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Waste Management Online Safety Training
This Waste Management online safety training course is convenient and easy to use. Individual employees can train at a time that is convenient for them, at their own pace. The system automatically tracks their progress in the course along with any completed quiz scores and bookmarks the learner’s place to make it easy to resume training if training is interrupted. Upon completion of the course, and a 100% score, the employee will then be able to print a certificate of completion.
Employers no longer need to pull large groups of employees off the job to complete their safety training.
- Meet compliance-based safety requirements
- Reduce risks of accidents and injury on and off the job
- Lower insurance premiums, workers compensation claims and lost work hours
- Improve employee morale and retention
This course provides an overview on managing hazardous waste according to federal regulations including background on RCRA and the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990, recognizing when materials constitute a regulated hazardous waste, and information on generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal requirements.
- Recognize a hazardous waste
- Define ignitable, corrosive, reactive and toxic wastes
- Be familiar with the types of wastes that appear on the K, F, U, P, and D lists
- Summarize the purpose of and procedure for standard waste determination tests: the TCLP, Flash Point testing, determination of pH
- Define three generator stat uses: LQG, SQG, CESQG and know that the three categories have differing responsibilities under the regulations
- Summarize the steps for properly managing hazardous waste from "cradle-to-grave," including generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal
- State the main idea of the pollution prevention philosophy
- Describe the purpose of the PBT list of high-priority wastes
- State the main elements of several other regulations that are related to RCRA
- Know your role in reducing risk from waste
- Describe recent developments in waste management: fluorescent lamps, CRT’s
- Know where to obtain assistance with waste disposal questions
This course is for all employees who are involved in the generation and management of hazardous waste.
- RCRA (1976, amended 1984)
- Pollution Prevention Act of 1990
- The Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 CFR 85 IV-A (1970)
- The Clean Water Act (CWA), 33 CFR 26 (1977)
- The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), 42 CFR 6A XII Part A Sec. 300f. (1974)
- The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), 15 CFR 53 (1976)
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) 42 CFR 103 (1980)
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), 7 CFR 6 (1972)
- The Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) 42 CFR 116
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