Hazardous Waste Management and Pollution: Contamination & Hazardous Waste - Management & Prevention

OVERVIEW

Contamination may arise as a result of human activities on the environment discuss the overwhelming pollution caused by human activities, which can be prevented and controlled. All the business sectors, from large industry, and healthcare to small businesses, and farm households contribute to generating hazardous waste. Contamination can occur in several forms such as ground and surface water, soil, air, radioactive, food, noise, mold, odors, construction, and vibration. etc. Pollution that is not handled properly and professionally will always be a health problem and a bad influence on the environment. That’s why, every business and company should take care of their environment and give extra attention to their waste management and pollution. By having the proper waste management and pollution the companies or industries might contribute to preventing and reducing the generation of hazardous waste by industry and society generally, maximizing the collection of hazardous waste to reduce the environmental and health impacts of any unregulated waste, striving for increased self-sufficiency in the management of hazardous waste and to minimize hazardous waste export, minimize the environmental, health, social and economic impacts of hazardous waste generation and management.

This training is addressed to provide further knowledge about the types of contaminants, the latest issue of contamination, and how to eliminate or minimize these contaminants. In addition, the use of alternative non-hazardous products in the company's effective, and environmentally friendly method of disposal for hazardous and non-hazardous waste.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Learn and identify the types of contamination that fit with the company
• Encourage and facilitate the dialogue of people with issues on specific contaminants of concern in their organization and the opportunity to develop a regional network in the GCC region to address common problems
• Understanding agreements with relevant environmental contamination and pollution
• How to prioritize and handle pollution in the waste management problems in a logical sequence
• Building a close relationship between human health and the environment directly affected by contamination
• Discuss the current methodology for the clean-up of contaminated soils, groundwater and surface water, air pollution, building materials, and radioactive materials

TARGET PARTICIPANTS

• Health & Safety Environmental Professionals
• Staff responsible for managing hazardous wastes
• Staff responsible for contamination issues
• Laboratory Technicians
• Mechanical engineers and technicians
• Operation, inspection, and repair managers, supervisors, engineers, and technicians
• Production managers, supervisors, engineers, and technicians
• Project leaders

COURSE CONTENT

1. INTRODUCTION

• What is contamination and the impact
• Types of hazardous contamination
• Worldwide current contamination issues
• International Environmental Treaties
• Overview of pollution monitoring technologies
• Regulations governing storage and transportation of hazardous materials (national, provincial, regional, municipal)

2. MANAGEMENT OF CONTAMINATION AND HAZARDOUS WASTES

• Relation between contamination and occupational health and safety
• Personal safety (Handling flammable materials, corrosive material, poisonous substances, radioactive materials, protective equipment, and clothing)
• Some typical Hazardous Waste Regulations that fit with the company
• Contamination Audit
• Managing a Waste Disposal Site (Water supplies, air, soil, radioactive, ground and surface water, food, noise, mold, odors, construction, vibration)

3. CONTAMINATION AND POLLUTION PREVENTION

• Material balance systems
• Exploration and production
• Building/plant design/layout
• The common thread of pollution issues in third-world countries
• Management systems
• Requirement storage for hazardous materials
• Updated information on ISO 14001, 18001 and 9001
• Environmental Code of Conduct (ethics)

4. CONTINGENCY PLANNING

• Planning for emergency accidents
• The team’s response to accidents
• Examples of Environmental Ethics from the Instructor’s personal experiences
• Climate Change update and its significance for the Gulf Coast Countries

5. COSTS AND BENEFITS

• Cost-benefit trade-offs
• Opportunity costs
• Costs of implementing (or not implementing) safety measures
• Ethical issues