Toxic Industrial Chemicals

1. To understand and correlate properties and harmful effects of hazardous chemical.
2. To understand and adopt procedures for hazardous chemicals based CLP Regulation.
3. To be acquainted with the relevant regulations in the field of hazardous chemicals.
4. To correlate potentially harmful effects of specific hazardous industrial chemicals on human health and environment with their physical and chemical properties.
5. Cognition of international agreements and lows in the area of dangerous goods transportation.
6. Recognition of factors important for the transportation of dangerous goods and potential hazards.
7. The development of critical way of thinking on the dangerous goods transportation process and possible influences on human health, natural and built environment.

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1. Lectures: Defining the properties of hazardous chemicals. Classification and labeling of hazardous chemicals according to CLP Regulation. Laboratory practice: Field practice
2. Lectures: Basic terms and concepts in toxicology. Relationship dose-response. Classification of harmful effects. Laboratory practice: Field practice
3. Lectures: Routes of exposure and absorbance of hazardous chemicals. Laboratory practice: Field practice
4. Lectures: Seveso Directive and Regulation of major accidents involving dangerous substances. Laboratory practice: Field practice
5. Lectures: Transport of dangerous goods in road traffic. Classifaction of dangerous goods and labeling of dangerous goods according to ADR treaty. ADR requirements. Physical-chemical processes characteristics for dangerous goods, effects of dangerous goods on human health, natural and built environment. Laboratory practice: Field practice
6. Lectures: Properties of flammable gases, explosive, conditions for an explosion, explosive limits. Laboratory practice: Field practice
7. Lectures: Partial exam Laboratory practice: Field practice
8. Lectures: Properties of flammable liquids, flammable solids, ignition sources, combustion process, types of blazes, basic concepts of fire extinguishing methods Laboratory practice: Field practice
9. Lectures: Properties of flammable solids, self-accelerated decomposition. Oxidizing chemicals. Poisons. Effects of gases and vapors on human health. Infective chemicals. Radioactivity. Corrosive chemicals. Laboratory practice: Field practice
10. Lectures: Labeling of vehicles for transports of dangerous goods. HazMat Placards and UN numbers. Shipping papers for transport of dangerous goods. Laboratory practice: Field practice
11. Lectures: Representatives of chemical groups of hazardous industrial chemicals. Inorganic chemicals I: metals, transition metals and their compounds. Halogen elements (chlorine, bromide, iodide). Laboratory practice: Field practice
12. Lectures: Inorganic chemicals II: nitrogen, sulfur, carbon, and phosphorous compounds. Acids and bases. Laboratory practice: Field practice
13. Lectures: Organic chemicals I: compounds with oxygen (alcohols, aldehydes and ketones, acids) Laboratory practice: Field practice
14. Lectures: Organic chemicals II: compounds with nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, and halogen elements. Laboratory practice: Field practice
15. Lectures: Partial exam Laboratory practice: Field practice