The areas covered by HAZWOPER standard

HAZWOPER (Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response), under OSHA has conducted five types of hazardous waste operations according to its specific areas. Employers must have to comply with the standard of safety requirements of OSHA to conduct the operations.

The areas that are specified by HAZWOPER for conducting hazardous waste operations are discussed below:

• Clean-up operations are conducted at the sites that do not have control on hazardous wastes. Clean-up operations are required by the Government (Federal or local state) and the sites that are included in EPA’s National Priority List and State Priority List.

• Emergency Response Operations are conducted in the sites that have threats of releasing the hazardous wastes. There are many industries that do not consider at all the location of the hazard. In such case, Emergency Response Operation is carried out.

• There is another kind of operation that is called Voluntary Clean-up Operation which is conducted at the uncontrolled hazardous waste sites that are identified by Federal, state, local or any other government body.

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 covers some hazardous sites and corrective actions that involve the clean-up operations are conducted at those sites also.

• 40 CFR Parts 264 and 265 or any agreed agencies with U.S.E.P.A. aiming at implementing RCRA regulations has regulated storage, treatment and disposal facilities at may working sites. Operations are conducted in these sites also.

These are the areas where HAZWOPER has conducted hazardous waste operations and given a better environment to the workers and also to all the inhabitants of the specific areas.