Key Learning Objectives
- Safely and properly perform limited tasks at an uncontrolled hazardous waste site in compliance with OSHA's HAZWOPER Standard
- Evaluate, identify, and communicate the hazards present on site
- Select, use, and care for personal protective equipment (PPE), including respirators, needed for the job
Training Topics
- Scope of the HAZWOPER standard and who is covered
- Site organizational structure
- The importance of emergency preparedness
- Site work plans, safety and health plans, and site characterization and analysis
- Risk evaluation and communication prior to initial site entry
- Hazard identification, OSHA HazCom, and health effects
- When and where to find information about hazardous chemicals on site
- Methods for employee and site monitoring
- Requirements for medical surveillance programs
- PPE selection—respirators and chemical protective clothing
- Requirements for confined space entry and drum handling
- Principles of decontamination of equipment and PPE
- Lighting and sanitation requirements for temporary workplaces
- New technology programs
- HAZWOPER training requirements