Hazardous Waste Management (Online)
3 hours · $59.95
Description
This professional engineer license renewal PDH course explains the collection, treatment, and disposal of waste material that, when improperly handled, can cause substantial harm to human health and safety or to the environment. Hazardous wastes can take the form of solids, liquids, sludge, or contained gases, and they are generated primarily by chemical production, manufacturing, and other industrial activities. They may cause damage during inadequate storage, transportation, treatment, or disposal operations. Improper hazardous-waste storage or disposal frequently contaminates surface and groundwater supplies. People living in homes built near old and abandoned waste disposal sites may be in a particularly vulnerable position. In an effort to remedy existing problems and to prevent future harm from hazardous wastes, governments closely regulate the practice of hazardous-waste management.
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The Professional Engineer license renewal course teaches management of hazardous wastes from technical and regulatory points of view, Introduction to RCRA: waste management act and provisions/subtitles, evolution of RCRA legislation, components of RCRA, RCRA and its interrelationship to other environmental statutes, Identification of hazardous waste, hazardous waste exclusions and exemptions, types of hazardous waste: listed and characteristic hazardous wastes, mixture rule, hazardous waste recycling and universal wastes, hazardous waste generators and transporters, hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs), land disposal restrictions, combustion, and permitting for TSDFs. This PE renewal course is suggested for civil engineers, environmental engineers, and solid and hazardous waste landfill managers and operators.
Course Objectives
The PE continuing education course is designed to provide basic definition of hazardous wastes, introduction to RCRA, evolution of RCRA legislation, components of RCRA, RCRA and its interrelationship to other environmental statutes, identification of hazardous waste, hazardous waste exclusions and exemptions, types of hazardous waste, mixture rule, hazardous waste recycling and universal wastes, hazardous waste generators and transporters, hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs), land disposal restrictions, combustion, and permitting for TSDFs. This course is suggested for civil engineers, environmental engineers, and solid and hazardous waste landfill managers and operators.
After completing this course, the professional engineer will be able to:
- Define hazardous waste (HW) from working, technical, and regulatory points of view
- Explain the historical roots of HW management and landmark episodes
- Identify HW and know the HW exclusions and exemptions
- Classify the types of HW
- Describe the HW recycling and universal waste (UW)
- Discuss the types of HW generators and transporters
- Explain the processes of permitting TSDFs and types of special permits.
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PDH Credits
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