Title: Tailgate Meeting
Course: Open PRO110 Safety, Health & Environment > Section: Module 1: Getting Started - Introduction To Safety Health and Environment, & Hazard Identification and Classification

What's a tailgate meeting any way?

Module Overview | Module Learning Objectives
How to Approach this Module

1. In order to achieve those learning objectives to the right, you will have to take action! For this module, you should:
2. First read, watch or listen to the Talk Through It mini-lectures.
3. Next Read the chapters assigned for this mod
4. Participate in the Toolbox and the Walk Through It discussion forum as outlined within the forum
5. Complete the You Do It assignments
6. Finally take the quiz for this mod.
After finishing this module you will be able to:

- Recall industrial accidents and other events in the process industries that have impacted safety, health, and the environment.
- Understand the necessity of occupational safety regulations.
- Describe governmental agencies and regulations that address safety, health, and environmental issues:
- OSHA
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Department  of Transportation (DOT) Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
- Discuss how you can impact safety, health, and environmental issues.
- Describe good safety habits.
- Use safe work practices.
- Follow all procedures.
- Attend training and use documentation
- Perform housekeeping and sanitation
- Handle materials properly.
- Identify four main types of hazards to health and safety.
- Explain the various routes of entry that chemical and biological hazards use to enter the human body
- Describe the short-term and long-term effects that hazards can have on an individual's health and safety.
- Identify types of environmental hazards.
- Describe the short-term and long-term effects of hazards on the environment.
- Identify the various chemical hazards (gases, liquids, and particulates) found in the process industries and discuss the potential effects such chemicals have on safety, health, and the environment.
- Identify specific categories of hazardous chemicals used in the process industries
- Describe the potential health: and environmental hazards posed by each.
- Explain the purpose and function of labeling systems found in local process industries.
- Understand the purpose and components of an MSDS.
- Discuss the primary government regulations relating to chemical hazards.