Oil Spill Clean Up Response 4: Waste Management

Oil Spill Clean-up Response: Waste Management is part of a five part oil spill clean up training series, created with the assistance of the US Coast Guard. It provides important health and safety information for oil spill clean-up workers; and provides information consistent with OSHA and USCG regulations. Here, workers learn how to handle recovered oil and other hazardous wastes resulting form the oil spill clean-up effort. The program identifies waste management priorities: eliminating the waste, reducing the amount of waste, recycling the waste, treating the waste, and disposing of the waste. Other topics include recycling standards for waste oil, temporary storage options for bulk oil, oil/water separation, vacuum trucks, how to extract emulsions, and disposal and reclamation procedures.

Video-On-Demand (VOD): Classroom full-screen presentation or individual play.

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Emergency oil spill responders who are called upon to control and clean up oil spills.

• Introduction
• Waste Management Priorities
• Recovered Oil
• Temporary Bulk Storage
• Recycling Recovered Oil
• Treatment of Waste Oil
• Disposal of Waste Oil
• Summary

• Handle recovered oil and other hazardous wastes.
• Prioritize waste management tasks.
• Ensure waste oil meets recycling standards.
• Identify temporary storage options for bulk oil.
• Understand oil/water separation.
• Properly utilize vacuum trucks.
• Know how to extract emulsions.
• Be aware of proper disposal and reclamation techniques.