HAZWOPER: Handling & Shipping Drums & Containers

HAZWOPER: Handling & Shipping Drums & Containers

Course Length: 75 minutes

Overview: HAZWOPER: Handling & Shipping Drums & Containers is designed to focus on the precautions and procedures to use when handling, opening, staging, and shipping drums and other containers of hazardous substances. The course goes over the importance of inspection, planning, sampling, and characterizing drums and containers before movement. Special precautions and spill containment are also addressed.

After completing this course, learners will be able to:

• Identify types of containers and the hazards associated with handling drums and containers
• Describe what to look for while inspecting drums and containers and the importance of developing a plan prior to handling drums and containers
• Describe the purpose of handling drums, equipment used, safety procedures, and special precautions to use when opening drums
• Discuss the importance of drum sampling and characterization
• Explain staging areas, what activities happen in specific staging areas, and how to perform bulking activities to prepare hazardous wastes for shipment
• Discuss the precautions that can be taken when loading vehicles for transport and regulations that pertain to the shipment of hazardous wastes
• Explain what a Spill Containment Program is and spill control measures

Outline:

HAZWOPER: Handling & Shipping Drums & Containers covers the following topics:

Drums & Other Containers

• Container Types
• Drum Handling
• Hazard Awareness

Inspection & Planning

• Inspection
• Planning

Handling & Opening Drums

• Purpose of Handling Drums
• Equipment for Handling Drums
• Safe Practices
• Environmental Practices
• Special Precautions with Certain Drums
• Opening Drums

Drum Sampling & Characterization

• Drum Sampling
• Drum Characterization

Drum Staging & Bulking

• Staging Drums
• Bulking

Shipping Drums & Containers

• Shipment of Materials
• Regulations

Special Precautions

• Precautions for Specific Containers
• Ponds & Lagoons

Spill Containment

• Spill Containment Program
• Spill Control Measures

Intended Audience: Any worker who may be involved or expected to engage in hazardous waste cleanup operations where the worker may be exposed to hazardous substances, health hazards, or safety hazards. These cleanup workers include:

1. General site workers, such as equipment operators, general laborers, and supervisory personnel;
2. Workers on the site only occasionally for a specific limited task (such as, but not limited to, groundwater monitoring, land surveying, or geo-physical surveying) and who are unlikely to be exposed over permissible exposure limits; and
3. Workers regularly on the site who work in areas which have been monitored and fully characterized indicating that exposures are under permissible exposure limits where respirators are not necessary, and the site characterization indicates that there are no health hazards or the possibility of an emergency developing.

Regs Covered:

• 29 CFR 1910.120
• 29 CFR 1926.65
• 40 CFR 261
• 40 CFR 262
• 49 CFR 171
• 49 CFR 172
• 49 CFR 177
• 49 CFR 178
• 40 CFR 260.10
• 40 CFR 262
• 40 CFR 263

Copyright Date: 2018

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