Chemical and response capability building
Using our experience and global insights to support your organisation to understand risks, develop procedures, and improve staff capabilities by providing expertise across hazardous materials response, incident management, sustainable fuels and global chemical regulations.
Building organisational resilience
Organisations face a range of potential incidents across their operations from traditional disruptions, like accidents, injuries or spills, to the threat of major hazards at sites, such as fires, protests and large scale accidents.
The duty of care or legal obligations require organisations to provide incident response capabilities at a level suitable for the risk in their operations. A skilled incident management team should be prepared to respond to all types of incidents effectively, offering numerous benefits that directly impact resilience, reputation, and long-term success.
Working with expert organisations to improve incident management capabilities, assess skills gaps, develop policies, improve procedures, and provide scenario-based exercises and incident debriefing can enable organisations to mitigate risk and minimise incident impacts.
Speak to our experts about building your organisations response capabilities.
Courses designed for the chemical sector
Develop an understanding of the regulatory requirements of using chemicals in the workplace and how to put them into a practical context. Gain the tools and knowledge to safely discharge responsibilities in general and job specific areas with course content tailored to focus specifically on the regulations most relevant to your business.
Exclusively developed in conjunction with Responsible Care® experts from the Chemical Industries Association, the Chemical Business Association, and delivered by leading chemical regulations specialists this training is designed to support those understand the safety, risk, and compliance information about chemical value chains.
Training courses and consultancy across safety data sheets, chemical risk assessments and the UN globally harmonised system (GHS) regulations.
Prepare potential first responders to chemical incidents with knowledge and practical experience to ensure competence when dealing with an incident involving hazardous materials, potentially minimising the impact to operations, people, environment, assets and reputation with appropriate and swift response should an event occur.
Accredited by JOIFF and in alignment with the UK National Operational Guidance ‘Foundation for hazardous materials', health and safety legislation, and industry best practice, course content can be adapted in accordance with international standards.
An increased number of hazardous materials incidents over recent years, such as acid attacks, li-ion battery fires, illicit drugs labs and individual chemical exposures, means emergency services have a responsibility to ensure that their staff mobilised to such incidents are prepared to deal with what they face.
Our training programmes provide first responders, scientific advisors, or those with an incident command responsibility, with the theoretical knowledge and practical experience to be able to competently deal with an incident involving hazardous materials or detection, identification, and monitoring operations.
Online training solutions enabling you to feel better prepared
Our e-learning library, EMAQ+, has been offering training solutions since 1994 across a number of different categories, all of which have course content developed by our in-house subject matter experts. Each course provides a certificate of completion and can contribute towards your continued professional development (CPD).
More solutions for chemical companies
Chemical regulatory and compliance
With experienced subject matter experts in chemical sector regulations and compliance, Ricardo can support businesses in placing, monitoring, and transporting chemical products across the globe.
Sustainability in the chemical sector
Decarbonise your business practices, transition to products that are Safe and Sustainable by Design, reduce your environmental toxicological risks and take steps towards a circular and low carbon economy with our expertise and experience we can support your business with all aspects of sustainability.
Environmental chemistry and toxicology
Establish true sustainability throughout your product portfolio and minimise risk with our expertise in environmental chemistry and toxicology. We can support your businesses in placing, monitoring, and evaluating regulatory tests, and provide specialist expertise in developing alternative approaches to standard testing requirements.
Chemical emergency response
Protect people, environment, assets and reputation with our specialist 24/7/365 helplines, software and reliable advice backed by insurance to maintain compliance, while supporting your wider sustainability and chemical safety strategies.
