Knowledge, skills and acquired competences

Planned dates of beginning and ending the placement period : 18.03 – 31.03.2012

The practice stage was part of the module “Managing reagents and wastes” in XII – th grade, level 3, for the qualification “Chemistry laboratory technician”.

- Knowledge about danger categories of chemical reagents;health and security working norms to prepare reagents for analyses;storing the reagents in proper places;dosing the necessary amounts of reagents to perform physical and chemical analyses;methods of minimising the losses in the technological process;exploiting and maintaining the installations in conditions of full safety to reduce losses; classifying the wastes resulted in the lab activity from the point of view of: toxicity, aggregation state,chemical nature;containers collecting the wastes resulted in the lab; storing and destroying the reagents residua and the wastes resulted in the lab activity; 

- Abilities:

• Identifying the reagents used in physical and chemical analyses labs;
• Watching the chemical reagents storing methods
• Identifying the wastes resulted in the lab activity;
• Watching the collecting and storing methods of the wastes resulted in the lab;
• Optimizing the chemical reagents use;

-Competences

The training agreement was structured on the Competence Unit “Managing reagents and wastes” ,weekly practice( Annex 2 at OMEdC no. 3172/30.01.2006), Natural resources and Environmental Protection profile, Chemistry Lab Technician qualification, XII – th grade. The module structure contains the specialized technical competence unit “Managing reagents and wastes” which is formed of the following individual competences:

• Monitoring the reagents regime in the lab sector
• Monitoring the wastes regime in the lab sector.