Teaches your employees what they need to know about Hazards Communication.
Regular Labels, NFPA Labels and MSDSs explained in everyday English or Spanish. This helps your employees understand everything in a fun simple way.

The training includes

-ANSI regulations
-OSHA regulations
-MSDS reviews
-Final test
-Certificate of completion


Who can (and need) to be trained?

  • Seminars are for regular workers exposed to Hazard Materials.
  • Seminars for Key Personnel who works and manage employees handling hazardous materials.


1. Hazardous Materials
         a. Safety & Job Description =  Employee Safety Responsibilities
         b. Injuries and Illnesses at work
         c. Hazardous Materials: Definition
         d. A brief history about Hazard Communication (standard) -OSHA/ANSI
         e. The Right to Know: Hazard Communication Standard and Proposition 65                                          i.  Employee rights
                                         ii. Topco Sales: Written Hazard Communication Program

2. Format and Meaning of information: Hazardous Materials Labels and MSDSs
        a. Chemical Labels Requirements
        b. Precautionary statements about human health hazards in hazardous materials labeling:
            Danger-Warning-Caution
        c. Reading and interpreting some of the most common Labels of the chemical used at the
            workplace
        d. Marking and Placarding
                                          i. How to read HazCom labels and signs
                                          ii.How to read the NFPA  labeling  system
3.MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet)
       a. American National Standards Institute
       b. The new ANSI MSDS format
                                          i. Who needs to read them? How to read them?
                                          ii. Reading and interpreting some of the most important MSDSs’ at
                                              the worksite
4. Health hazards
       a. General Hazards: including acute and chronic effects, delayed effects, and sensitization as
           defined in labels and MSDSs
       b. Routes by which hazardous materials can enter the body
       c. Employee  expose  limits
       d. Signs and symptoms of overexposure
       e. Routine, emergency decontamination and First Aid
       f.  Personal Protection equipment
       i.  Use and proper maintenance
       g. Warning about taking hazardous materials or hazardous materials containers home.
       h. Safety & Topco Sales: Hazard Communication Program and Hazardous Materials
                                          i.   The location of the written Hazardous Communication Information
                                          ii.  Hazards  Substances:  Storage and Handling
                                          iii. Engineering  Controls- Employers Responsibility
5. Summary of most important Hazardous Materials at Topco Sales
     a. Limitations of this summary
     b. Reading summary