DR PHILLIP CRISP CHEMICAL SAFETY WORKSHOP-Tamworth

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DR PHILLIP CRISP CHEMICAL SAFETY WORKSHOP-Tamworth

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Hi All,

FYI,

Dr Phillip Crisp will be facilitating a one day workshop in Chemical Safety on March 7, 2017 at McCarthy Catholic College Tamworth. This Chemical Safety in Secondary Schools workshop is targeted at teachers and support staff in Science, TAS and Ground Staff. The invitation is extended to Schools from outside of our Diocese, so if you know of others within these faculties, please advise them.

Dr Crisp, RiskAssess Co-Founder and is the expert behind the risk assessment approach and the safety information in the system. He has over 40 years' experience in chemical laboratories and has been teaching laboratory safety for more than 20 years. He has consulted with many teachers and laboratory technicians to help produce a risk-assessment tool that is customised to school science experiments and complies with current legal requirements. Also having had over 40 years' experience working in University chemical laboratories, including acting as the OHS coordinator for the Faculty of Engineering at the University of NSW for a number of years. He wrote the majority of the appendices for the Chemical Safety in Schools package for the NSW DSE including Appendix D.

Attendees from non-diocesan schools are required to pay a sum of $165.00 per person

8.30 ­ Registration ­ Tea/Coffee
9.00 ­ Introduction
9.15 ­ How to avoid an 'accident'
10.00 ­ Risk Assessment: the logic and the process
11.00 ­ Morning Tea ­ provided
11.30 ­ Globally Harmonised System (GHS) for hazardous chemicals
12.30 ­ Dangerous chemicals
1.15 ­ Lunch ­ provided
2.00 ­ Safe use of chemical equipment
2.30 ­ Safe storage of chemicals
3.15 ­ Disposal of chemical wastes

Interested?....then please email kadams@mccarthy.nsw.edu.au

It is rare to have Dr Crisp in the North West Region and will be a rewarding workshop.

Cheers, Kerry
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