Hazardous Waste Facility Operations and Maintenance
Course Description:
Working in a hazardous waste facility exposes you to numerous safety and health hazards. To prevent accidents and injuries, you must perform your job correctly and carefully. You must also understand the relationship between your job function and other functions within the facility.
While this course focuses on the responsibilities of hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, or (TSDFs), and large quantity generators, or LQGs, of hazardous waste, all employees involved in hazardous waste management should be familiar with routine facility operations, waste acceptance policies and procedures, equipment maintenance requirements, and emergency preparedness, prevention, and response.
This training session discusses all these important topics to familiarize you with a facility’s hazardous waste management program and its emergency procedures so you can stay safe on the job.
Why “Hazardous Waste Facility Operations and Maintenance” Matters:
At the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
- Recognize the facility’s hazardous waste management operations and procedures as they relate to their job
- Appreciate the importance of equipment maintenance requirements
- Identify and properly use the personal protective equipment, or PPE, required for their job
- Acknowledge their role in the facility’s emergency and contingency plans
- Respond safely and effectively in an emergency situation