Managing Toxics Syllabus

From ENVS 295: UVM as an Eco Campus

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Contents

Course Structure and Expectations

Technical Content

  • Chemical Hazards
  • Government Regulations
  • Discussing Risk
  • Management Techniques

Service Learning

  • Reflections
  • Preparing wikipedia or EOE articles
  • Interviews, oral history

Describing Chemical Hazards

Physical Hazards

  • Flammability: flashpoint, LEL
  • Corrosivity: pH
  • Reactivity: explosions

Health Hazards

  • Timing: acute and chronic
  • Effects: local and systemic
  • Reversible and irreversible

Laws and Regulations

Legal Structure

  • RCRA
  • SARA Title III
  • TSCA
  • Process Safety
  • Superfund
  • OSHA

Communication

  • Risk Communication
  • Hazard Communication
  • Regulation

Control

  • Compliance vs. conformance
  • Fines and violations
  • Auditing
  • Environmental Management Systems

Management Methods

Current Wastes

  • captive TSD
  • Household Hazardous Waste
  • Commercial Haz Waste Disposal

Historical Wastes

  • HAZWOPER
  • brownfields and Superfund

Optional Field Trips

  • ESF
  • Centennial field
  • CSWD depot
  • EnPro

Service Project

UVM audit: Lab safety Universal wastes UST Brownfield lay summary

Historic Sites to Consider

International Sites

  • Love Canal
  • Times Beach
  • Valley of the Drums
  • China benzene leak
  • Bhopal

Vermont sites

  • Burlington landfill
  • Pine Street
  • Moran Plant