Hazardous Waste Generator Training

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Hazardous Waste Generator Training
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Environmental Health
and Safety
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Why Are We Here?
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Tools For Compliance See the Rules of Thumb

• Hazardous Chemical Waste Guidebook
• Hazardous Waste Labels Forms
• Segregation/Containment Trays
• Emergency Information Posting
• Training Video and Documents

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Responsibility

• You are responsible for proper management of
  hazardous waste in your laboratory or service
  area
• Fines are responsibility of Departments receiving
  them

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Implications of Noncompliance for Academic
Institutions

• Fines in mid-1990s
• Stanford, Yale, Boston University
  (350,000-1,2000,000)
• Mankato State (65,000)
• New EPA Compliance Initiatives
• New England (Brown Univ. 0.5 M)
• West Coast (Univ of Hawaii 1.7 M)
• Very negative publicity

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Past Deficiencies

• Hazardous waste in sewer
• Hazardous waste in trash
• Improper labeling
• Improper storage of hazardous waste
• Containers not closed
• Lack of secondary containment
• (Lack of weekly inspections)
• No documented training new employee/student
  annual update

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Do NOT Store Waste in Public Hallways!

• Not the bottles
• Not the boxes
• Why?
• Not safe for all involved
• Fire Code bans this
• No security
• Custodians may be confused and trash

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Implications Cradle to Grave

• Researcher--the Cradle
• Waste Storage
• Waste Evaluation I
• EHS
• Maintain files, reports, licenses for 55
  locations
• Waste Evaluation II
• Transport waste to central storage
• Repackage and store at permitted facility
• Contract for, transport, track, and document
  final disposal

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Your Responsibility

• Proper disposal of wastes
• Dont evaporate, sewer or trash HW
• Use the U of M Chemical Waste Program
• Waste Evaluation
• Based on Generator Knowledge
• Detailed reporting of wastes
• Good labeling to avoid unknowns

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Your Responsibility

• Waste Storage
• Labeling, proper containers, closed containers
• Emergency planning Containment, Phone lists
• Documented initial and annual refresher training
• Resources
• Guidebook
• http//www.dehs.umn.edu/guidebook/index.html
• Training video with training document
• EHS Monthly Training (3rd Thurs/Register 6-6002)
• HW Hotline 6-1604 hazwaste_at_tc.umn.edu

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Thompson Center for Environmental Managment
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Use Pollution Prevention

• Product Substitution--Biodegradable Scintillation
  fluids
• Process modification--Microscale Chemistry Labs
• Free Chemicals
• University Wide Initiatives
• 1998 Debunk the UCOs
• 1999 Mercury Reduction Initiative
• 2000 Electronics Collection

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Chemical Redistribution
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Mercury Reduction Initiative

• Thermometer Exchange
• Improved Amalgam Traps
• Manometers Dismantled
• New Steam Plant Cleaner Fuels

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Recycle Electronics at the U
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Electronics Waste

• University Computer Services [phone]
• will pick up your computer products free of
  charge
• good quality units resold http//www1.umn.edu/ucs
• others go for recycling
• University Recycling Program [phone]
• will also arrange to collect all electronic waste
  including scientific equipment free of charge
• Coming Soon Reuse Program/Virtual Warehouse at
  http//www1.umn.edu/recycle/reuse.html
• those not suitable for use are sent to the Us
  electronics recycling contractor

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Fire in Fumehood
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More typical spill
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Emergency Planning for Laboratories and Shops

• Practice Safe Science
• Designate an Emergency Coordinator
• Post emergency information by phones
• Know what to do in an emergency

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Chemical Spill Procedures

• Call 9-1-1 from Campus phone Fire, explosion or
  injury
• Call EHS Beyond Your Capability to Handle
• Evacuate
• Call [phone] during business hours
• Call 9-1-1 after hours

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Response to Spills

• Evacuate
• Confine
• Report
• Secure
• Advise during clean-up

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Questions

• Call the Chemical Waste Program at (612)
  626-1604, or
• e-mail at hazwaste_at_tc.umn.edu
• problems or need advice
• unlabeled chemicals
• shock sensitive chemicals
• sewering chemicals
• packaging requirements
• DDC or CAS numbers

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Hennepin County Inspection 2001
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Open Haz Waste Drum
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Another Open Container
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More Open HW Containers
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Even More Open Untended Containers
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Open Hg Waste Container
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Who needs to stay for Bloodborne and Other
Pathogen Training?

• If you work with human blood
• If you work with other human body fluids spinal
  fluid, synovial fluid, vaginal fluid, sperm
• If you work with infectious agents viruses,
  bacteria, fungi, rickettsia