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Difficulty for Workers at Hazardous Sites

Difficulties and hazardous sites are two sides of one coin. Hazard means danger and the very name indicates the meaning vividly. At hazardous sites, the most dangerous works are done where workers have to expose to the hazardous materials, chemicals, wastes and equipment where there are possible chances of accidents, injuries and even death. Workers at hazardous site face difficulty at every moment. That is why, HAZWOPER (Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response), under OSHA has come out to provide effective training to the workers who work at hazardous site. The specific areas that are taken by HAZWOPER for conducting hazardous waste operations are: The site that does not have control on hazardous wastes, clean-up operations are conducted there. This is required by the Government (Federal or local state) and the sites that are included in EPA’s National Priority List and State Priority List. Emergency Response Operations are conducted in the sites that threaten releasing t