Title: Improve Your Safety Using Hazwoper Training Courses
1Improve Your Safety Using HAZWOPER Training
Courses
2About PDH STAR is a premier online training
provider for the construction industry. We
provide online and in-person OSHA and NYC Site
Safety Training (SST) for site-based staff, as
well as PDH Continuing Education online courses
and webinars for Professional Engineers,
recognized in all states.
3- HAZWOPER
- OSHA issued the Hazardous Waste Operations and
Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) standards, 29 CFR
1910.120 and 29 CFR 1926.65, to protect workers
and enable them to handle hazardous substances
safely and effectively. The HAZWOPER standard for
the construction industry (29 CFR 1926.65) is
identical to general industry one (29 CFR
1910.120). - The HAZWOPER standard provides employers,
emergency response workers, and other workers
potentially exposed to hazardous substances
information and training criteria to improve
workplace safety and health, and reduce workplace
injuries and illnesses that could occur from
exposures to hazardous substances.
4- following general categories of work operations
- Hazardous waste site cleanup operations
- Operations involving hazardous waste that are
conducted at treatment, storage, and disposal
(TSD) facilities, and - Emergency response operations involving hazardous
substance releases.
5- Who Need HAZWOPER training
- A Hazwoper online training program is required
under the safety and health program and is also
part of the site Health Safety Program (HASP).
This training must be provided to all employees
who will work on the site such as equipment
operators, general laborers, and supervisors or
managers who may have exposure to hazardous
substances. - Before performing any work on a hazardous waste
site, the employer must provide its employees
with initial training based on the tasks and
operations that employees will perform and the
exposures they are anticipated to experience.
6- What a training should I take?
- Below is the training requirements for workers,
as per the OSHA 1910.120(e)(3) rule - General site employees (e.g., equipment
operators, general laborers, etc.) - 40 hour Initial training (HAZWOPER 40)
- 8 hours annual refresher (HAZWOPER 8 HOUR
REFRESHER) - Employees occasionally on site for a limited
task (e.g., groundwater monitoring, land
surveying, etc.) with minimal exposure - 24 hours initial training (HAZWOPER 24)
- 8 hours annual refresher (HAZWOPER 8 HOUR
REFRESHER) - Employees regularly on site who are not exposed
to health hazards - 24 hours initial training (HAZWOPER 24)
- 8 hours annual refresher (HAZWOPER 8 HOUR
REFRESHER)
7UP TO DATE COURSES All of our courses are
regularly updated to bring you the current and
most relevant information on the topic
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