What is the primary purpose of Haz Waste Management?
Protects human health and environment from hazardous waste
This includes conserving energy and natural resources through recycling and recovery.
What are the key objectives of Haz Waste Management?
- Reducing the amount of solid and hazardous waste generated
- Cost-efficient
- Required by EPA, CalEPA, US DOT, and OSHA
What does the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) provide the EPA?
Authority to require reporting, record-keeping, testing, and restrictions relating to chemical substances.
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) known for?
Gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from ‘cradle-to-grave’.
What does the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) establish?
Provides federal superfund to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites.
What is the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) designed to protect against?
Risks to life, property, and the environment inherent in the transportation of hazardous material.
What is the purpose of OSHA Haz Communication?
To ensure that employers and employees are aware of work hazards and protections to reduce incidents.
What does OSHA HAZWOPER stand for?
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response.
Define ‘process’ in the context of Study Process Thinking.
A series of interrelated tasks or steps taken in order to achieve a particular outcome.
What does PDCA stand for?
Plan Do Check Act.
What is the first step in the PDCA cycle?
Plan: establish outcomes and tasks to achieve outcomes.
Fill in the blank: The term __________ refers to what is learned based on a foundation of previously learned knowledge.
Cumulative Knowledge
Differentiate between ‘law’ and ‘regulation’.
- Law: rules set by Congress
- Regulation: written instrument containing rules of law and process for monitoring and enforcing legislation.
What does ‘cradle-to-grave’ refer to?
Hazardous waste and materials tracking from their points of origin to proper disposal.
What are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)?
A broad family of man-made organic chemicals known as chlorinated hydrocarbons.
What is the manufacture of PCBs?
To create, produce, or import into the customs territory of the US.
What does PMN stand for?
Premanufacture Notification.
What is a capacitor?
An electrical device that accumulates and stores an electric discharge on conducting surfaces separated by dielectric fluid.
What is the definition of high concentration PCBs?
Fluids with greater than 500 ppm PCB.
What is the purpose of the Pre-Manufacture Notification?
Requires manufacturers to notify EPA at least 90 days prior to producing a new chemical product.
What does the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) set standards for?
Responding to the presence of asbestos in schools.
True or False: The Indoor Radon Abatement Act requires indoor radon levels to exceed outside ambient levels.
False.
What is the goal of the Lead Exposure Reduction program?
To eliminate lead-based paint hazards from housing as soon as possible.
What are the four hazard categories established by the EPA?
- Ignitability
- Corrosivity
- Reactivity
- Toxicity.
