Emergency Equipment
Waste Categorization
Grab Bag
Accumulation Areas
Administrative Stuff
100
This emergency response equipment must be tested by PPCS annually.
What is a fire extinguisher and safety shower?
100
This is a waste with a pH of less than 2 or greater than 12.5.
What is corrosive waste?
100
This is any portable device in which material can be stored, handled, treated, transported, recycled, or disposed of.
What is a container?
100
This is where a large quantity generator may accumulate up to 55 gallons of each waste type at the point of generation for up to one year.
What is a Satellite Accumulation Area?
100
This document must be accurate and be sent to DTSC within 30 days of a hazardous waste shipment.
What is a manifest?
200
This plan is required for LQG sites (main campus) and includes names and home phone numbers of the primary emergency responders.
What is a Contingency Plan? (A LQG generates more than 1,000 kg or 2,200 pounds of hazardous waste each month).
200
You might find this on the MSDS to find out if a substance is toxic.
What is an LD50? (If 2,500 mg/l or less can kill 50% of the test organisms (Lethal Dose at 50%) waste is considered toxic.
200
These are hazardous wastes that contain mercury, lead, cadmium, copper and other substances hazardous to human and environmental health. Examples are batteries, fluorescent tubes, and some electronic devices.
What are Universal Wastes?
200
A container which previously held acute or extremely hazardous waste and has been triple rinsed with solvent (or other cleaning method approved by the CUPA).
What is an empty container?
200
This must be kept for current haz-mat employees until closure of the facility (or at least three years from the date the employee last worked at the facility).
What is hazardous waste generator training record?
300
When responding to a spill, this must be worn if a toxic air contaminant of unknown concentration is present.
What is a supplied air respirator?
300
This is hazardous waste if the concentration exceeds 1% and only if the substance is friable, powdered or finely divided.
What is asbestos? (Asbestos includes chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite, and actinolite.)
300
This material, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical or chemical characteristics, poses a significant present or potential hazard to human health and safety or the environment if released into the work-place or environment.
What is a hazardous material?
300
A container must be located here in a SAA.
What is the point of generation and under the control of the "operator"
300
This number is issued by the EPA to all hazardous waste generators and is site specific.
What is an EPA Identification Number?
400
This is the highest level of protection one wears when the chemical hazard has a high vapor pressure and is toxic through skin absorption (a fully encapsulated chemical suit with breathing apparatus).
What is Level A Personal Protective Equipment? Generally the fire department would respond to such an emergency.
400
This is one of the Federal EPA test methods that is used to characterize waste as either hazardous or non-hazardous. The analysis simulates landfill conditions. Over time, water and other liquids permeates through landfills. These liquids often react with the solid waste in the landfill, and may pose public and environmental health risks because of the contaminants it absorbs.
What is a TCLP? TCLP is an acronym for Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure and is performed by environmental testing labs. If a solid fails the TCLP, the generator then assigns an EPA Hazardous Waste Number (Example: D008 for lead > 5 mg/L).
400
This permit allows UC Berkeley to treat corrosive wastes and discharge the effluent to the sewer.
What is a Conditional Authorization or "Tiered" Permit?
400
This is a legal way to reduce hazardous waste disposal costs in a laboratory.
What is Bench Top Treatment?
400
This state agency taxes generators based on the quantity of hazardous waste that is generated each year.
What is the Board of Equalization?
500
This instrument provides reliable detection of over 200 of the most dangerous chemicals, helping to ensure effective industrial hygiene.
What is a PID (Photo Ionization Detector)? EHS Industrial Hygienist use this device during emergency response situations.
500
An expensive analytical test that will determine if a waste is toxic when the contaminants are NOT on any of the Toxicity Characteristic tables in Title 22.
What is a Static Acute Bioassay or "Fish Bioassay"?
500
These two EH&S people are the primary and secondary Emergency Coordinators for the entire campus.
Who is Steve Maranzana and Brandon DeFrancisci?
500
This is a facility that generates over 100 kg (220 pounds) but less than 1000 kg (2200 pounds) of waste every month.
What is a Small Quantity Generator? Small Quantity Generators (PPCS) may accumulate waste for up to 6 months in the centralized waste accumulation area.
500
This document is required for all RCRA waste shipments to ensure that hazardous waste is treated by "best available technologies" to reduce toxicity before it is land disposed.
What is a Land Disposal Restriction?
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