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This course provides essential insights into the procedures and monitoring equipment used in situations involving hazardous materials, following the guidelines established by OSHA’s HAZWOPER standard. Learning to detect, measure, and control the presence of hazardous substances is critical to protecting worker health and ensuring safe operations in potentially contaminated environments.

Key topics covered:

  • Detection of hazardous materials in the workplace
  • Use of direct-reading monitoring instruments
  • Devices for sample collection
  • Identification of Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health (IDLH) hazards
  • Special considerations in confined spaces
  • General site monitoring procedures
  • Perimeter, periodic, and personal monitoring
  • And more

By the end of the course you will have learned:

  • How to effectively detect the presence of hazardous materials
  • The operation and application of direct-reading monitoring instruments
  • How to safely and accurately use sample collection devices
  • How to respond appropriately to IDLH conditions
  • Safe procedures for conducting monitoring in confined spaces
  • The distinctions and uses of various types of monitoring: perimeter, periodic, and personal

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