Managing Toxics Syllabus
From ENVS 295: UVM as an Eco Campus
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Course Structure and Expectations
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Technical Content
- Chemical Hazards
- Government Regulations
- Discussing Risk
- Management Techniques
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Service Learning
- Reflections
- Preparing wikipedia or EOE articles
- Interviews, oral history
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Describing Chemical Hazards
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Physical Hazards
- Flammability: flashpoint, LEL
- Corrosivity: pH
- Reactivity: explosions
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Health Hazards
- Timing: acute and chronic
- Effects: local and systemic
- Reversible and irreversible
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Laws and Regulations
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Legal Structure
- RCRA
- SARA Title III
- TSCA
- Process Safety
- Superfund
- OSHA
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Communication
- Risk Communication
- Hazard Communication
- Regulation
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Control
- Compliance vs. conformance
- Fines and violations
- Auditing
- Environmental Management Systems
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Management Methods
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Current Wastes
- captive TSD
- Household Hazardous Waste
- Commercial Haz Waste Disposal
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Historical Wastes
- HAZWOPER
- brownfields and Superfund
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Optional Field Trips
- ESF
- Centennial field
- CSWD depot
- EnPro
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Service Project
UVM audit: Lab safety Universal wastes UST Brownfield lay summary
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Historic Sites to Consider
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International Sites
- Love Canal
- Times Beach
- Valley of the Drums
- China benzene leak
- Bhopal
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Vermont sites
- Burlington landfill
- Pine Street
- Moran Plant
