Course: BLD 167 Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response

Assignment: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHAct

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHAct

Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) require job safety training.

Simplified the objectives are clear to meet the training requirements you must demonstrate:

- Awareness of potential hazards
- The course should provide you with the knowledge and skills to perform your work with minimum risk.
- Make you aware of the purpose and limitations of safety equipment.
- Ensure you can safely avoid or escape from emergencies.

Ideally you want to minimize exposure. There is ample reason why transition to safer alternatives.  However clean-up of old abandoned hazardous waste sites and in emergencies continues to be a threat to workers by the hazards they pose.  With HAZWOPER training we want to show you initially a number of such clean-up operations and emergencies.

In the big HAZWOPER picture as you go through this course remember that every Section builds skills for another to ultimately get you certified.  We want you to understand as you go through training that hazardous waste site are all different and the pose many risks.  Therefore we want you to minimize risks whenever you can the following model from OSHA's website illustrates this point well.

It is widely recognized that the most effective method to eliminate or reduce adverse health and safety outcomes in the workplace is to eliminate hazards at the source, before applying other, less effective forms of protection. This industrial hygiene principle, known as the hierarchy of controls, has been well-studied, widely accepted and prominently incorporated into practice by businesses and industrial hygiene professionals throughout the world.

In chemical management, this hierarchy guides employers and workers to eliminate or reduce hazardous chemicals at the source by substituting them with safer alternatives. Unlike traditional engineering controls, administrative controls, work practice controls, or personal protective equipment, these strategies can completely eliminate exposure to hazardous chemicals, reduce the potential for chemical accidents, reduce disposal costs, and remove concerns regarding worker compliance and equipment maintenance.

Eliminating or reducing chemical hazards at the source, when coupled with a thoughtful, systematic evaluation of alternatives and the adoption of safer chemicals, materials, products and processes, can provide substantial benefits to both workers and businesses. If all that makes sense to you then we want you to keep a list of engineering controls as you go through this course.  Things like staying upwind, uphill, ventilation general and local wetting methods all to reduce your potential exposure to hazardous substances.

Write a review about HAZWOPER and OSHA including other agencies' regulations about handling hazardous waste.

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