To protect your health and safety, depending on the national or local COVID pandemic situation, some off-site training locations have been converted to a scheduled live online class. You will get all the same great information that you would in a face-to-face meeting. Currently, upcoming classes affected are Indianapolis, Richmond, and Nashville.

Annual hazardous waste training is required for anyone who generates, accumulates, stores, transports, or treats hazardous waste. Learn how to manage your hazardous waste in accordance with the latest state and federal regulations.

Learn how to:

• Determine which of your wastes are classified as hazardous waste

• Manage hazardous waste in accordance with EPA and state regulations
• Operate accumulation points and satellite accumulation points
• Comply with EPA’s new rules for contaminated shop towels and hazardous secondary materials
• Ensure hazardous waste containers meet EPA and DOT requirements
• Properly mark and label containers
• Avoid manifest errors and learn the status of the new electronic manifest
• Properly store and manage universal waste, used oil, and other special wastes
• Prepare for and respond to emergencies

You’ll also learn how the new Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule makes over 60 changes in the regulations that can impact your facility, including:

• New definitions for Central Accumulation Areas and Very Small Quantity Generators
• New requirements for how you must document which wastes are hazardous wastes
• New marking and labeling requirements for containers and tanks at central accumulation areas and satellite areas
• Requirements for small quantity generators to re-notify EPA or the authorized state of their generator status and wastes

• Changes that must be made to your site hazardous waste contingency plan

• How to keep small quantity generator status, even if you generate over 1,000 kg in a month

The course manual, Handbook for the Management of Hazardous Waste, will serve as a reference to ensure you are in compliance with the most recent regulations.

Pre-approved for the following Continuing Education Credits:

• CEU—1.6
• CA-REHS—16 hours
• IDEM CE Credit Drinking Water Operators—16 general hours
• IDEM CE Credit Wastewater Operators—16 general hours
• KY DEP EC Credit Wastewater Operators—16 hours
• NEHA—16 hours
• NY DEC—15 contact hours
• NC Drinking Water (Water Treatment Facility) Operators—16 contact hours (Professional Growth Hours)
• NC Wastewater Operators—16 hours
• Ohio EPA Drinking Water Operators—15 hours
• Ohio EPA Waste Water Operators—15 hours