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The 2012 Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act (e-Manifest Act) directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a hazardous waste e-manifesting system. The EPA recently proposed a system of user fees for e-manifests. Today we will take a look at how these fees are intended to work and who will actually end up […]
Q. We generate F006 filter cake that we ship to a recycling facility that recycles 100% of the waste. As a small quantity generator, must we include this hazardous waste toward our 1,000 kg allowed per month or is this exempt because it’s recycled?
We are all aware of the problem of noise in the workplace and how hearing can be irreparably damaged. But did you know that hearing can be damaged by certain chemicals in the workplace? Yesterday we looked at findings concerning solvents in the workplace and hearing loss. Today we will review findings that suggest that […]
We are all aware of the problem of noise in the workplace and how hearing can be irreparably damaged. But did you know that hearing can be damaged by certain chemicals in the workplace? Today and tomorrow we will explore findings concerning common workplace chemicals that are said to have the potential to damage hearing.
The EPA has moved one step closer to implementing an electronic manifest (e-Manifest) system intended to replace the existing paper manifest system used for cradle-to-grave tracking of hazardous waste. Specifically, the Agency is proposing a methodology for imposing fees on users of the e-Manifest system. The fee would cover the use of either e-manifests or […]
Q. Are there compliance issues that would prevent our installation of a compressor on a concrete slab on which our (now clean-closed) RCRA-permitted hazardous waste boiler sat? Our Closure Plan states that we will close the slab when the facility closes.
Spray booths have a lot of benefits, but they are not magic boxes: There are compliance issues in and around them that employers need to be aware of. Hornell, New York-based Alstom Transportation learned during a recent Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspection that a spray booth is not a fix-it-and-forget-it solution.
A spray booth is a vital part of any operation that involves routine spray painting of parts or products. Spray booths improve the quality and consistency of spray-finishing operations, and they improve worker and facility safety as well as environmental compliance.
Following the death of 53-year-old Steven Reyna in a carbon dioxide (CO2) release at Atlantic Coffee Industrial Solutions in Houston, Texas, OSHA issued nine serious citations against the facility. How exactly did the employer fail to protect its worker from the hazards of a nontoxic, noncorrosive, nonflammable chemical?
At Atlantic Coffee Industrial Solutions in Houston, Texas, workers used an environmentally-friendly supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) process to extract caffeine from coffee beans. Unfortunately, “environmentally friendly” is not the same as “safe”— as the company found out on November 12, 2015, when a CO2 leak led to the asphyxiation death of 53-year-old Steven Reyna, a […]