Hazardous Waste Management
Learning objectives
- Define hazardous waste, explain the importance of managing it properly, and list the categories of hazardous waste generators.
- List some actions industrial facilities use to manage hazardous waste, and explain how you can assist your company with its hazardous waste management efforts.
- Describe how to handle common types of hazardous waste.
- Describe how you, and other individuals with various roles and responsibilities, should respond to an unintended release of hazardous waste.
Course overview
Define a hazardous waste, recognize standards that regulate hazardous waste, and identify requirements of hazardous waste management.
The individuals involved in the development and promotion of this course do not receive any compensation or financial benefits outside of their regular employment for their work on this course.
- 20 minutes
- Format: Online Interactive
- Tier: 2
- Course ID: 49
English, French Canadian, Korean, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), German, Hindi, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish (Spain)
Course Outline
- Introduction to Hazardous Waste
- Handling Hazardous Waste
- Special Instructions for Common Wastes
- Emergency Response
Regulations
- 40 CFR 261 Subpart C
- 40 CFR 261 Subpart D
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 40 CRF part 260-265