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Target Audience: This training course is for all staff and post graduate students who work with dangerous substances or explosive atmospheres

A dangerous substance is any natural or artificial substance which is explosive, oxidising, extremely flammable, highly flammable or flammable, including:

• liquids,
• vapours,
• gases under pressure (gas in a cylinder),
• gases,
• substances that can corrode metals which could cause structural damage reducing the integrity of structures (if not suitably contained),
• powder / dust (solid particles or fibrous materials)
• and equipment that might leak or generate a dangerous substance.

An explosive atmosphere means a mixture, under atmospheric conditions, of air and one or more dangerous substance.

The course will explain potential DSEAR control measures, such as:

• Information, instruction and training
• Engineering and Design;
• Workplace Process and Management Systems (where appropriate to the nature of the activity or operation);
• Zoning and Control of Explosive atmospheres;
• Storage;
• Emergency procedures;
• Waste Disposal.

Prerequisites