Course sheet · 2027 catalogueOccupational health and safety
Laboratory Safety
One day to work safely in a testing or analysis laboratory: reagents and chemicals, biological agents, gases, glassware, heating equipment and waste. The course starts from your safety data sheets, your methods and the layout of your benches, and ends with a laboratory inspection carried out by the participants.
Duration1 day
Request a quoteObjectives
- Identify the hazards specific to the laboratory: chemical, biological, physical, and those linked to gases and equipment
- Read a safety data sheet and derive the precautions for handling and storing reagents
- Use fume cupboards, microbiological safety cabinets and protective equipment correctly
- Manage laboratory waste, spills and emergencies: splash, cut, burn, inhalation
- Inspect a laboratory and propose prevention actions
Programme
Day 1 — morning
- Laboratory accidents and exposures: lessons learned
- Chemical risk: labelling, SDS, incompatible reagents, preparing solutions, quantities at the bench
- Biological risk in microbiology: good practice, containment, decontamination
- Compressed and liquefied gases, heating equipment, centrifuges, autoclaves, glassware
Day 1 — afternoon (workshop)
- Collective protection: fume cupboards, microbiological safety cabinets, ventilation, and checking they work properly
- Personal protective equipment, safety showers and eye wash
- Waste: sorting, labelling, holding before collection; what to do in case of a spill
- Workshop: laboratory inspection by the participants, feedback and knowledge test
Teaching methods
- Work on your SDSs, your test methods and your records
- Laboratory inspection in sub-groups with an observation checklist
- Spill-handling exercise with the laboratory’s absorbent kit
- Cases of published laboratory accidents
- Knowledge test
Assessment and documents
Knowledge test and feedback on the inspection carried out in the workshop, plus a day+1 learner feedback survey. Each participant receives a numbered training certificate, verifiable online; the laboratory receives the training report with the inspection findings.
Bilingual materials for every participant; each classroom course comes with its digital twin on OmniLearn.
Frequently asked questions
Is the course suitable for an in-house factory laboratory?
Yes. It is intended for the quality control laboratories of food, chemical or pharmaceutical plants as well as for service testing laboratories. The content follows your activities: physico-chemistry, microbiology or both.
Is this training for ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation?
No. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 deals with the laboratory’s competence and the validity of results. This day is about protecting people. The two complement each other: an accredited laboratory must also control its working conditions.
Can cleaning staff attend?
It is advisable. Cleaners and maintenance technicians work in the laboratory without knowing all its hazards; the rules that concern them are covered during the session.
What should we prepare before the session?
The list of the most-used reagents, a few SDSs and the laboratory plan. These documents are used for the exercises and to prepare the inspection checklist.
Practical information
- Duration
- 1 day
- Audience
- Laboratory technicians and managers, analysts, microbiologists, cleaning and maintenance staff working in the laboratory
- Prerequisites
- No prerequisites
- Group size
- Groups of 6 to 12 participants, in-company
- Format
- In-company, face to face on your site
- Language
- French, Darija or English; bilingual materials
- Funding
- OFPPT special training contracts (TFP), GIAC, Maroc PME: we prepare the applications with you, at no extra cost.
- Programme customisation
- Programme adapted to your procedures, your equipment and your audience
Organise this course
Price and dates on quote, depending on your headcount, your site and your preferred period.
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Our consultants can also support the project on your site. ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory accreditation in Morocco: the SEMAC route
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