Hazardous & Solid Waste
This term refers to waste that can pose a substantial or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly managed
Hazardous waste
This classification system is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy.
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
This term refers to the dose that actually enters the body
Absorbed dose
List 3 effects of climate change
heat waves
droughts
desertification
severe storms
flooding
sea level rise
melting ice, and
wildfires
What are the three main routes of expsoure?
Inhalation
Dermal
Ingestion
This term refers to the act of putting an item in the recycling bin hoping it will be recycled, even if you aren’t sure if it’s accepted
Wishcycling
This type of control (hierarchy of controls) involves the organization of work shifts and rotation of employees
Administrative controls
This dose refers to the sum of all individual doses.
Cumulative dose
This term means no group of people should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, governmental and commercial operations or policies
Fair treatment
This chemical class of pesticide is linked to immune system suppression, cancer, neurological damage, endocrine disruption, reproductive effects and bioaccumulates in the food change (an example includes DDT)
Organochlorines
What is the top item (most desired) in the hierarchy for municipal solid waste management?
Source reduction and resuse
This apparatus is designed to protect employees from serious workplace illnesses and injuries related to contact with chemicals, radiological, physical, electrical, or other workplace hazards
Personal Protective Equipment
What is the weakest component in risk assessment?
Exposure Assessment
This type of justice refers to fairness int eh decision-making process
Procedural justice
This international agency identifies environmental factors that are carcinogenic hazards to humans.
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs
This type of solid waste management can be used to generate energy while reducing the volume and weight of waste.
Combustion/incineration
This communication product provides transparency and assigns a composite hazard designation.
Skin Notation Profiles
List the 4 steps in risk assessmen t
Hazard identification
Dose-Response
Exposure Assessment
Risk Characterization
This is a legally binding international agreement adopted by 195 countriesin 2015. Aims to limit global temperature rise to well below 2˚C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5˚C(the "Tipping Point") above preindustrial levels
The Paris Agreement
OSHA updated its chemical labilizing requirements to this system in 2016 providing pictograms for recognition of the hazards associated with certain substances
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS)
Name the four major components of municipal solid waste disposal
Recycling
Landfilling
Composting
Combustion
Wildland firefighters are more at risk for what type of death:
Sudden cardiac deaths
This is referred to as the point at which toxicity first appears.
Threshold dose
This U.S. law that included investments in clean energy manufacturing, tax credits for electric vehicles and home energy efficiency, and funding to electrify government fleets.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
Widespread destruction of a city in Texas was caused after a series of explosions and fires due to a ship carrying ammonium nitrate catching fire. What is this disaster which lead to significant changes in regulations for the transportation of hazardous materials?
Texas City Disaster (1947)