Hexavalent Chromium: Managing Exposure and Cleanup

  • Overview
  • Course Content
  • Requirements & Materials
Overview

Hexavalent Chromium: Managing Exposure and Cleanup

Course Description

This two-day course will provide you with the skills and capabilities needed to comply with the OSHA Hexavalent Chromium Standard and the resources necessary to develop a plan of action for cleanup of contaminated jobsites. You’ll receive a comprehensive review of the OSHA regulation as well as training on the health effects of exposure to hexavalent chromium and how to protect workers from the hazards of exposure. Interactive training will allow you to gain the knowledge needed to assure the effectiveness of your organization’s compliance program and to understand the requirements and responsibilities related to the cleanup of contaminated jobsites. 

Course Content

HEALTH HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH EXPOSURE TO HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM

  • Health hazards
  • Routes of entry
  • Factors affecting the occupational risk
  • Basics in the prevention of occupational poisoning

OVERVIEW OF THE HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM STANDARD (29 CFR 1910.1026)

  • Definitions of the Standard
  • Initial determination/exposure assessment
  • Methods of compliance and the hierarchy of controls
  • Respiratory protection and person protection equipment
  • Removal, storage, and disposal
  • Cleaning and replacement
  • Hygiene facilities and work practices
  • Regulated areas
  • Medical surveillance
  • Recordkeeping

EXPOSURE MONITORING STRATEGIES FOR HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM

  • Air sampling strategies
  • Wipe sampling strategies

CLEANUP OF HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM CONTAMINATED WORKSITES 

  • Strategies for cleanup for jobsites
  • Protecting personnel working at jobsites
  • Ground and water surveillance and remediation
  • Disposal
  • Workshop and practicum
Requirements & Materials

Materials

Provided

  • A notebook with course materials and supplemental information

Session Details

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for employers and employees responsible for the management of programs and cleanup related to hexavalent chromium. 

What You Will Learn

  • The primary routes of entry for hexavalent chromium from occupational exposure
  • Health effects associated with exposure to hexavalent chromium
  • Compliance strategies for the Hexavalent Chromium Standard
  • Methods to perform an effective cleanup of contaminated jobsites
  • Air and surface sampling strategies for continued surveillance of exposure

How You Will Benefit

  • Understand the requirements of the OSHA Hexavalent Chromium Standard.
  • Identify the sources of potential exposure to hexavalent chromium and how it may potentially adversely affect the body.
  • Learn strategies to perform cleanup following the identification of a contaminated jobsite.
  • Develop sampling strategies to perform ongoing surveillance of employee exposure.
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- Rodrigues "Rocky" Smith
Safety Manager

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