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Hazardous Waste Inspection Checklist for EPA Visits

Appropriate handling of hazardous waste is essential to the safety of your employees, business and community. Failure to comply with proper handling requirements could lead to potential risk of serious injury or health problems. By preventing toxic spills or accidents, you’ll save yourself time, money, health risk and a huge mess.

What Does It Mean to Be Certified?

Our experts at MLI Environmental explain what it means to offer certified hazardous material services: (more…)

Top 4 Ways the E-Manifest System Will Affect You, The Generator

1. Generators need to register In order to initiate a hazardous waste shipment, the generator must register at RCRA info to register your site and create a user account. It is recommended that two people are signed up as site managers to manage the site and be able to manage hazardous waste shipments. 2.

How Will the E-Manifest Affect You, the Generator?

As of June 30th, 2018, The Environmental Protection Agency is establishing a new system for tracking hazardous waste shipments. This new system is known as the “e-Manifest” and its purpose is to make the tracking of hazardous waste shipments much easier and be more conservative with time, energy, and resources. The e-Manifest is not yet mandatory but it is recommended and encouraged.

Maintaining Your Waste Stream Profiles

Does your facility frequently ship routine hazardous waste streams? If so you have heard of a waste stream profile. These are required by the EPA when shipping wastes. Waste stream profiles are used if an accident occurs and hazmat crews need to be able to identify waste streams and safely clean a contaminated area.

How to Properly Inspect Safety Equipment

When hazardous chemicals are being used, handled, or stored, hazardous safety equipment is should be nearby. As part of a contingency plan, it is required that all staff know about the emergency procedures and safety equipment that are on site.

Top 11 Hazardous Waste Management Violations – Part I

In our last blog, Top 4 Hazardous Waste Container Violations, we began discussing some violations that can occur when storing your hazardous waste. The main reasons people schedule hazardous waste pickups is to stay compliant with EPA regulations or because they have received an audit by the EPA and need to dispose of materials they did not know were hazardous.

Top 7 Reasons Your Hazardous Waste Management is Out of Compliance

In 2015 Congress amended the FCPIA Act of 1990. This change has required the EPA and OSHA to increase their civil monetary penalties. Some of these penalties have increased to over $51,000 per violation. Businesses cannot afford to put off their hazardous waste compliance any longer without risking the consequences. 7 Requirements Auditors Look For 1.

Chemical Hygiene Plans – How You Keep Your Job and Save Money

We find that generators of chemical wastes that get “visited” frequently are usually up to speed with regulations and storage containment periods. For the larger generators such as “Blue Chip” companies, it is not unusual for a “visit” or inspection to unveil violations due to huge quantities of wastes and multiple locations.

Ready for an EPA Audit?

MLI Environmental is expanding our physical area of coverage so as to include the New England and the New York Tri-State area. The laborious task of EPA audits will help assist your CEOs and Facility Managers to ensure your facility is “Environmentally Healthy” and chemically safe.