Hazardous Waste Management Overview

Hazardous Waste Management Overview - Morningside
The Five L’s CoLLect Label Lid Locate Leaks
CoLLect CoLLect all of your hazardous chemical wastes and submit a chemical pick-up request form to EH&S for proper disposal. Please consult with EH&S if you are unsure if your chemical waste is Hazardous Waste. http://vesta.cumc.columbia.edu/ehs/wastepickup/ Evaluate your chemical inventory periodically and coLLect chemicals for disposal that are unwanted, expired or have no intended use. DO NOT- Dispose of Hazardous Waste inappropriately or prior to determining its hazards. Hazardous Waste must not be poured down the drail Label Affix a Hazardous Waste Label to the container as soon as you start collecting waste. List all of the components of the Waste on the Label. *DO NOT* - Use chemical formulae or abbreviations on Hazardous Waste Labels. Lid Keep Hazardous Waste containers closed at all times, except when actively adding or removing waste. Use a closeable Lid that will prevent the Hazardous Waste from spilling should the container be knocked over. *DO NOT* - Leave a funnel in a Hazardous Waste container. Locate Locate Hazardous Waste containers at or near the point of the Hazardous Waste’s generation (a.k.a. Satellite Accumulation Area). *DO NOT* - Locate Hazardous Waste containers outside of the room in which the waste was generated. Leaks Inspect Satellite Accumulation Areas weekly for Leaks. *DO NOT* - Allow Leaking containers to remain in Satellite Accumulation Areas. Contact EH&S upon discovering the leak. When a waste container is 90% full, submit a Chemical Waste Pick-up Request Form by visiting:http://vesta.cumc.columbia.edu/ehs/wastepickup/ August 2008

CoLLect

CoLLect all of your hazardous chemical wastes and submit a chemical pick-up request form to EH&S for proper disposal. Please consult with EH&S if you are unsure if your chemical waste is Hazardous Waste. http://vesta.cumc.columbia.edu/ehs/wastepickup/
Evaluate your chemical inventory periodically and coLLect chemicals for disposal that are unwanted, expired or have no intended use.
DO NOT- Dispose of Hazardous Waste inappropriately or prior to determining its hazards. Hazardous Waste must not be poured down the drail

Label

Affix a Hazardous Waste Label to the container as soon as you start collecting waste.
List all of the components of the Waste on the Label.
DO NOT - Use chemical formulae or abbreviations on Hazardous Waste Labels.

Lid

Keep Hazardous Waste containers closed at all times, except when actively adding or removing waste.
Use a closeable Lid that will prevent the Hazardous Waste from spilling should the container be knocked over.
DO NOT - Leave a funnel in a Hazardous Waste container.

Locate

Locate Hazardous Waste containers at or near the point of the Hazardous Waste’s generation (a.k.a. Satellite Accumulation Area).
DO NOT - Locate Hazardous Waste containers outside of the room in which the waste was generated.

Leaks

Inspect Satellite Accumulation Areas weekly for Leaks.
DO NOT - Allow Leaking containers to remain in Satellite Accumulation Areas. Contact EH&S upon discovering the leak.

When a waste container is 90% full, submit a Chemical Waste Pick-up Request Form by visiting:http://vesta.cumc.columbia.edu/ehs/wastepickup/

August 2008

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