Chemical Safety Awareness & Face-Fit

Provide an awareness and understanding of chemicals and how to use them safely.

Participants will understand the physical and health hazards of chemicals used in the workplace and the importance of the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) to identify methods of protection using safe work practices, emergency procedures and personal protective equipment (PPE).

•     The definition of a hazardous substance

•     Examples of hazardous substances in the workplace

•     Routes of entry into the body for hazardous substances

•     Risk Assessment principles and practice Hazard identification

•     The 2007 Code of Practice for the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Chemical Agents) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 619 of 2001)

•     P.P.E. - Mask Fitting

•     Classroom Training

•     Whiteboard - Illustrations

•     Videos

•     Discussions

½ day

Full Safetech Certification of Attendance is provided on successful completion of this course.

12

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.