Despite having a full team in place, do you feel you are still not in control of your hazardous waste programs? Do you fall short on meeting department goals? 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. Key Components of an
Elite Hazardous Waste
Management Program
Gain Control and Succeed!

2. Meet Your Moderator
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James Ciccone

3. 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.
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4. Meet Your Presenter
Mike Albert
Onsite Support Services Manager
Triumvirate Environmental, Inc.
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5. Agenda
Lifecycle of Hazardous Materials
Compliance – Keep the Doors Open!
Safety & Security Procedures
Sustainability and Proactivity
Summary / Q&A
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6. Lifecycle of Hazardous
Material: Arrival & Storage
• Delivered on your site because of
research, patient or production needs
• Chemical inventory is very important:
 Lives in labs, medication room, stock
rooms, storage distribution centers
 Know where it is!
 Know what is there!
 Keep hazardous material safe and
segregated
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7. • Using the material properly
 Researchers, production line specialists, patient care
professionals, environmental services, facilities, etc.
 Keep them safe!
 Keep the chemicals secure
• Sampling material for hazards
 Mixtures used with different chemical components
 Know what the hazards are for the safety of your
staff and others
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Lifecycle of Hazardous
Material: Uses and Mixtures

8. • Disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste
 Labeling and segregation
 Packaging for transport
 Consolidation
 Storage for transport
 Shipment to end disposal
• Are all hazardous material disposal methods
created equal?
 No – material dependent
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Lifecycle of Hazardous
Material: Disposal

9. 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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10. Agenda
Lifecycle of Hazardous Materials
Compliance – Keep the Doors Open!
Safety & Security Procedures
Sustainability and Proactivity
Summary / Q&A
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11. Regulations
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

12. Managing Compliance:
Inspections/Assessments
• Types of inspections dependent on hazardous
materials
 Main Accumulation Areas
 Satellite Accumulation Areas (state-specific time
frames)
 Other Wastes
- Universal
- Biological
- Radiological
 API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient)
 Lab Audits
 Contingency Plan Requirements
 Life/Chemical Safety
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13. Achieving Compliance
• 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!
Without dedicated time, labor and
materials, state and federal regulators can
shut the doors if not followed!
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14. Elite Compliance
• What is an Elite Compliance Program?
 Full understanding of environmental impacts of an industry
 Complex knowledge of chemical and non-chemical inventories
 Completed documentation of multi-faceted and forward-facing
programs
• Number 1 Priority for an Elite Program
 Understand what makes a complete program
- Regulations and responsibilities
- Document control is very important
• Continued Costs
 Updated trainings
 Consistent monitoring
 Ongoing maintenance & monitoring
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15. Agenda
Lifecycle of Hazardous Materials
Compliance – Keep the Doors Open!
Safety & Security Procedures
Sustainability and Proactivity
Summary / Q&A
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16. Safety
• OSHA
 Keep your people safe!
• Handling hazardous materials biggest factor
 People WHO:
- Work with it
- Around it
- Moving/storing it
• Security of the material is just as important
 Locked up
 Hard to access areas
 Out in the open
 The general public access
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17. Emergency Response
• Handling Spills
• Communication
• Internally trained staff
• Getting a cohesive system set-up
• Response needed
 Safe
 Efficient
 Accurate
 Consistent
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18. Safety Equipment:
Set-up & Maintenance
• General Lab/Facility
Management:
 Eyewashes
 Safety showers
 Fire extinguishers
 AED’s
 Spill kits (chemical & biological)
 Fire alarms
 Specific alarms for hazardous
material control
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19. Safety Equipment
Inspections
• Need inspections to monitor all safety equipment
• Programs in place to change out/fix systems
• Personnel who are trained to do it
 Some required to be licensed professionals
• Automated vs. manual program?
 Customized to fit your needs
 Experience to meet your needs
• Standards vs. regulations
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20. Agenda
Lifecycle of Hazardous Materials
Compliance – Keep the Doors Open!
Safety & Security Procedures
Sustainability and Proactivity
Summary / Q&A
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21. Sustainability &
Proactivity
• Manage materials continually in a facility
• Understand usage in a facility
• Get sophisticated around waste
characterization and collection
• Seek out innovative waste management
ideas and trends
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22. Manage Incoming
Material
• Get ahead of the ordering
 Inventory/ordering systems with notifications
 Training of lab staff
 Full chemical inventory system – stock rooms
 Monitoring/tracking for maintenance and facility stock
areas
 Policies and requirements within the facility
• Think differently
 Partner with the purchasing department
 Know key planning & improvement staff
 Stay involved & keep your ears to the ground
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23. Sustainability:
Smarter Management
• Less hazardous materials on site = less
disposal
• Less high-hazard materials = less disposal &
increased safety
• Separation of waste streams
 Think paper recycling but with hazardous materials
 Consolidation of like material
 Separation of hazardous material from larger
volumes of non-hazardous materials
• Material in the correct waste stream?
 Many waste streams can be separated to save
money, time and be sustainable in the process
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24. Seek Innovative Re-
Use and Recycling
Alternatives
• Single-use devices
 Collection services
• Biologicals
 Treat, sort and turn into plastic
• Old drums or containers
 Empty, consolidate contents and send for
recycling
• High volume could yield high reward
• Low volume could yield high reward
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25. Agenda
Lifecycle of Hazardous Materials
Compliance – Keep the Doors Open!
Safety & Security Procedures
Sustainability and Proactivity
Summary / Q&A
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26. Elite Programs
• Full understanding of the
hazardous materials process
• Compliance of entire facility
• Safety at the forefront
• Keeping your safety equipment
and systems up to date
• Understanding proactivity is
better for everyone
• Making your program sustainable
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27. Elite Programs are
Necessary for Success
• Workload may be too high
• Might be too much training to worry about keeping
staff up-to-date OR work-load on site doesn’t
require it
• Documentation is complex for a small staff (Budget)
• Not your main focus
• Consider external support for added value success
 Add expertise
 Add time to your work day
 Rely on experts
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28. THANK YOU!
Request a Free Onsite
Services Strategy Session:
http://info.triumvirate.com/free-onsite-services-strategy-session
Mike Albert: malbert@triumvirate.com