Hazardous Substances

Dangerous Goods Training

Dangerous Goods Training: Industry News And Updates Guest Post Dangerous goods are defined as any substance that poses a significant risk to health, safety, or property when transported by land, sea, or air. Due to the risks that dangerous goods pose to the public welfare, shipping of these goods needs to be firmly regulated. Such [...]

HSDG Audits and Checklists

Checklists

Hazardous Substances Dangerous Goods Audits, Checklists and Risk Assessments Bit of a collection of HSDG audit tools, guidelines, checklists and example risk assessments – please send us any docs of links you may have found Hazardous Substances Audit Tool FREE RISK ASSESSMENT TEMPLATES Lead Audit Checklist Handle with Care – Dangerous Goods Management Chemical Laboratory [...]

URGENT HAZARD ALERT

Hazard Alerts

Urgent Hazard Alert In doing our research on the potential dangers of hand sanitisers containing carcinogens and alcohol (more info here), we discovered the extreme hazards associated with the uncontrolled use of a chemical known as DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE or HYDROGEN HYDROXIDE. Most people would have never heard of this chemical name (which should be [...]

Mesothelioma – Chinese Drywall – the new asbestos?

Asbestos

Early indications were that the Chinese Drywall problem would be the next asbestos or black mold. However, although the issue has been huge in the US with up to 100,000 homes affected, the product has only been used over a relatively short period of time in a confined geographical area and is unlikely to have [...]