Managing Special Hazards

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You have just been hired as a National Laboratory’s Environmental, Health, and Safety Manager. You were pleased to see that the previous manager had disposed of nearly all of the wastes stored in the hazardous waste facility but noticed that there was an adjacent shed with a sign that read “Do Not Enter – Authorized Personnel Only.” You also noticed that the door was cracked open and upon shining a light inside, you saw:

  1. A cardboard box labeled “Asbestos (friable) – Insulation.”
  2. A large wooden box labeled “Portable Gauge, Cesium-137.”
  3. A 55-gallon drum labeled “Paint Chips – Pb."

As you moved away from the door, you saw two large containers on the grass on the side of the shed:

  1. A 55-gallon drum labeled “PCB Transformers” (with obvious corrosion and oily liquid saturating the ground adjacent to the drum).
  2. An old 20-gallon plastic container marked “Pesticides - ???? unknown” (with obvious spillage on the ground).

A day after taking photos of these five items and emailing them to your boss, you get a voicemail from your boss asking you to meet her and the lab director the following week to present a plan to identify and dispose of these items and any contaminated soil adjacent to the shed.

Your Task: To ultimately dispose of these five items, describe (for each) how you would determine the physical, chemical, or radiological properties of the items in sufficient detail to assess their hazard level (toxicity, etc.) so that they can be accepted by a licensed disposal facility.

Note: You should be able to identify specific methods (chemical analysis, survey meters/instrumentation, monitoring devices, etc.). Provide URL links to commercial vendors that can provide testing, analysis, and instrumentation in the above identification.

Your response should be in APA format including a title page and a reference page. An abstract is not required for this assignment. The body of your paper (not including title or reference page) should be approximately 2-3 pages.

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Running head: FORUM QUESTION

Managing Special Hazards
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Managing Special Hazards
The hazardous waste contains a potential or substantial threats to the environment and
public health. Such waste can be available in a different physical state such as solids, liquids, or
gaseous. Based on the toxicity, corrosivity, reactivity, and ignitability traits, hazardous wastes are
special types of wastes as it means they cannot be disposed off as we do with our everyday byproducts that we dispose of using common means (Muralikrishna & Manickam, 2017). This paper
will be addressing how to ultimately dispose of Asbestos (friable), “Portable Gauge, Cesin-137”,
“Paint Chips – Pb.", “PCB Transformers” and “ Pesticides - ???? unknown”.
Asbestos (friable),
Friable is a term used to refer to asbestos that contains materials that are more likely or
easily releasable into the airborne environment at a measurable level when distributed and they
basically pose a greater risk to health. These materials when dry can easily be reduced to a powder
by hand. To determine the physical, chemical, or radiological properties of asbestos, two EPA
(Environmental Protection Agency) approved methods of analysis can be used, that is TEM
(Transmission Electron Microscopy) and PLM (Polarized Light Microscopy. Polarized light
microscopy can be utilized in testing the optical properties of “Asbestos (friable) – Insulation
sample as well as providing both the asbestos type as there are many types and the estimated
percentages in the sample. The transmission electron microscopy can be used to determine the
concentratio...


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