Combustible dust is made up of fine particles that present a fire or explosion hazard when suspended in air under certain conditions. A dust explosion can cause serious injuries, fatalities, and destruction of buildings. Combustible dust hazards exist in a variety of industries including agriculture, chemical, food, grain, wood and lumber, paper, pulp and rubber, furniture and textiles, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and metals processing, and recycling operations.
This course is for employees who work in these industries and other work environments prone to dust and will help to identify combustible dust hazards and ways to prevent injury and illness from fires, flash fires, deflagration, and explosions.
Today, we’re going to talk about the health effects of hazardous waste. Hazardous wastes are composed of substances that can be harmful to your health. Exposure to some hazardous wastes can cause serious illness, injury, or even death. However, these materials can be handled and disposed of safely if proper procedures are carefully followed. This training session will introduce you to the hazards of hazardous wastes and the steps to take to prevent harmful exposures. With adequate information about hazardous waste, you can minimize risks and protect your health on the job.
This course provides information for employees performing tasks that may expose them to hazards like dipping, coating, and cleaning operations. The general term “dipping and coating” covers a wide variety of operations, including paint dipping, degreasing, and electroplating. When you work in dipping or coating operations, you need to understand the hazards and corresponding precautions to minimize risk factors and reduce accidents, injuries, or illnesses at work.
A construction site is an inherently dangerous workplace. You must pay attention not only to what you are doing but also to what other workers around you are doing. The main goal of this session is to help you understand how important it is to work safely near heavy equipment. At the end of the session, you will be able to understand the leading causes of heavy equipment-related accidents, identify dangers associated with heavy equipment, discuss what OSHA regulations say about working safely on or near heavy equipment, and learn basic precautions to stay safe on the worksite.
This course provides information for employees performing tasks that may expose them to hazards like dipping, coating, and cleaning operations. The general term “dipping and coating” covers a wide variety of operations, including paint dipping, degreasing, and electroplating. When you work in dipping or coating operations, you need to understand the hazards and corresponding precautions to minimize risk factors and reduce accidents, injuries, or illnesses at work.
Este curso proporciona información para empleados que realizan tareas que pueden exponerlos a peligros como operaciones de inmersión, revestimiento y limpieza. El término general “inmersión y revestimiento” abarca una amplia variedad de operaciones, incluidas la inmersión en pintura, el desengrase y la galvanoplastia. Cuando usted trabaja en operaciones de inmersión o revestimiento, necesita comprender los peligros y las precauciones correspondientes para minimizar los factores de riesgo y reducir accidentes, lesiones o enfermedades en el trabajo.
A construction site is an inherently dangerous workplace. You must pay attention not only to what you are doing but also to what other workers around you are doing. The main goal of this session is to help you understand how important it is to work safely near heavy equipment. At the end of the session, you will be able to understand the leading causes of heavy equipment-related accidents, identify dangers associated with heavy equipment, discuss what OSHA regulations say about working safely on or near heavy equipment, and learn basic precautions to stay safe on the worksite.
Un sitio de construcción es un lugar de trabajo inherentemente peligroso. Debe prestar atención no solo a lo que usted hace, sino también a lo que hacen los demás trabajadores a su alrededor. El objetivo principal de esta sesión es ayudarle a entender lo importante que es trabajar de manera segura cerca de equipos pesados. Al final de la sesión, será capaz de comprender las principales causas de accidentes relacionados con equipos pesados, identificar los peligros asociados, discutir lo que indican las regulaciones de OSHA sobre el trabajo seguro en o cerca de equipos pesados y aprender precauciones básicas para mantenerse seguro en el lugar de trabajo.
Even facilities with good relationships with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and good compliance histories may get inspected. Although you may not be able to avoid the “knock on the door,” you can avoid being caught in an enforcement trap if you know what to expect and make sure you’re prepared to deal effectively with an EPA inspection. It’s critical for you to do everything possible to prepare for and be responsive during all the stages of the inspection process. Your actions may largely determine the impact of the inspection on your business and whether the EPA will pursue an enforcement action. The main objective of this session is to prepare you for EPA inspections at your facility.
Many of the chemicals you work with may be dangerous and even deadly. That’s why all spills, no matter how small, must be taken seriously and handled without hesitation. You need to know how to react. By acting quickly and effectively, you can protect yourself and others and help prevent a spill from getting out of control.
To handle spills of hazardous materials, or hazmat, your worksite has developed procedures to address and control this emergency situation. Today, we’ll review the necessary cleanup procedures for hazardous spills, and we’ll also take a look at the air monitoring process that plays an important part in the cleanup operation.
Containers are the most common unit used to store and transport hazardous waste. They are often preferred over tanks and surface impoundments largely due to the ease with which they can be handled and their relative inexpensiveness. Containers are a good option for hazardous waste handlers who want to store, transport, and dispose of hazardous waste without changing the unit.
Before regulation under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, or RCRA, containers were frequently mismanaged or abandoned. Some of the worst environmental disasters associated with hazardous wastes were caused by the failure of containers. When the abandoned containers became weathered or corroded, the hazardous contents were released, posing a far-reaching danger to human health and the environment. Additionally, many containers were not properly labeled or not labeled at all. As such, they posed hazards due to their “unknown” contents.
Consequently, properly managing containers of hazardous waste is a critical part of the RCRA regulatory system for handling hazardous wastes safely, while protecting the environment and the health and well-being of workers and of the public. Each handler of containers of hazardous waste plays an important role in this process.
Emergency situations involving damage to property or injury to co-workers can and do occur at facilities that handle hazardous wastes. This training session will focus on emergency response procedures required under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, regulations for personnel at hazardous waste large quantity generators, or LQGs, and hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, or TSDFs. In addition, this session will address the actions you can take to help prevent or mitigate an emergency’s often devastating effects and describe the various emergencies that could potentially occur at your workplace and how to respond to them. The EPA regulations address the hazardous waste facility preparedness and prevention requirements for emergencies at 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for LQGs at 40 CFR 262.250 to 262.256, for TSDFs at 40 CFR 264.30 to 264.37, and for hazardous waste small quantity generators, SQGs, at 40 CFR 262.16(b)(8) and 40 CFR 262.16(b)(9).
The session also applies to SQGs, although these generators are not required to have formal written training programs for their employees or a written contingency plan.
Note that this session does not address the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s, or OSHA’s, hazardous waste operations and emergency response, or HAZWOPER, or hazard communication requirements.
