Hazardous Waste Management and Pollution Prevention

• What is contamination and how does it affect us?
• A detailed look at all the various types of contamination
• Global Environmental issues related to contamination
• International Environmental Treaties and Guidelines related to Contamination
• The toxic 12 Chemicals and the role of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
• The current watch list for chemicals that soon may be added to the toxic 12
• Environmental Law and its significance
• Definition of hazardous Wastes & Non -Hazardous Wastes
• Connecting the dots between Contamination and Hazardous Wastes

• A brief review of Day 1 topics
• The relationship between Contamination and Occupational Health & Safety
• The importance of documentation in Hazardous Waste Management
• Some typical Hazardous Waste Regulations and the need for harmonization
• The purpose of a Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)
• The purpose of a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
• Why a Globally Harmonized System (GHS) is essential for WHMIS and MSDS
• Carrying out a Contamination Audit
• Managing a Waste Disposal Site
• Class Exercise

Discussions on common contamination sources from the contamination audit, sources of pollution, and techniques and technologies to prevent or minimize them.

• Review of Day 2 topics
• Exploration & Production- Refining & Transportation
• Oil Spills with special reference to the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil slick occurrence
• Modern Tanker design to minimize the occurrence of a major oil spill
• Other oil-related sources of pollution
• The common thread amongst many third world countries concerning pollution issues
• The current concepts of Zero Waste (ZW) and Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) and their limitations
• The Bird Problem- Pollution from bird droppings and dead birds and the latest available technologies to control this problem
• Class Exercise

• Review of Day 3 topics
• Life Cycle Management of all materials being used in a company
• The 5R’s- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover and Rethink
• Detailed requirements for proper storage of hazardous materials
• The importance of on-going training
• The importance of regular reviews of emergency plans
• Updated information on ISO 14001, 45001 and 9001
• Types of Environmental Audits
• Discussion of some major preventable accidents

• Review of Day 4 topics
• HAZID (Hazard Identification)
• HAZWOPER (Hazardous Waste Operations)
• Environmental Ethics
• Examples of Environmental Ethics from the Instructor’s personal experiences
• Climate Change update and its significance for the Gulf Coast Countries
• A complete training course review with some generic recommendations including Greening your Company at a reasonable cost