Identifying and managing hazardous waste in your business (including, for instance, your fluorescent tubes and old computers).
Understanding the new regulations, correctly completing consignment notes and maintaining your compliance.
This half-day course will help all companies deal with the new Hazardous Waste Regulations. You will discover the objectives of the Regulations and how they work in practice. Specifically, you will be instructed on accurate classification of your Hazardous Waste, completing the new consignment notes, ensuring that you maintain compliance and identifying potential cost savings from better practice.
Understanding how to use the European Waste Catalogue to identify waste types will help you to become proficient in hazardous waste management within your organisation and comply with new requirements for site registration with the Environment Agency. Advice on monitoring and recording of hazardous waste enables your organisation to accurately describe any hazardous waste being produced and collected from your site.
Having an insight into the drivers behind this growing area of legislation will also help you to reduce your waste quantity and costs.
Topics covered
Explanation of the List of Waste Regulations
Explanation of the Hazardous Waste Regulations
Identification of Waste Codes
Completing consignment notes
Forthcoming waste legislation
Target audience:
Anybody dealing with waste or in a position to manage waste out of the system. Failure to comply with the Hazardous Waste Regulations can lead to heavy fines and liabilities, both at company and director level. Whoever would be held responsible for a breach of the Regulations should attend this course, from directors to those sorting and handling the waste itself.