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In January 1991, The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) released a standard governing occupational exposure to hazardous materials in biology and chemistry laboratories. This regulation requires companies to implement a training program that identifies potential hazards in the lab, provides instruction on the precautions laboratory workers must take to prevent accidents and injuries from occurring, and procedures to contain or minimize the damages that result from these incidents.
Moxie Media distributes The Laboratory Safety Training Program, a comprehensive program that helps meet the training requirements mandated by the new OSHA Standard. It provides laboratory workers with easy to understand information that will help ensure that the laboratory remains a safe and productive working environment.
Course Outline:
The program includes a VHS videotape and student workbook, and covers the following material:
Working with Hazardous Chemicals
This section is designed as an overview of the hazards and risks employees routinely encounter in their daily laboratory work. The topics include toxic chemicals, flammables, combustibles, explosives, corrosives, irritants, and reactives. Other lab hazards such as those associated with glassware, compressed gases, radiation, biohazards, electrical hazards, and cryogenics are also featured.
This section demonstrates how employees can best protect themselves when working with hazardous materials by understanding and using MSDS's, safe lab practices, personal protective equipment, and proper storage and waste disposal procedures.
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Handling Emergencies & Designing a Safety Protocol
This section focuses on specific emergency procedures, reviewing a safety protocol, and where to find additional information about lab safety procedures. Actual simulations of laboratory situations help to emphasize the necessity for a comprehensive chemical hygiene plan.
Like the interactive videodisc version, Moxie Media's VHS videotape version of the Laboratory Safety Training Program contains the same engaging dramatizations of real-life scenarios with live action video and audio, high quality graphics and animation.
The accompanying Student Workbook contains practice questions and exercises to test the learner's understanding of the material presented throughout the course, as well as additional reference material.
Also available in interactive videodisc format, soon to be available in CD-ROM format.
This VHS videotape product is normally sold in NTSC format. Contact Moxie Media for PAL format.
