Learn to complete a Dust Hazard Analysis for your organization to meet the requirements of NFPA 652 and to help prepare for the anticipated 2025 updates to the OHS Regulation for B.C. businesses that handle or generate potentially combustible dusts.
We are offering this updated training in the Lower Mainland for the first time to address the much wider need across all sectors with the new combustible dust regulation coming in 2025.
Attend the full 2-day, 16-hour certificate course (regularly priced at $1200) for at a significantly discounted Make It Safe rate ($499 for members and $599 for non-members). This special ticket also includes bonus access to Make It Safe Online Oct 30-31.
In this comprehensive two-day certificate course, you will learn:
- What a dust hazard analysis is, and why you need one
- The specifics of a DHA according to the NFPA 652 standard
- Methodology, including best practices in equipment and approach
- Industry-specific examples and best practices in wood, food, grains, metals, and other materials
- How to evaluate whether combustible dust is present, and the degree of risk
- How to assess credible methods of dust suspension and sources of ignition
- Guidelines for identifying potential building and security hazards
- How to assess the effects, severity, and priority
- Recommended safeguards
- Effective housekeeping methods, procedures, documentation, and recommendations
- Employee/contractor training
- Documentation best practices
- Safe Work Procedures
- Maintenance and inspections
- Applied explosion protection and prevention equipment – Application, limitations, inspections and maintenance
- Equipment and best practices in explosion containment and venting
- Ignition source prevention strategies
- Managing change in your organization to address the risk
- How the changes to the OHS Regulation in B.C. for combustible dust impact your business
Unlike regular conference sessions, this 16-hour certificate course may be eligible for funding through the B.C. Training Grant. We recommend that you reference the full course description on the Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC website in your application—this page: https://safetyalliancebc.ca/course/dust-hazard-analysis. If you have questions on the Grant or application process, please contact the Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC office for assistance.
