Improve Your Safety Using Hazwoper Training Courses

1. Improve Your Safety Using HAZWOPER Training Courses

2. About: PDH STAR is a premier online training provider for the construction industry. We provide online and in-person OSHA and NYC Site Safety Training (SST) for site-based staff, as well as PDH Continuing Education online courses and webinars for Professional Engineers, recognized in all states.

3. HAZWOPER • OSHA issued the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) standards, 29 CFR 1910.120 and 29 CFR 1926.65, to protect workers and enable them to handle hazardous substances safely and effectively. The HAZWOPER standard for the construction industry (29 CFR 1926.65) is identical to general industry one (29 CFR 1910.120). • The HAZWOPER standard provides employers, emergency response workers, and other workers potentially exposed to hazardous substances information and training criteria to improve workplace safety and health, and reduce workplace injuries and illnesses that could occur from exposures to hazardous substances.

4. following general categories of work operations: • Hazardous waste site cleanup operations • Operations involving hazardous waste that are conducted at treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities, and • Emergency response operations involving hazardous substance releases.

5. Who Need HAZWOPER training • A Hazwoperonline training program is required under the safety and health program and is also part of the site Health & Safety Program (HASP). This training must be provided to all employees who will work on the site such as equipment operators, general laborers, and supervisors or managers who may have exposure to hazardous substances. • Before performing any work on a hazardous waste site, the employer must provide its employees with initial training based on the tasks and operations that employees will perform and the exposures they are anticipated to experience.

6. What a training should I take? • Below is the training requirements for workers, as per the OSHA 1910.120(e)(3) rule: • General site employees (e.g., equipment operators, general laborers, etc.): • 40 hour Initial training (HAZWOPER 40) • 8 hours annual refresher (HAZWOPER 8 HOUR REFRESHER) • Employees occasionally on site for a limited task (e.g., groundwater monitoring, land surveying, etc.) with minimal exposure • 24 hours initial training (HAZWOPER 24) • 8 hours annual refresher (HAZWOPER 8 HOUR REFRESHER) • Employees regularly on site who are not exposed to health hazards • 24 hours initial training (HAZWOPER 24) • 8 hours annual refresher (HAZWOPER 8 HOUR REFRESHER)

7. UP TO DATE COURSES All of our courses are regularly updated to bring you the current and most relevant information on the topic

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