Training Room 2
1. Training Room 2
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Training Room 2: Workplace Safety in Action
Chemicals are present in every part of your work and home life. Watch "Dealing with Chemical Safety" to learn more about the risks and hazards of chemicals and what control measures can be instituted for the safe storage and transportation of chemicals.
The dangers of hazardous materials can come from an explosion, fire, skin contact, breathing in, or swallowing the chemicals. The level of risk usually depends on one or more of six factors.
As you learned in HCS3000, employers are required to instruct all workers who work with or are in the proximity of controlled products (hazardous materials). Controlled products is the term given to hazardous chemicals that are regulated by law.
Explore the laws that state the responsibilites of employers and you, the worker, when you are working around controlled products in Part 4 of the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Code.
With your classmates, discuss what you discovered about chemical-hazard laws in Alberta and why this legislation is needed.
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how much pressure there is
- how easily the material burns or explodes
- how much of the material there is
- how toxic the material is
- how the material enters your body
- how concentrated the material is