40-Hour Hazardous Waste Worker PARTICIPANT MANUAL

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1 40-Hour Hazardous Waste Worker PARTICIPANT MANUAL Version VIII, Revised July 2015

2 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000 Silver Spring, MD Phone: Fax: Hour Hazardous Waste Worker Ver VIII Revised July 2015 Disclaimer: This training program was developed for CPWR by Michael R. Cooper, CIH, CSP, MPH, and George Newman, BA. The participant manual was produced by Darrell VanWagner, Graphics and Desktop Publishing. Copyright 2015, CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training. All rights reserved. Funding is provided by Cooperative Agreements ES06185 and ES09764 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NIH. The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIEHS or NIH. Acknowledgements: CPWR would like to thank the following individuals for their contribution to this work: Dean Beaver; Gene Daniels; Kelly Dykes; Gary Gustafson; Ron Mahs; George Newman; Ted Olsen; Jack Partridge; Spencer Schwegler; Stan Szymanski Preface-4

3 Table of Contents Chapter 1: Legal Rights & Responsibilities 1-1 Chapter 2: Hazard Recognition Health Effects & Property of Chemicals 2-1 Chapter 3: Information Sources 3-1 Chapter 4: Monitoring and Sampling 4-1 Chapter 5: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) 5-1 Chapter 6: Work Practices and Site Control 6-1 Chapter 7: Decontamination 7-1 Chapter 8: Emergency Response 8-1 Activities A-1 Preface-5

4 Working Construction on DOE Sites: Rights & Responsibilities Introduction CPWR The Center for Construction Research and Training conducts research and administers specific types of construction health and safety training for members of our consortium partners, and the North American Build Trades Unions. Our overriding goal in all the training we deliver is to enable and empower these construction workers to recognize potentially unsafe working conditions, and to identify proper ways to eliminate or control those hazards that make conditions unsafe. However, this in no way ever relieves the employers from their primary responsibility of providing workers a safe and healthful workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has written regulations (CFR ) to make sure that workers at hazardous waste sites are properly protected. These regulations require that contractors plan their work carefully, and that they use the right equipment and work methods. A very important part of the OSHA regulation is that workers must be given either forty hours of training with an additional three days of supervised site-specific training for general site workers on a hazardous waste site, or twenty-four hours with one day of site specific training for TSD and specialized task workers. This Hazardous Waste Worker Course, developed by CPWR for the Construction Consortium for Hazardous Waste Worker Training, meets all requirements for the initial twenty-four or forty hour training. More importantly, it has been designed to meet your needs. The course has been prepared for building trades workers, by building trades workers, and is meant to be taught by experienced tradespeople. This course will help you to learn about your legal rights and responsibilities, how to recognize and control hazards, how to obtain information about hazardous materials, and how to use and decontaminate respirators and protective clothing. You will also learn about correct work practices, air and medical monitoring, and emergency response. The CPWR Hazardous Waste Worker Course has been designed to be clear, direct, and to involve you actively in the learning process. Preface-6

5 Working Construction on DOE Sites: Rights & Responsibilities Learning objectives, found at the beginning of each chapter, tell you what you will be expected to be able to do after you finish the training Brief case studies demonstrate the importance of the information and skills taught. The information that you need is stated in clear, non-technical language wherever possible. Technical or unfamiliar concepts are carefully explained. Classroom lectures, demonstrations, and activities help you to be actively involved in the learning process and to become confident in your ability to use what you learn. Hands-on workshops give you the opportunity to practice putting on, wearing, and decontaminating protective equipment. Your instructors are always available to explain any material that is not clear. It is CPWR s goal that every trainee leave the Hazardous Waste Worker Course with the basic skills, knowledge and confidence that he or she needs to work safely at hazardous waste sites, and that they will be better able to protect themselves on all their jobs. With your active participation, we are confident that we will meet that goal. Students wearing Level A protective suits experience how difficult it can be to communicate. Here they are receiving instructions for their work assignment in a simulated hazardous waste site. A CPWR instructor closely monitors not only how well the students accomplish their assigned task, but also observes their safety while wearing this very restrictive equipment. Preface-7

6 Working Construction on DOE Sites: Rights & Responsibilities In addition to class lectures and discussion, students are assigned to solve specific problems in groups, just as they would as part of a work crew. Students perform both a negative and positive seal check on the respirators they will be using while dressed out in both Level A and Level B protective clothing. A properly sealed face mask will help protect workers from exposures to hazardous chemicals when they begin work on an actual hazardous waste site. Students often express amazement at the amount of information they learn in the 40-hour Hazardous Waste Worker class. For many, this class is the first experience they ve had that focuses first on their own health and safety. Preface-8

7 Working Construction on DOE Sites: Rights & Responsibilities WARNING The material was prepared for use by experienced instructors in the training of persons who are or who anticipate being employed at a hazardous waste worksite. Authors of this material have prepared it for the training of this category of workers as of the date specified on the title page. Users are cautioned that the subject is constantly evolving. Therefore, the material may require additions, deletions, or modifications to incorporate the effects of that evolution occurring after the date of this material preparation. DISCLAIMER The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule to help assure worker health and safety at hazardous waste sites requires introductory, general training on basic hazard recognition, use of provided protective equipment, basic hazard control, decontamination procedures, and other relevant standard operating procedures, as well as training at each site. This program is intended to meet the requirements of the introductory, general training. It must be followed by on-site training, during which the specifics of the protective equipment, decontamination methods, and other procedures and information at the site are discussed and practiced. At that time, the elements of the site-specific standard operating procedures are given in detail. Additional training is necessary to perform many activities. These activities include implementing the emergency response plan, identifying materials using monitoring instruments, selecting protective equipment, and performing advanced control containment or confinement. Additional site-specific training for emergency response must be provided so that you understand how to recognize and respond to alarms at the site and can carry out any role which may be assigned during a response. For information about further training, consult the training instructor, your company safety and health plan, your company health and safety representative, or your union health and safety representative. Preface-9

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