The 2 days workshop is to train laboratory technicians/laboratory assistants in the best practices in safe handling of chemicals to avoid injury, ill-health or both to them. The workshop will explain how chemicals in the workplace can be absorbed by chemical handler, the dose-response relationship, duration and frequency of chemical exposure that determine the severity of injury or ill-health.

Workshop objectives

The objective of the workshop is to increase safety awareness and to learn:

• the common safety rules and practices in the laboratory
• the different types of hazardous chemicals and their properties
  

i. chemical carcinogen
ii. reproductive toxin
iii. particularly hazardous substances
iv. flammable chemicals
v. peroxide-forming chemicals
vi. water-reactive chemicals
vii. oxidizer
viii. reducer
ix. unstable chemicals
x. compressed gases

MR. LIM AH SEE