📚 Guide by Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety — The Hazardous Waste Management is an online workplace safety course delivered by Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety, Calgary’s Energy Safety Canada Authorized Training Provider. Self-paced, mobile-friendly, same-day certificate upon exam completion. Available across Canada.
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HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT COURSE OVERVIEW
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “Hazardous waste is waste that is dangerous or potentially harmful to our health or the environment. Hazardous wastes can be liquids, solids, gases, or sludges. They can be discarded commercial products, like cleaning fluids or pesticides, or the by-products of manufacturing processes.” The EPA began regulating hazardous waste in 1976.
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Identify the purpose of a waste management program
- Define the categories of waste, including hazardous, universal, “potentially” hazardous, and non-hazardous
- Identify the purpose for regulating hazardous waste, which regulatory standards apply to hazardous waste management, and the three classifications of waste generators under RCRA
- Recognize the criteria for determining if “you” generate a hazardous waste
- Identify the container, labelling, and storage requirements for hazardous waste
- Identify the requirements for developing and implementing an inspection program for hazardous waste
- Identify transportation and disposal requirements for hazardous waste
- Identify the requirements for emergency preparedness and contingency planning
- Recognize the requirements for training personnel, reporting, and recordkeeping
- Identify examples of typical hazardous wastes, universal wastes, and potentially hazardous wastes
- Identify proper management and disposal procedures for typical hazardous, universal, and potentially hazardous wastes
- Recognize methods for minimizing the generation of hazardous waste and evaluating those methods
REGULATIONS
This course was designed to help satisfy requirements of the following regulations:
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 40 CRF part 260-265
- 40 CFR 261, Subpart D
- 40 CFR 261, Subpart C
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT COURSE TOPICS
- The purpose of a waste management program
- Hazardous waste categories
- Overview of hazardous waste regulations
- Hazardous waste generators
- Containers, labelling, and storage
- Hazardous waste inspection programs
- Transportation and disposal
- Emergency preparedness and contingency planning
- Training, reporting, and record keeping
- Managing typical wastes
- Methods for minimizing waste
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT COURSE DURATION: Approximately 65 minutes
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT COURSE ASSESSMENT: Testing conducted throughout this online course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to receive a certificate of completion. Users are able to repeat the course twice if the pass mark is not achieved.
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION: Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available for download and printing.
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT COURSE PREVIEW
Additional Safety Knowledge
WHMIS 2015 — Canada’s Hazard Communication Standard
WHMIS 2015 aligned Canadian workplace hazard communication with the Globally Harmonised System (GHS). Under the Hazardous Products Regulations, all suppliers of hazardous products must classify their products, prepare compliant Safety Data Sheets (SDS), and apply standardised supplier labels. Employers must ensure workers who use, handle, or may be exposed to hazardous products receive WHMIS training and workplace-specific instruction.
The Nine WHMIS Pictograms Workers Must Recognise
- Flame: flammables, self-reactives, pyrophorics, self-heating substances, organic peroxides
- Flame over circle: oxidisers
- Gas cylinder: gases under pressure
- Exploding bomb: explosives, self-reactives (type A/B), organic peroxides (type A/B)
- Corrosion: corrosive to metals, skin corrosion, serious eye damage
- Skull and crossbones: acute toxicity (categories 1–3)
- Health hazard: respiratory sensitisation, germ cell mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, reproductive toxicity, target organ toxicity, aspiration hazard
- Exclamation mark: acute toxicity (category 4), skin/eye irritation, respiratory tract irritation, hazardous to ozone layer
- Environment (optional in Canada): aquatic toxicity
The 16 SDS Sections
Every Canadian Safety Data Sheet follows a standardised 16-section format: (1) identification, (2) hazard identification, (3) composition, (4) first-aid measures, (5) fire-fighting measures, (6) accidental release measures, (7) handling and storage, (8) exposure controls / PPE, (9) physical and chemical properties, (10) stability and reactivity, (11) toxicological information, (12) ecological information, (13) disposal, (14) transport information, (15) regulatory information, (16) other information.
Hazardous Waste Management — Employer Obligations
Employers must ensure SDSs for all hazardous products are current (updated within 90 days of new hazard information) and accessible to workers. Workplace labels are required when a product is decanted or when supplier labels become illegible. Worker training must be delivered before first exposure and reviewed annually or when workplace conditions change.
Content reviewed by Arliss Levine, CRSP, CHSC — lead safety instructor at Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety Calgary, an Energy Safety Canada Authorized Training Provider.
