COURSE SYLLABUS
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL TRAINING
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide the Iron Worker student with training in
hazardous material legal rights and responsibilities, health effects, hazard
recognition, information sources, personal protective equipment and respirators,
site practices and hazard control, decontamination, medical surveillance, site
control, monitoring, emergency response and confined spaces.
Course Objective:
The objective of this course is to enable a student to safely work at hazardous
waste sites.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
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Describe legal rights and responsibilities and the health effects of hazardous
materials and be able to recognize hazards.
Use hazardous materials information sources.
Demonstrate the correct use of personal protective equipment and respirators
as well as appropriate site practices and hazard control.
Describe processes and procedures for decontamination, medical
surveillance and site control.
Describe processes and procedures for monitoring, emergency response and
for working in confined spaces.
Target Audience:
This course is designed for apprentices and journeymen.
Length of Course:
This course is designed to be offered during a total of 40 hours – 30 hours of
classroom instruction and 10 hours of hands on training. It is recommended that
classroom and hands-on lab or shop sessions be combined where appropriate.
For example, the instructor may spend 90 minutes in lecture in the classroom
followed by 90 minutes in the lab or work area. This means the course may
consist of 13 or 14 3-hour sessions. When appropriate, more course sessions
may be held for shorter periods of time in order to provide the student with
sufficient opportunities to learn the content.
This course may also be offered during 5 days as a 40-hour course. Course
sessions may be also conducted during evenings in blocks of 3 or 4 hours.
Location of the Course:
All course sessions will be held at the facilities used by the local union. Hands-on
activities may be held in an inside lab or work area and/or may be held in an
outside work area.
Instructor Information:
The instructor for this course is a journeyman Iron Worker with experience and
qualifications to conduct this course, who is able to perform all of the skills, and
who has been trained as an instructor.
Course Materials:
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Hazardous Material Training (Reference Manual)
Hazardous Material Training (Student Workbook)
Hazardous Material Training Instructor Guide (for instructors only)
Hazardous Material Training video series
Hazardous Materials Training CD-ROM (for instructors only)
Assignment Sheets (in the Student Workbook)
Tests (in the Instructor Guide)
A Word about Safety
The importance of safety will be addressed and reinforced in all hands-on
activities in the classroom, in the shop, and on the job site.
Course Assignments:
There will be a number of individual and small-group assignments during the
course. Students will complete these assignment sheets prior to and/or during
course sessions as determined by the instructor. There are also skills to be
demonstrated by the instructor and practiced by the students. The skills will be
demonstrated, practiced and evaluated in the hands-on lab area and/or outside
in a work area.
Course Grading Criteria:
To successfully complete this course, the student must successfully complete all
of the assignments, demonstrate the required hands-on skills, and pass the
knowledge test.
Course Attendance:
All course sessions are mandatory and while missed time can be made up,
missing a course session will affect your ability to successfully complete this
course. Speak with the instructor to arrange make-up time if necessary.
Course Schedule:
Note: The following Course Schedule shows the most common design – a 40hour course delivered over 5 days. If your course sessions are less than 8 hours,
you will need to adjust the number of sessions accordingly.
Date
Topics/Activities
Session 1
Welcome and introductions
Review of the course syllabus including the course objectives
Legal rights and responsibilities
Lunch
Work practices workshop
Hazard recognition
Session 2
Information sources
Personal protective equipment and respirators
Respirator workshop
Session 3
Site practices and hazard control
Decontamination workshop
Personal protective equipment
Session 4
Medical surveillance
Site control practice activity
Monitoring
Emergency response
Confined space
Session 5
Final examination
Site simulation
Examination results and discussion
Course evaluation and closing