum exploitation whilst minimizing the dangers. The hazards of chemicals stem from their inherent flammable, explosive, toxic, carcinogenic, corrosive, radioactive, or chemical-reactive properties. The effect of exposure on personnel may be acute (fatal) or prolonged which results in an occupational disease or systematic poisoning. However, whether a hazardous property of the chemical (or mixture of chemicals) the scale involved, the circumstances of handling or use, e.g. provision of control and safety devices, local exhaust ventilation, general ventilation, personal protection, atmospheric monitoring, and systems of work generally. This course is designed to cover occupational, industrial, and environmental hazards associated with hazardous materials and chemicals. It includes chemical spills, fires, and explosions since they inevitably involve chemical compounds, Further, the course will present information on the nature of hazardous materials and chemicals and help participants reduce or eliminate potential exposure to hazardous materials and chemicals in their work environment.

Objectives

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Apply proper techniques in hazardous material handling (HAZMAT) and hazardous material communication (HAZCOM) including handling, storage, disposal, monitoring, response, MSDS, and spill clean up hazardous materials and chemicals
• Discuss the physic chemistry of vapor pressure, gas-liquid solubility, density differences of liquids, surface area effects in the mass transfer or heterogeneous reactions, and chemical reaction kinetics
• Recognize the hazards of toxic chemicals including its types, risk control, and specific precautions
• Employ control measures for flammable chemicals and prevent hazards arising in reactive chemicals processing
• Enumerate the various cryogens, compresses gases, and radioactive chemicals including its characteristics
• Carry out proper monitoring techniques for environmental pollution, gases, vapors, particulates, water quality, sampling strategies, and incident investigation
• Discuss safety by design including design procedures, layout, storage, piping arrangements, fire protection, installation and operation of hazardous chemicals
• Apply effective operating procedures for the commissioning, operation, maintenance, spillage, personal protection, and monitoring standards of hazardous chemicals
• Identify the classification, packaging, labeling, and specific information for marketing hazardous chemicals
• Employ the safe transport of chemicals by road, rail, air & sea and determine the modes of transportation for liquids, gases, and solids
• Acquire knowledge on the monitoring and protection of chemicals and the environment including the legislative control governing these chemicals, proper waste management, and environmental impact assessment

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?

Course Outline

Day 1: General Principles of Chemistry

• Atoms and Molecules
• Periodic Table
• Valency
• Chemical Bonds
• Oxidation/Reduction
• Physical State
• Acids
• Bases
• Halogens
• Metals
• Oxygen and Sulphur
• Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Arsenic and Antinomy
• PH
• Salts
• Organic Chemistry
• Combustion Chemistry
• Chemical Reactivity

Physic-Chemistry

• Vapour Pressure
• Gas-Liquid Solubility
• Liquid-To-Vapour Phase Change
• Solid-To-Liquid Phase Change
• Density Differences of Gases and Vapours
• Density Differences of Liquids
• Immiscible Liquid-Liquid Systems
• Vapour Flashing
• Effects of Particle or Droplet Size
• Surface Area Effects in Mass Transfer or Heterogeneous Reactions
• Enthalpy Changes on Mixing Liquids
• Critical Temperature of Gases
• Chemical Reaction Kinetics
• Corrosion
• Force & Pressure
• Expansion and Contraction of Solids

Toxic Chemicals

• Hazard Recognition
• Types of Toxic Chemicals
• Hazard Assessment
• Risk Assessment of Carcinogens
• Risk Control
• Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
• Specific Precautions
• MSDS

Day 2: Flammable Chemicals

• Ignition and Propagation of a Fame Front
• Control Measures
• Fire Extinguishment
• Fire Precautions
• MSDS

Reactive Chemicals

• Water-Sensitive Chemicals
• Toxic Hazards from Mixtures
• Reactive Hazards from Mixtures
• Oxidizing Agents
• Explosive Chemicals
• General Principles for Storage
• Hazards Arising in Chemical Processing
• MSDS

Cryogens

• Liquid Oxygen
• Liquid Nitrogen and Argon
• Liquid Carbon Dioxide
• Liquefied Natural Gas MSDS

Day 3: Compressed Gases

• Acetylene
• Air
• Ammonia
• Carbon Dioxide
• Carbon Monoxide
• Chlorine
• Hydrogen
• Hydrogen Chloride
• Hydrogen Sulphide
• Liquefied Petroleum Gases
• Methane
• Nitrogen
• Nitrogen Oxides
• Oxygen
• Ozone
• Sulphur Dioxide

Monitoring Techniques

• Selected General Analytical Techniques for Monitoring Environmental Pollution
• Gases and Vapours
• Particulates
• Monitoring Water Quality
• Monitoring Land Pollution
• Monitoring Air Pollution
• Flammable Gases
• Toxic Particulates
• Official Methods
• Sampling Strategies
• Selected Strategies for Determining Employees Exposure to Airborne Chemicals
• Pollution Monitoring Strategies in Incident Investigation

Radioactive Chemicals

• Hazards
• Types of Radiation
• Control Measures
• MSDS

Day 4: Safety by Design

• Design Procedures
• Layout
• Storage
• Equipment Design
• Equipment in Hazardous Area
• Piping Arrangements
• Fire Protection
• Installation and Operation

Operating Procedures

• Commissioning Operation
• Maintenance
• Pressure Systems
• Emergency Procedures
• Spillage
• MSDS
• First Aid
• Personal Protection
• Medical Screening
• Monitoring Standards
• Training

Marketing

• Classification
• Packaging
• Labelling
• Information
• MSDS

Day 5: Transport of Chemicals

• Road Transportation
• Rail, Air, Sea Transport
• Modes of Transport for Liquids, Gases and Solids
• Loading and Unloading
• Container Filling/Discharging
• MSDS

Chemical & The Environment: Monitoring & Protection

• Legislative Control
• Waste Management
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Control of Atmospheric Emissions
• MSDS
• Liquid Effluent Treatment Operations
• Control of Solid Waste
• Monitoring and Auditing
• Chemical Spill Clean Up