Turn three paragraphs of the Laboratory Standard into a plan that works
This online course is for Chemical Hygiene Officers (CHOs) who know the rules on particularly hazardous substances, exposure monitoring and medical consultation, and now have to run them. It covers finding your select carcinogens, reproductive toxins and highly toxic substances, and setting up designated areas, procedures and approvals. It also covers deciding when to measure, telling people the results, getting a worker to a physician, and keeping the records for thirty years.
It is written for CHOs in education (school districts, private and independent schools, colleges and universities) and in industry (research, testing, quality control and manufacturing laboratories). Every lesson shows the step in a school or district and in a company or lab.
What you will learn
- Find Your Particularly Hazardous Substances: the three groups, the tests for a select carcinogen, and screening your inventory into a register.
- The Designated Area: choosing a whole lab, part of a lab or a hood, and the signs and access control that go with it.
- Written Procedures and Prior Approval: the written procedure for each risky use, and running an approval request with limits and an end date.
- Containment, Waste and Cleanup: hoods and glove boxes, contaminated and acutely hazardous waste under EPA’s rules, and decontamination.
- Deciding When to Measure: “reason to believe”, action levels, the substance-specific standards, and bringing in an industrial hygienist.
- Telling People the Results: the written notice within 15 working days, and what happens when a result is over the action level.
- Medical Consultation in Practice: the three triggers, the physician’s terms, what the physician must be given, and the written opinion.
- Records That Last 30 Years: what 1910.1450(j) and 1910.1020 require: how long, who may see the records, the yearly notice, and transfers.
Finish with a working plan
Each module ends with a Task, and each Task writes one part of your own plan: a particularly hazardous substances register, a designated-area plan and printable sign, a procedure template and prior-approval form, and a waste and cleanup checklist. It continues with an exposure assessment record, a results notice with the 15-working-day deadline worked out, a physician arrangement and information packet, and a records plan. Fillable templates are included for every part, and every module closes with “What you learned” flip cards and a quiz.
Why this course
- Built on the rules, read at the source: OSHA’s Laboratory Standard and its Appendix A (29 CFR 1910.1450), the records rule (29 CFR 1910.1020), the formaldehyde standard as a worked example (29 CFR 1910.1048), and the Hazard Communication classifications. It also uses EPA’s rules for acutely hazardous waste (40 CFR 261.7, 261.33, 262.13 and 262.15) and Prudent Practices in the Laboratory (2011), each cited in the lesson that uses it.
- Doing, not recalling: a companion to the NRCC CHO Exam Test Prep course, which teaches these rules for the exam; this course teaches you to put them in place.
- Two settings, one course: school and company scenarios in pairs, with strong answers to compare against yours.
- Online and self-paced, with a certificate on completion.
