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Chemical Safety

  • 5
  • Compliance
  • 30 min
  • Self-Paced
  • Credit Type: No SCECHs
Enroll in this course

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) estimates that 32 million employees work with at least one chemical hazard everyday, including school teachers and support staff. This awareness-level course will help you recognize what types of chemicals are in your workplace, what their hazards are, and how to protect yourself from harmful exposure. Recognize hazards associated with common chemical classifications, the importance of safety controls while working with chemicals, and what you and your employer’s responsibilities are when it comes to chemical storage and handling.

In this course, you will:

  • Learn how to read common chemical labels,
  • Recognize chemical safety tools and strategies,
  • Understand the hierarchy of hazard controls,
  • Identify required safe handling and storage procedures, and
  • Identify emergency procedures in facilities where chemicals are present.

Who should take this course?

Administrator
Counselor
Mentor
Support Staff
Teacher

What grade level(s) does this course apply to?

Early Childhood
High School
Lower Elementary
Middle School
Post-Secondary
Upper Elementary

Course Vendor

SafetySkills

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Limited Course Capacity

We’re sorry to inform you that we have reached capacity for several of our Semester 1 and Trimester 1 courses. You’ll notice when attempting to enroll students in our Student Learning Portal that some courses are unavailable. While we are no longer accepting new enrollments for these courses at this time, many courses continue to remain open for enrollment.

With many students across the state 100% remote, demand for our online courses is greater than ever before. Because every course we offer is taught by a Michigan-certified teacher, this high volume of enrollments has created capacity issues for our teachers who provide each and every student with individual feedback.

While the Michigan Virtual team anticipated and planned for significant increases in student enrollments this Fall, the increased demand we’ve experienced has been unprecedented. As a result, we are taking steps to hire even more part-and full-time teachers to support larger numbers of student enrollments for Semester 2 as well as for Trimester 2 and 3. 

For schools that still need online learning options this year, please fill out the form at the bottom of our virtual pathways page to meet with someone to discuss other solutions. While some of our teacher-led courses are full, we may still have the capacity to help you in upcoming terms or can discuss timing to implement a whole-school or collaborative program in which local teachers from your school/district use our online course content to teach students. We also have free course content and resources available for you to use.

We know this is an incredibly stressful time for all, and we’re sorry if the courses you’re looking for are unavailable. We never want to turn away a student who wants to learn from us. Our top concern, however, is student success, and we have a policy to not take on additional enrollments if we cannot guarantee that all students will have a quality online learning experience. 

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we navigate the unusually high volume of enrollments we are receiving.