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Benefits of 40 Hour HAZWOPER Course

Benefits of 40 Hour HAZWOPER Course
There are many significant benefits that a 40 hour HAZWOPER course can provide you. This course is specially designed for the workers who involve in managing hazardous substances or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Actually, 40 hour HAZWOPER training is a safety and health occupational course required for those mentioned workers. This course can help those workers also who regularly or potentially expose to hazardous substances or waste or engage in any one of the operations as specified by 1926.65(a)(1)(i-v) and 1910.120(a)(1)(i-v). The operations are: Clean-up operations conducted at uncontrolled hazardous waste places, Corrective actions that involve clean-up operations at sites as covered in Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA) as altered (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), Voluntary clean-up operations at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites, Operations consisting of hazardous wastes that are conducted at storage, treatment and disposal facilities as regulated by Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Parts 264 and 265 according to RCRA and lastly Emergency response operations for releases of or extensive threats of release of, hazardous waste in any sites.

Topics covered by 40 hour HAZWOPER course are: Overview of the regulations, Analyze safety and hazards, Respiratory protection program, Air Monitoring, Awareness of chemical hazards, Radioactive hazards, Risk and hazard assessment, Toxicology, Site safety and control, Decontamination, Confined Air Entry, Material Sampling, Emergency response plan, Medical surveillance, Lifesaving and personal protection equipment selection, use and care, Site control methods, Confinement, management and clean up. Every topic of this course sure can enhance the safety skill of the workers and the knowledge about the work they are engaged. After knowing the safety skills, a worker can work confidently and on time he can save himself, others and the company itself also.

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