Health and Safety - Essentials Series: Toxic Substance Control Act (TCSA) Section I
Product Code: reg023 Time: 30.0 minute(s) CEUs:

Summary:

This course provides an overview of requirements of Toxic Substance Control Act, TSCA. The basic purpose of this regulation is to prevent the introduction into the US of chemicals which present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment.

Objectives:

  • Define TSCA
  • Explain the reasons Congress believed regulation was necessary
  • Describe what could be learned from this training
  • Describe the methods that the EPA uses to enforce TSCA
  • Define what constitutes a TSCA violation
  • Describe the penalties provided in the Act for violations
  • Describe the inspections conducted by EPA to check compliance
  • Define TSCA inventory and how the status of any material can be checked
  • Define premanufacture notification and how it is obtained
  • Describe US and international chemical inventory laws


Topics:

  • Enforcement and penalties
  • Inspections
  • Inventory, premanufacture notifications

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.



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