Category: Hazardous Waste Management

Hazardous Waste Training Requirements: How to Build Your Lab’s Program

The inspector has shown up to your facility unannounced. She’s in the waste-accumulation area, scouring the manifest from last month. She takes note of who signed it and asks to see the person’s training record; he’s a research associate who started seven months ago, someone you judge to be competent at his job. But your […]

Hazardous Waste vs. Biohazardous Waste: What’s the Difference?

You’re standing at the bin with two containers and an important question you don’t know the answer to: Which waste stream do the contents go into? A leaking solvent bottle and a blood-soaked wipe both feel dangerous, but they’re dangerous in very different ways. One threatens you with chemistry. The other threatens you with biology. […]

Top 5 Waste Management Trends to Look Out For in 2022

Another year is behind us, and we’re looking forward to 2022. We see some exciting changes in store for waste management next year! Here are the upcoming ones we’re most excited for! 1. Local and Federal Governments Will Amp Up Incentives for Businesses to Go Green Overflowing landfills and polluted oceans are continuing to be […]

Are You Complying with OSHA’s Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens Standard?

Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1970 to set and enforce standards to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for the American workforce. Over the past 50 years, OSHA has passed “standards” to protect workers involved in various industries, focusing on workplaces where hazardous materials are present. For example, in 1991, […]