r/hazmat • u/Particular-Local-784 • Jun 05 '25

Training/Tactics/Education Training for hazardous waste pickup (pharmaceuticals)

I work at a pharma manufacturer, who is registered with rcra as a small waste generator. We have a new facility opened, myself and a couple others are slated to handle the hazardous waste cage and pickup, probably happening twice a year. It’s not much.

What training would we need to get certified for this? Requirements as I look around on DoT and RCRA are not very clear.

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u/Darkfire66 Jun 05 '25

Are you staying on campus or transporting over the road?

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u/Particular-Local-784 Jun 05 '25

I’d just be in the facility, monitoring the inventory and signing off for it when the waste hauler comes for pickup

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u/Darkfire66 Jun 05 '25

Who is your environmental safety and health manager? They should have the ability to tell you what trainings are required to be compliant with State local and Federal laws.

Feeling that you may have something like a pollution prevention assistance program available from your County health department where they can give you some compliance information.

When I did that kind of work I was in a 40 hour HAZWOPER and a 49 CFR manifest training to be able to sign shipping papers.

If I recall correctly the bare minimum was an 8 hour HAZWOPER to be able to operate a satellite accumulation area.

Just be aware that you can't transport stuff over public roadways. My company spent 7 million dollars building a state-of-the-art facility to consolidate hazmat loading from three major sites not realizing that it was illegal to drive it over the road to get there. pretty goofy.

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u/Particular-Local-784 Jun 06 '25

Honestly, the team at the other facility is uncommunicative to the point of needing to go to management to make them talk, I’m trying to determine the requirements for my team independently at this point.

I will look into hazwoper requirements though, thanks 😊

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u/goodairquality Jun 06 '25

Hazwoper, RCRA certs are the big ones. Both are mind numbing and are genuinely painful to experience. But good info none the less

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u/Flying_Conch Jun 06 '25

HAZWOPER 40h + RCRA 8hr. Have fun. I don't know if you are sub part p, but you might want to look that up (makes things easier). I'm sure you're apprised of your profiles but keep that in mind incase you come across haz pharm from returns, or trial conclusions.