Hazardous Waste Compliance

Clifford Florczak, James Roughton

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN:
  9780750674362
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080533322
• Topic: Technik & Maschinenbau
• Subtopic: Umweltrecht

Hazardous Waste Compliance concentrates on government regulations as they relate to hazardous waste and other hazardous materials. The main focus of this book is on how to comply with these requirements as well as on other best management practices (BMP), which will ensure worker safety and business protection from the risk of the commercial penalties associated with regulations breaches. The authors provide the reader with useful techniques to enhance worker protection and promote efficiency, productivity and cost effectiveness, along with achieving the necessary quality standards for the work being performed. The authors further outline and define methods to help reduce worker injury and illness, the scope and application of HAZWOPER, and ways to implement hazardous material related requirements through enhancements of existing programs. In addition, detailed discussion helps to provide methods to help promote consistency in health and safety program development for handling hazardous materials, encourage a high standard for health and safety, and share lessons learned to help provide approaches that have been implemented on hazardous waste and other sites. - Provides a comprehensive overview of regulatory requirements in the industry - Real-life experiences are presented in the form of case histories - A training aid for both new and experienced site workers

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Hazardous Waste Compliance
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Compliance Issues
• Chapter 3. Planning Activities
• Chapter 4. Conducting a Job Hazard Analysis
• Chapter 5. Developing a Site-Specific Health and Safety Plan
• Chapter 6. Development of a Site-Specific Health and Safety Plan
• Chapter 7. Implementing the Safety Plan
• Chapter 8. Training Requirements
• Chapter 9. Personal Protective Equipment
• Chapter 10. Decontamination Activities
• Chapter 11. Emergency Preparedness and Response
• APPENDIX A: OSHA Site Audits
• APPENDIX B: Choosing a Contractor/Subcontractor
• APPENDIX C: Process Safety Management Guidelines for Compliance
• APPENDIX D: Site Audit Subjects
• APPENDIX E: Commonly Used Acronyms
• Index