This course provides information about federal oil pollution prevention regulations, and specifically the requirements for Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans and Facility Response Plans (FRPs). This course is intended for personnel who handle oil at their facilities and those who may be involved in oil spill response activities. When oil spills into the environment and reaches bodies of water, it can have harmful impacts on the environment, human health, and economic activity. The main objective of this session is to give you the information you need to help prevent, control, and respond to oil spills.
You have the right and the responsibility to know about the hazards of lead and the proper procedures for protecting yourself and co-workers from exposure or harm. We’ll discuss lead in your work areas, how to identify lead hazards, and how to protect yourself from those hazards.
Under the Clean Water Act (CWA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires regulated oil storage facilities to develop a Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plan (SPCC Plan). This awareness-level training course is for oil-handling personnel employed at facilities subject to the federal SPCC rules. The course covers the federal SPCC Plan requirements and some best practices for preventing and controlling oil spills so that employees can safely carry out their responsibilities related to the federal SPCC rules.
Employers are required to have an on-site trainer provide site-specific information about the facility’s policies for discharge prevention, spill response, facility operations, and the SPCC Plan to supplement this course. The trainer must be qualified to implement the components of the SPCC Plan addressed in the training.
This course doesn’t cover the additional training requirements for personnel employed at facilities with Facility Response Plans (FRPs).
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.
Molds are forms of microscopic fungi that are found on plant and animal matter. Mildew is the discoloration of materials caused by fungi. They can be found both indoors and outdoors all year round. We’re exposed to them daily in the air we breathe, both inside and outside. Outdoors, mold can be found in the shady damp areas or places where leaves or other vegetation are decomposing. Indoors, mold growth can be found where humidity levels are high.
This session provides information about the hazards of mold in the workplace. This training is intended for building managers, custodians, and maintenance staff who may encounter mold in the workplace and who may be required to prevent or remediate it. Any employees required to remediate mold will also need to receive additional training in hazard communication (hazcom) and respiratory protection, if applicable. This course can also be used for general mold awareness training for all employees, including any employees not required to prevent or remove mold, as mold can be present in any workplace. Exposure to mold can have negative health effects, so it’s not a hazard that should be taken lightly.
Stormwater runoff is a major carrier of pollutants that damage rivers, lakes, streams, and coastal waters in the United States. To address this problem, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, developed a program under the Clean Water Act, a federal law that protects U.S. waterways from pollution, to regulate stormwater discharge sources.
This training session will help you identify the sources of pollutants in stormwater runoff and implement procedures at your facility to prevent pollutants from getting into stormwater and the environment.
This training course covers the principal elements of the regulatory requirements for how generators and treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, or TSDFs, must manage hazardous waste in the workplace. The course describes the different types of hazardous waste and how they must be identified, stored, inspected, and documented, as well as the actions workers should take to protect themselves and the workplace from the dangers of hazardous waste.
Personal protective equipment, or PPE, is often the last line of defense from injury when other safety measures fail, such as engineering controls like guards and barriers and safe work practices you learned in training to limit exposure to hazards. There are barriers to wearing PPE, such as matching the right PPE for the hazard, having it fit comfortably, and maintaining it in good working condition.
This course is for workers who are required to wear PPE because they are or may be exposed to physical or health hazards when engineering, administrative, and safe work practice controls can’t feasibly or effectively reduce exposures to safe levels.
The use of paper in offices for printing, copying, and other purposes consumes valuable natural resources, pollutes the environment, and costs organizations money. Fortunately, these environmental and economic costs can be reduced by taking steps to decrease the amount of paper used in the workplace. Although it may not be possible for all companies to become completely paperless, using less paper is a goal that can be achieved with the proper knowledge and actions. This session is intended for all employees.
Any generator that offers hazardous wastes for transportation for off-site treatment, storage, or disposal must prepare a manifest using a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest (EPA Form 8700-22). Although the hazardous waste generator bears the responsibility for creating the manifest, transporters and receiving facilities also play a key role. Training is necessary to ensure compliance with this shipping paper that is the key to documenting the safe and compliant transport of hazardous waste. Those responsible for signing a manifest or for completing any part of this specialized shipping paper should receive training so that they understand and can competently perform their role.
Regulations regarding hazardous waste manifests are found for hazardous waste generators at 40 CFR 262 Subpart B; for transporters at 40 CFR 263 Subpart B; and for receiving facilities, including treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, or TSDFs, at 40 CFR 264/265 Subpart E.
This course will describe how to properly complete a manifest, help you know what additional documents may need to be attached to the manifest, and explain how parts of the manifest are distributed.
