HABC Level 2 Award in COSHH Including Risk Assessments

Aims and Objectives

Assessment Criteria – The learner can:

• Outline employers and employees duties relating to hazardous substances at work

• Outline the consequences for non-compliance with statutory duties

• List the ways in which an employer can communicate hazardous substances safety information

• Define the terms hazard and risk with respect to hazardous substances

• List the different forms that hazardous substances can take

• Outline the health and safety effects that may arise following exposure or release of hazardous substances

• Outline the routes that hazardous substances can enter the body

• Describe how risk assessments reduce accidents and ill health at work

• Outline the five step process of risk assessment

• Outline the control hierarchy in respect of safe use, handling, transporting, storage and disposal of substances hazardous to health

• Outline the types of information that should be referred to for the safe identification and use of hazardous substances

• Describe the general procedures that should be in place for dealing with an incident involving hazardous substances

Outcomes

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

• Understand the law relating to hazardous substances in the workplace

• Understand how risk assessments contribute to the safe use of hazardous substances in the workplace 

• Understand the precautions and procedures necessary to ensure the risks associated with hazardous substances are properly controlled

Course Fee

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