OHIO UNIVERSITY

College of Health and Human Services School of Health Sciences

 

IH 420/520:Hazardous Materials Management and Control

Offered in Spring

Required Text:

Handbook on Hazardous Materials Management, 5th edition, by Carson and Cox. Institute of Hazardous Materials Management. Order direct: 301-984-8969, or write: % Sonya, Institute of hazardous Materials Management, 11900 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852.

Course Description: This class will familiarize the student with the basic principles of Hazardous Materials (HM) management and control. These topics will be addressed both in the traditional sense of managing processes that involve the use of HM, and in the more recent sense of emergency response utilizing state-of-the-art industrial hygiene controls and practices.

Course Objectives: Introduce pertinent protocols in place in the U.S. for the procurement, shipment, storage, use and disposal of HM. Explore specific practices for the prudent management of HM in routine operations, and establish a basis for sound decision making in the event of unexpected spills, releases, or losses of control of HM. Develop in the student core competencies in relation to regulations or laws, including IATA, DOT, USEPA, OSHA, and State of Ohio.

Course Format: Lectures, field trips when feasible or pertinent

Attendance: Each student is expected to attend class and will be held responsible for material content as presented in class, including syllabus changes and arrangements made by the instructor in class. Attendance will be recorded, and may be used in certain grading instances to either increase or decrease a student's earned letter grade when an appropriate grade cannot otherwise be easily determined.

Grading and testing: Grades will be assigned per catalog (4 point scale). There will be two in-term exams, in addition to a requirement to complete an in-term paper. The two in-terms will each be worth 40% of the course grade, with the remaining 20% allocated to satisfactory completion of the term paper. No make-up exams will be offered.

NOTE: The term paper will be due by the end of the seventh (7th) week of class.

In-term paper topics may include any of the following. The student is encouraged to pursue any topic in which he/she has a keen interest, so long as the topic is germane to the focus of the class.

·        Models of incident command organization

·        Air transport HM regulations for biohazards

·        Issues in HM shipping by public roads

·        HM in the new millennium, with topics s.a.

·        identification methodology,

·        new hazards,

·        terrorism,

·        materials changes in products, others

·        Emergency response databases and resources

·        Evergreen practices in the HM operation

·        Personal protective clothing at RR disasters

·        Near term regulations important to HM

·        Asbestos management options

·        Gas and vapor sampling instruments at waste sites

·        Gas and vapor sampling under emergency conditions

·        Heat and cold stress in relation to PPE use

·        Future necessary regulatory agendas