Instructions
Safety and Health Plan
At a Superfund site, it is planned that buried drums containing a volatile
waste solvent will be excavated and sent to a hazardous waste disposal site.
The drums are known to have leaked and samples of the surrounding soils
confirm that the soil and groundwater are contaminated with the solvent.
After the drums are extracted and sent for disposition to a hazardous waste
treatment facility, environmental engineers install a soil vapor extraction
system to strip out the spilled solvent.
Recall the Unit IV Lesson on the impact of hazardous waste on the natural
environment and your Unit IV PowerPoint assignment addressing a hazardous
waste scenario to the community. Also, refer to the Unit V Lesson on methods
for mitigating the environmental impact of hazardous waste and the Unit V
Essay assignment. The need to address how hazardous waste affects the
environment and human health is paramount as you formulate a safety and
health plan.
In this assignment, develop a safety program that includes a safety and
health plan that can be given to a site project team to implement. Refer to
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration documents in the Unit VII
Lesson Suggested Reading as a guide in formulating your safety and health
plan. The safety and health plan should cover the excavation and loading of
the leaking drums onto a truck, the setup of a soil vapor extraction system,
and the operation of the extraction system for an estimated 15 years. You
should address how to mitigate the exposure to employees and visitors and
protect human health from the adverse impacts of this hazardous waste. Also,
develop ways to protect the environment and local community from the
hazardous waste to minimize release into the environment.
Your safety and health plan must be a minimum of four pages. The title and
reference pages do not count toward the total page requirement.
You must include an introduction to your health and safety plan to address
the scope for this assignment. Additionally, you should include at least two
academic or government resources, preferably from the CSU Online Library
and/or sources such as from Occupational Safety and Health Administration or
Environmental Protection Agency, besides your textbook to support your
assignment. Please ensure that all sources, including your textbook, are cited
and referenced using correct APA-style formatting.
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