Despite having a full team in place, do you feel you're still not in control of your hazardous waste programs? Do you completely understand how your organization manages waste and the impacts associated with it? Do you fall short on meeting department goals? Are you tracking the right metrics that will increase your organization’s sustainability? There are several key elements to managing a high-level and elite program with less added cost than you might assume. Reducing cost, improving compliance and sustainability - while maximizing safety - are some of the key components to include in all programs.

1. Four Key Elements To
Strengthen Your Hazardous
Waste Management Program
Make Your Organization More Sustainable!

2. Meet Your Moderator
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Nita Vaidya

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During this Webinar
✓ All lines will be muted.
✓ Communicate via the questions tab in your webinar panel.
✓ Unanswered questions will be responded to personally after
the webinar.
✓ Webinar recording and slides will be emailed to you
tomorrow.

4. Charlotte Scott
Onsite Support Services Manager
Triumvirate Environmental, Inc.
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Meet Your Presenter

5. 1. Lifecycle of Hazardous Materials
2. Compliance – Keep The Doors Open!
3. Safety & Security Procedures
4. Sustainability & Proactivity
Summary / Q&A
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Agenda

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Lifecycle of Hazardous Material:
Supply Chain

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Lifecycle of Hazardous
Material: Inventory
• Delivered on your site because of
research, patient or production needs
• Chemical inventory is required
▪ Labs, medication room, stock rooms,
storage distribution centers
▪ Know where it is!
▪ Know what is there!

8. Lifecycle of Hazardous Material:
Storage and Use
• Researchers, production line specialists, patient
care professionals, environmental services,
facilities, etc.
• Keep chemicals segregated and secure
• Mixtures have different chemical components
• Know what the hazards are for the safety of
your staff and others
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9. Lifecycle of Hazardous
Material: Disposal
▪ Waste characterization
▪ Labeling and segregation
▪ Packaging for transport
▪ Consolidation
▪ Storage for transport
▪ Shipment to end disposal
▪ Treatment method
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10. Poll Question
Do you feel confident you
have control over what
hazardous materials enter
your site on a day-to-day
basis?
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11. 1. Lifecycle of Hazardous Materials
2. Compliance – Keep The Doors Open!
3. Safety & Security Procedures
4. Sustainability & Proactivity
Summary / Q&A
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Agenda

12. Regulatory Requirements
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Regulations are always changing
▪ Some state regulations can be very strict
▪ Need to stay up to date
▪ DPH
▪ Clean Air Act
▪ Clean Water Act
▪ State-Specific
Regulations
▪ OSHA
▪ EPA (RCRA)
▪ DOT
▪ IATA
Problem?
▪ Lack of understanding or skills
Following Regulations

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Compliance Inspections/
Assessments
• Types of inspections dependent
on hazardous materials
▪ Main Accumulation Areas
▪ Satellite Accumulation Areas (state-
specific)
▪ Other Wastes
- Universal
- Biological
- Radiological
▪ Chemical storage
▪ Lab Audits
▪ Contingency Plan Requirements
▪ Mechanical spaces

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Compliance Completion
• How do you tackle this work?
▪ Internal vs external
• Many elite programs have help!
▪ Specialized labor
▪ Struggle to keep organization due to
outside costs
▪ This is usually not your only job!

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Elite Compliance
• What is an Elite Compliance Program?
▪ Full understanding of environmental impacts
of an industry
▪ Complex knowledge of chemical inventories
• Number 1 Priority for an Elite Program
▪ Understand what makes a complete
program
- Regulations and responsibilities
- Document control
• Continued Costs
▪ Updated trainings
▪ Consistent monitoring
▪ Ongoing maintenance

16. Do you feel confident that
you would be able to pass a
hazardous waste regulatory
inspection?
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Poll Question

17. 1. Lifecycle of Hazardous Materials
2. Compliance – Keep The Doors Open!
3. Safety & Security Procedures
4. Sustainability & Proactivity
Summary / Q&A
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Agenda

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Safety
• Handling hazardous materials biggest
factor
▪ People who:
- Work with it
- Around it
- Moving/storing it
• Security of the material is just as
important
▪ Locked?
▪ Out in the open?
▪ The general public?

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Emergency Response
• Are you ready?
• Who do you call?
• Who is trained onsite?
• What can you do to make sure this
system is set up?
• Response needed
▪ Safe
▪ Efficient
▪ Accurate
▪ Consistent

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Safety Equipment
• General Lab/Facility
Management:
▪ Eyewashes
▪ Safety showers
▪ Fire extinguishers
▪ AED’s
▪ Spill kits (chemical & biological)
▪ Fire alarms
▪ Specific alarms for hazardous
material control

21. 1. Lifecycle of Hazardous Materials
2. Compliance – Keep The Doors Open!
3. Safety & Security Procedures
4. Sustainability & Proactivity
Summary / Q&A
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Agenda

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Sustainability & Proactivity
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
• Hazardous Material Diversion
▪ Saves time and money
▪ Less on site = less disposal
▪ Separating waste streams
• Gaining Control
▪ Understanding what is onsite
▪ Limit outside ordering of hazardous materials
▪ Partner with the purchasing department
▪ Know key planning & improvement directors

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Sustainability &
Circular Economy
• Turn ‘Waste’ into Re-Usable Products
• Systems Thinking
• Single-use devices
▪ Collection services
• Old drums or containers
▪ Empty, consolidate contents and send
for recycling
• Biologicals
▪ Treat, sort and turn into plastic
• Recycling

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Sustainability Metrics
• What metrics should you be tracking?
• Established guidelines and standards available
• Examples:
▪ Waste generation and disposal method
▪ Chemical and waste spills
▪ Compliance records/violations and fines
▪ Recycled input materials used
▪ New suppliers screens using environmental
criteria
▪ Negative environmental impacts in the supply chain actions taken

25. 1. Lifecycle of Hazardous Materials
2. Compliance – Keep The Doors Open!
3. Safety & Security Procedures
4. Sustainability & Proactivity
Summary / Q&A
25
Agenda

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For a Stronger Hazardous Waste
Program
• Full understanding of the hazardous
materials process
• Compliance of entire facility
• Safety and security
• A sustainable program

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Elite Programs are Necessary
for Success
• Workload too high?
• Too much training to worry about keeping staff
up-to-date?
• Documentation too complex for a small staff?
• Not your main focus?
• Consider external support for added value
success
▪ Add expertise
▪ Add time to your work day
▪ Rely on experts

28. THANK YOU!
Request a Free Onsite
Services Strategy Session:
http://info.triumvirate.com/free-onsite-services-strategy-session
Charlotte Scott: cscott@triumvirate.com