Oshacampus.com’s HAZWOPER Modules Deliver Hazardous-Substances Risk Reduction (29 CFR 1910)
Posted:
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Category:
OSHA and Safety
The best of times, the worst of times, handling hazardous substances has always been dangerous. Now with climate change and more environmental unpredictability thrown in the mix, the already-risky job has become even more perilous.
Hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, and other natural disasters are major threats to repositories of nuclear and chemical materials. The tsunami that devastated Fukushima, Japan in March 2011, for instance, compromised facilities that were thought to be stable and safe, but now are causing varying degrees of food, water, and air contamination.
These new, pressing realities make it clear that understanding and implementing checks and procedures regarding hazardous substances are not only urgent but also mandatory.
Convenient CFR Compliance
360training.com, a leader in the e-learning industry, with more than 2,500 e-Learning partners who together have trained over 3 million users worldwide, makes CFR compliance easier and convenient with its online HAZWOPER (Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response) training modules.
Through www.oshacampus.com–the premier online safety-training portal for OSHA-accepted Construction and General Industry Outreach Training—general-site workers, supervisors, and managers can take the appropriate and required number of training hours.
40-hour HAZWOPER
This training program is for the following:
General-site workers. Workers such as equipment operators, general laborers, and supervisory personnel who are engaged in hazardous-substance removal or other activities that expose or potentially expose them to hazardous substances and health hazards (40 hours off-site, as per 1910.120(e)(3)(i))
On-site managers. Those directly responsible for, or who supervise employees engaged in, hazardous-waste operations (40 hours initial training, as per 1910.120(e)(4))
The trainee’s employer or prospective employer is responsible for providing trainees with additional hands-on training in the donning, doffing, and use of the personal protective equipment required for their jobsites and at least three days of actual field experience under a trained, seasoned supervisor.
24-hour HAZWOPER
This training program is for the following:
New employees. Those exposed to health hazards or hazardous substances at treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) operations (initial training to be 24 hours, as per 10.120(p)(7)(i))
On-site workers with limited exposure. Those working at sites where there are no health hazards or no possibility of an emergency developing (minimum of 24 hours of off-site instruction, as per 1910.120(e)(3)(iii))
Occasional on-site workers with minimal exposure. Those working at sites where there are no health hazards or no possibility of an emergency developing (minimum of 24 hours of off-site instruction, as per 1910.120(e)(3)(ii))
The trainee’s employer or prospective employer is responsible for providing workers one day of supervised field experience (on top of the 23-hour HAWOPER training) before they are allowed to enter the site.
8-hour HAZWOPER
Refresher training for workers responsible for:
- clean-up operations
- voluntary clean-up operations
- emergency-response operations
- storage, disposal, and treatment of hazardous substances or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites
(8 hours of instruction, as per 1910.120(e)(8), 1910.120(p)(7)(ii), 1910.120(q)(6)(ii), and 1910.120(q)(8)(i))
