HAZWOPER: The ANSWI Material Safety Data Sheet Interactive CD-ROM Course

Produced

• 2003

Key Features

Available in English and Spanish CD-ROM versions.

In 1976, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to regulate the handling of hazardous materials and waste "from cradle to grave." Since then other regulations have followed, including OSHA's 29 CFR 1910.120, also known as HAZWOPER. As part of these regulations there are a number of requirements for employee training, depending on an employee's specific level of involvement with hazardous materials.

The Interactive CD-ROM training course "HAZWOPER: The ANSI Material Safety Data Sheet" educates employees about the ANSI MSDS format and reviews how the information in an MSDS can help them work safely with potentially hazardous chemicals. Areas covered in the course include:

• Importance of the MSDS.
• The MSDS's role in the Hazard Communication Standard.
• Advantages of the ANSI format.
• Four basic questions the ANSI MSDS answers:
     - What is the material and what are its hazards?
     - What should I do if a problem occurs?
     - What precautions should I take when working with this material?
     - Is there anything else I should know about thus substance?
• A review of the sections in the ANSI Material Safety Data Sheet.
• ...and more!

Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course from the Interactive CD-ROM Training Library provides the most cost-effective training available today. The course features platform software which installs automatically, and comprehensive user's and trainer's guides. The course takes about 45 minutes to complete (depending on the employee), and is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood... and retained.

Also designed with the training manager in mind, all courses in the Interactive CD-ROM Training Library come with a complete learning management system (LMS) at no additional cost. Using this system, trainers can set up "pre" and "post" tests... establish log-in procedures... even define and set up curriculum for various job classes. The system also allows employee performance information to be collected and organized through a powerful relational database, which can generate a number of recordkeeping and tracking reports... and has a database "import/export" feature, which permits information to be transferred to and from an external database (such as a company's personnel database and/or another learning management system).

The course is one of over 100 titles currently available in the Interactive CD-ROM Training Library. Other interactive courses on safety and regulatory compliance topics (including Spanish language courses) are currently being developed and will be available soon.

Available in English and Spanish.