Seminars
| The first 200 registrants are eligible to attend a FREE Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) class sponsored by Heritage
Environmental Service on Wednesday, August 11, at the Hotel Roanoke.
Required annually per EPA (40 CFR 265.16 / 40 CFR 262.34(d)(5)(iii))
Tentative topics to be covered:
1) RCRA overiew
a) Generator
b) What is hazardous waste
c) Waste codes
d) Accumualationof waste
e) Container management
f) Contingency plans
g) Universal Waste and other types of waste
h) Land Disposal Restrictions
2) Overview on new standards for TSDFs (Macts standard, etc..)
3) How to deal with episodic excess accumulation of waste for
SQG and CESQG
4) Overview of DOT security plan requirements
5) Labpacks
a) Regulation update on changes to 49 CFR 173.12
b) Clarification on management of OSHA carcinogens
c) Discussion on treatment vs wetting of certain materials
d) DOT exemptions and Competent authority requirements
6) EPA's new rules and interpretations
a) Exclusion of Solvent-Contaminated Rags
b) E-waste
Class space is limited.
Basic Radiation Safety Training class is sponsored by Ecology
Service on Sunday, August 8, from 10 am to 2 pm at the Hotel Roanoke.
The cost is $ 25 which includes lunch
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I. Fundamentals of Radiation Safety
A. Characteristics of ionizing radiation
B. Radiation units (including SI units)
C. Levels of radiation from sources
II. Health Risks Associated with Exposure to Radiation
A. Classification of effects
B. Health risk estimates
C. Natural and background radiation levels
III. Standards for Protection Against Radiation
A. Permissible doses, levels and concentrations
B. Special precautions for prenatal exposure
C. Precautionary procedures (personnel monitoring, area restrictions,
caution signs and labels.
IV. Notices, Instructions and Reports to Workers, Inspections
A. Notices and instructions to workers (licensed activities, hazards,
and exposure data)
B. Procedures for complaints, inspections, and violations
V. Radiation Detection Instrumentation
A. Theory, operation and limitations of radiation survey instruments.
B. Total dose instruments and personnel monitoring devices.
VI. Procedures for Controlling Exposure to Radioactive Material
A. Hazardous communication: caution signs and labels.
B. Safe handling and use of radioisotopes
C. Methods for controlling radiation dose (time, distance, shielding)
D. Personal protective equipment
E. Contamination control.
F. Survey procedures.
VII. Emergency Response to Alarms and Warnings
A. Safety procedures for laboratory operations
B. Accident response.
C. Hazardous communication.
D. Spill response team functions.
VIII. Radioactive Material Waste
A. Hazardous communication: marking and labeling
B. Waste streams
C. Segregation
D. Records
E. Minimization
F. Disposal of radioactive material
This training satisfies the requirements set forth in the 10 CFR part
19.12 Instruction to workers, 29 CFR 1910.1096 Ionizing radiation, and
Code of Maryland Regulation 26.12.01.01 part J section J.12.
Visit the Virginia
Tech EHSS website or contact the registration office at Virginia
Tech at (540) 231-5182 for early bird registration.
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