1.2 Handling Hazardous Substances

• Meaning of hazardous substances as materials that can harm people, animals or the environment
• Types of hazardous substances at home and in school: flammable, toxic, corrosive, irritant, oxidising and gases under pressure
• Identifying hazardous substances from labels, pictograms, signal words and precautionary statements
• Routes of exposure: inhalation, skin contact, ingestion, eyes and injection through cuts
• Safe storage: cool, ventilated, locked, segregated, upright and labelled
• Personal protective equipment and ventilation matched to the hazard
• Safe handling and transferring of hazardous substances
• First aid for skin, eye, inhalation and swallowing exposure
• Disposal of hazardous substances and their containers

• identify hazardous substances used at home and in school
• interpret labels and pictograms on containers of hazardous substances
• observe safety precautions when storing and handling hazardous substances
• administer basic first aid for exposure to hazardous substances
• appreciate the need for care when handling hazardous substances

“How do we handle hazardous substances safely?”

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1. Six kinds of hazard
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   Flammable, toxic, corrosive, irritant, oxidising, and gas under pressure.
2. Reading the label
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Pictogram, signal word, hazard statements, precautionary statements.
3. Where they are
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   Workshop, science room, farm store and household, and the one nobody notices.
4. How it gets into you
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Inhalation, skin, ingestion, eyes and injection. Each needs its own protection.
5. Storing them safely
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Cool, ventilated, locked, segregated, upright and labelled.
6. Protection that works
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Match the protection to the hazard, and ventilate before you reach for a mask.
7. Handling and transferring
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Read, protect, pour, close. And five things never done.
8. Spills and first aid
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Fifteen minutes of water, and send the label with the casualty.
9. Disposal, and the whole sub-strand
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Read it, store it, handle it, end it. Never down a drain.