Online Chemical Safety at Work Awareness
Key Information
Duration:Self-Paced Learning
Online Learning, completed in your own time at a location of your choice.
Once you have signed up to your course, you have 60 days of accessibility to complete your assessment.
Price (excl GST)
$185 Per Person
Understanding hazardous substances, recognising risks, and working safely with chemicals in the workplace.
This online awareness course provides learners with foundational knowledge of hazardous substances in the workplace. It covers what hazardous substances are, how they are classified under the Globally Harmonised System (GHS), how to interpret labels and Safety Data Sheets (SDS), and how exposure can impact people and the environment.
Learners will gain an understanding of acute and chronic health effects, environmental risks, the hierarchy of controls, and appropriate emergency response actions.
This course does not award NZQA unit standards; however, it is closely aligned with US31292 – Demonstrate knowledge of workplace procedures relating to hazardous substances .
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Define hazardous substances and explain their intrinsic hazardous properties.
- Identify hazardous substances using GHS classifications, pictograms, and signal words.
- Describe acute and chronic health effects and environmental impacts of exposure.
- Explain the four exposure pathways (absorption, inhalation, ingestion, injection).
- Locate and interpret key information on Safety Data Sheets (SDS).
- Read and interpret GHS labels, including hazard and precautionary statements.
- Apply the hierarchy of controls to manage hazardous substance risks.
- Describe appropriate actions for spills, exposures, and emergency situations.
- Understand workplace responsibilities and escalation procedures relating to hazardous substances.
Entry Criteria:
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All students are required to have a level of written and oral English equivalent to NCEA level 1 (year 11) or IELTS 5.5 or higher, to be eligible to attend our courses. The person responsible for making bookings or authorising attendance on the course must agree to these Terms and Conditions prior to acceptance of their student(s) onto the course. Where a student does not meet our English language requirement a reader/writer must be supplied by the student or the person responsible for authorising the student’s attendance. The reader/writer cannot be another student attending the same course.
