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Chemical Spills, Safety Precautions & Response Action

Avoiding Harm from Chemical Spills

Chemical Spills, Safety Precautions & Response Action
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

14-18 Apr 2025
Istanbul
$5,950
14-18 Jul 2025
Dubai
$5,950
06-10 Oct 2025
Dubai
$5,950
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course

Training Overview

Training Overview

This Chemical Spills, Safety Precautions & Response Action training course equips participants with the knowledge to recognize the risks associated with chemical releases and implement effective prevention and response measures. Chemicals are essential in modern life, but operational faults or equipment failures can lead to hazardous spills, which pose serious risks to health and the environment.

Through this course, you will learn about incident and emergency plans, as well as the correct actions to take in the event of accidental releases. Key topics covered include:

  • Understanding the hazards of chemicals
  • Safe practices for managing potential chemical releases
  • Using spill kits effectively to control spills
  • Selecting appropriate personal protective equipment
  • Developing and implementing incident response plans

What are the goals?

By the end of this Coventry Academy training course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the basic terms associated with chemical releases and explain the terms “containment” and “confinement”
  • Recognize where spills are likely to occur and develop work practices that can prevent spills from occurring
  • Define the goals of spill control
  • Identify procedures and actions to take when discovering or responding to a spill of hazardous materials or waste
  • Describe the roles and responsibilities of personnel in incidents and emergency situations

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is for Management, Supervisors and Employees who use chemicals, produce chemicals, come into contact with chemicals, or sell chemicals as part of their daily working life and who all need to be aware of the correct safe procedure to react to a chemical spill effectively and will all benefit from this training course.

This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Plant/Operations Personnel & Managers, Shift Supervisors & Shift Team Leaders
  • Laboratory Personnel
  • Emergency Incident Wardens
  • Those who may be required to respond to workplace incidents of a possible or actual release of a chemical

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This Coventry Academy training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes a combination of lecture, video, case studies, group discussion and participation in group/individual workshop session activities. Delegates are encouraged to bring specific experiences and issues they are facing to the session for group discussion.

The Course Content

Day One: Hazardous Chemicals
  • Intro
  • Hazardous materials
  • Identification of hazards
  • Examples of Different sorts of spills
Day Two: Spill Prevention and Control
  • Work practices that can prevent spills from occurring
  • Incidents and types of emergency situations
  • The goals of spill control
  • Responder’s safety
  • Spill Response and Clean-up Procedures
  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Day Three: Developing a Spill Response Plan
  • Material Safety Data Sheet
  • Risk Assessment
  • On-site Emergency Plans
  • Training, Exercises & Drills
  • Roles and responsibilities of personnel
  • Off-site Emergency Plans
Day Four: Evacuation, Spill Control Materials and Kit
  • Identify additional resources for information on spill response procedures.
  • Evacuation
  • Missing Persons
  • Environmental philosophy
  • Incident reporting & Communication
  • Recommended Spill Control Materials Inventory & Locations
Day Five: Clean-up & First Aid
  • Classic case studies
  • Specific Procedures
  • Doing it wrong/doing it right
  • Bioremediation
  • First Aid
  • Course Review