Education & Training
HAZMAT Course Curriculum

Teamsters Hazardous Waste Training School for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Eastern Region is now available at its new location, Local 251, E. Providence, RI. We are able to provide training at your local or specified location combining several locals with total class size of 15 or more students. Training is FREE and materials are provided at no cost. Upon completion of courses, all students will receive certificates for training courses completed.

Syllabus

1910.120 Hazardous Waste Worker Training

1910. 120 Annual Refresher

Emergency Response Training

OSHA 10 Hour Construction Safety Course

DOT HM-126F Transportation Awareness

Radiological Worker Training II

 

 

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1910.120 Hazardous Waste Worker Training

This training and materials are presently provided at no cost to the student.

The student must be able to present a valid DOT physical card or Doctor's physical stating that the individual may wear a respirator.

The training is a five-day 40-hour course covering 15 chapters in the student workbook and related hands on activities. The chapters consist of the following:

1. Rights and Responsibilities of the Hazardous Waste Worker

  • Training Requirements
  • Government agencies responsible for protecting:
    A. Workers
    B. Transportation
    C. The Environment

2. The HAZWOPER Standard

  • OSHA requirements for worker safety and health at Hazardous waste operations

3. Safety and Hazards

  • Preventing accidents. Fire and explosion
  • Confined Space. Chemical incompatibility
  • Work surfaces. Vehicles and heavy equipment
  • Underground utilities. Overhead utilities
  • Electrical hazards. Heavy lifting
  • Excavations
  • Fire and explosion
  • Chemical incompatibility
  • Vehicles and heavy equipment
  • Overhead utilities
  • Heavy lifting

4. Health Hazards

  • Health of chemicals. Chemical forms
  • Routes of exposure. Acute and chronic effects
  • Exposure limits. Heat and cold stress
  • Noise and vibration. Radiation
  • Biological hazards
  • Chemical forms
  • Acute and chronic effects
  • Heat and cold stress Radiation

5. Medical Surveillance

  • Medical surveillance programs
  • Whose covered
  • The occupational medical exam

6. Hazard communication

  • The OSHA HAZCOM Standard
  • Chemical container labels
  • Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
  • DOT Placards labels and markings
  • The NFPA labels system
  • Resources for information about chemicals

7. Respiratory Protection (1)

  • Respiratory hazards
  • Types of respirators
  • Air purifying respirators
  • How much protection do respirators provide
  • Medical fitness for wearing a respirator
  • Choosing the right respirator

8. Respiratory Protection (2)

  • When atmosphere supplying respirators are required
  • Self contained breathing apparatus (SCBA)
  • Air line respirator (SAR)
  • How much do these respirators provide
  • Medical fitness for wearing an atmosphere respirator
  • Choosing the right respirator

9. Protective Clothing

  • Protective clothing types and materials
  • Permeation, penetration and degradation
  • Levels of protection
  • Inspecting protective clothing
  • Selecting proactive clothing
  • Wearing protective clothing
10. Decontamination
  • Preventing contamination
  • Decontamination methods
  • Equipment and supplies
  • Decontamination lines
  • Vehicle decontamination
  • Emergency decontamination

11. Hazard Control

  • Site and Safety Health Plan
  • Site characterization
  • Site controls zones and boundary lines
  • Communication and alarms
  • The buddy system
  • Standard operating procedures
  • Emergency response plans

12. Air Monitoring

  • Direct reading instruments vs. sampling for laboratory analysis
  • Limitations of direct reading instruments
  • Proper use of direct reading instruments
  • Calibration and maintenance

13. Handling drums and containers

  • Inspecting drums
  • Opening drums
  • Drum sampling
  • Over packing drums
  • Drum staging Confined Spaces

14. Confined Spaces

  • Recognizing confined spaces
  • Hazardous atmosphere in confined spaces
  • Other hazards in confined spaces
  • Confined space permits
  • Confined space entry procedure

15. Hazardous Material Transportation

  • Hazardous material transportation regulations
  • Identifying hazardous materials
  • Shipping papers
  • Placards and labels
  • Loading hazardous materials
  • Transporting hazardous materials

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1910.120 8 Hour Refresher

An 8-hour refresher is required annually for all certified hazardous waste workers to maintain their 1910.120 certification.

The 8-hour class consists of a material review and introduction to any new or innovative material developed to insure safe work practices and inform students of any changes regarding their work regarding HAZWOPER.

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Emergency Response Training

Course 1      First responders at the awareness level

Workers who are likely to witness or discover a hazardous Substance release and who have been trained to protect themselves by leaving the area and to initiate an emergency response by notifying the proper authorities. These workers may also isolates the area and deny access to others

Course 2      First responders at the operation level

Workers who respond to a hazardous substance release in a defensive fashion, in order to contain the release from a safe distance, keep it from spreading, and prevent exposures. These workers may also isolate the area and deny access to others.

Two 8 hour days, presently no expiration dates or renewal required

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OSHA 10 Hour Construction Safety Course

1. The OSHA Standards

  • Responsibilities of Employers and Employees
  • Dangerous work
  • OSHA rights
  • General Safety and Health Provisions

2. Electrical Safety

  • Electrical hazards
  • Installation safety requirements
  • Ground fault protection
  • Safety-related work practices
  • Hazardous locations
  • Requirements for special equipment

3. Fall Protection

  • Fall protection standard, scope and application
  • Fall protection systems
  • Fall protection in specific work activities
  • Training

4. Materials Handling

  • Storage, use. And disposal
  • Cranes and derricks
  • Slings
  • Powered industrial trucks
  • Ergonomics
  • Heavy lifting
  • Sling safety

5. Motor Vehicles

  • Mechanized equipment
  • Material handling equipment
  • Powered industrial trucks
  • Vehicle decontamination

6. Scaffolding

  • Scaffolding standard
  • Hazards
  • Scope, application, and definitions
  • Scaffold platform construction
  • Specific types of scaffolds

7. Excavations

  • Specific excavation requirements
  • General safety requirements
  • Protective systems
  • Trench and excavation failure
  • Soil type sand testing
  • Slopping benching
  • Shoring and shielding

8. Stairways and ladders

  • Scope and application
  • General requirements
  • Stairways
  • Ladders
  • Training requirements

9. Toxic and Hazardous Substances

  • Health effects of chemicals
  • Routes of entry
  • Where and when a chemical effects you
  • Hazard communication
  • HAZCOM labels
  • Material safety data sheets (MSDS)
  • Are you exposed

10. Tools-Hand and Power

  • Basic safety rules
  • Guards, switches Powder-actuated tools

11. Personal protective equipment

  • Personal protective and life saving equipment
  • Eye, ear, hearing, head, and foot protection
  • Do you need a respirator
  • Air purifying (APR)
  • Air supplying respirators, SAR's and SCBA's
  • Protective clothing

12. Confined Spaces

  • OSHA standard for confined spaces
  • What is a confined space
  • What makes a confined space dangerous
  • Before you enter a confined space
  • Air monitoring for confined space

13. Fire Protections and Prevention

  • OSHA Standard
  • Fire Protection
  • Fire Prevention
  • Bonding and grounding of containers
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Construction site fire safety check list

14. Heats, Cold, Noise and Vibration

  • The four types of Heat stress
  • Monitoring for heat stress
  • Preventing heat stress
  • Noise exposure can damage your hearing
  • Controlling noise exposure,
  • Hearing conservation program
  • 5 types of cold stress and prevention
  • Vibration

This 10-hour course is usually offered as two 5-hour classes and a certificate is issued upon completion. Presently this card needs no renewal.

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DOT HM-126F
Transportation awareness

This 4 hour course is included in the 40 hour Hazardous Waste Worker Course or can be conducted as a stand alone class. Participants will receive the DOT HM-126 F card good for 3 years.

Hazardous Material Transportation

  • Hazardous material transportation regulation and standards
    DOT regulations
    Training requirements
    Shipper's responsibility
    Carrier's responsibility
    Driver's responsibility
    Hazard communication
    HAZCOM labels and MSDS's
    Dangerous work

  • Health effects of hazardous materials
    Routes of entry
    Where and when a chemical effects you
    Personal protective equipment
    Radioactive materials

  • Identifying Hazardous Materials
    DOT Hazard classes
    Shipping papers
    Reportable quantity
    Hazardous material table
    Marking and labels Placards

  • Handling and loading hazardous material
    Segregation table
    Explosives
    Radioactive materials

  • Transporting Hazardous Materials
    Driving HAZMAT
    Parking vehicles containing HAZMAT
    Accidents
    Leaks and spills
    ERG book Incident reports
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Radiological Worker Training II

Prerequisite to taking this Rad II course is the 40 Hazardous Waste Workers Training.

1. Radiological Fundamentals

  • Atomic Structure
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Radiation vs. contamination
  • Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Neutron Radiation
  • Units of measure

2. Biological effects of Radiation

  • Sources of Radiation
  • Natural sources
  • Man-made sources
  • Health effects of Radiation
  • Acute exposures
  • Chronic exposures
  • Risk in perspective

3. Radiation limits

  • DOE dose limits
  • DOE administrative control levels
  • Facility administrative control levels
  • Worker responsibilities

4. The ALARA program

  • Time, distance, and shielding
  • Reducing internal dose
  • Minimizing radioactive waste

5. Personal Monitoring

  • External dosimetry
  • Internal monitoring

6. Radiological posting and controls

  • Radiological work permits (RWP's)
  • Radiological postings
  • Radiation areas
  • Contamination areas
  • Radiological buffer areas
  • Other radiological areas

7. High and Very high radiation areas

  • Entry and Exit requirements
  • Working requirements
  • Emergencies

8. Radiological emergencies

  • Emergency alarms and responses
  • Employee responsibilities
  • Response to emergency situations
  • Rescue and recovery operations
  • Emergency dose guidelines

9. Radioactive Contamination Controls

  • Types and sources of contamination
  • Response to spills
  • Contamination controls
  • Protective clothing and respirators
  • Frisking procedure
  • Decontamination
  • Contamination areas, high and very high

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