Hazardous Waste
Hazardous Waste Academic Training is carried out within the Environmental
and Occupational Health Sciences Division in the University of Illinois
School of Public Health as a subspecialty of the industrial hygiene program.
A concentration in hazardous waste management requires courses in ground
water contamination, hazardous materials management and participation
in the 40-hour General Site Worker course in addition to the general
industrial hygiene program course work requirements. The goals of this
program are: (1) to develop hazardous waste practitioners with as much
practical experience as possible within the limits of an academic environment;
and (2) to provide research opportunities in environmental and occupational
health. To foster practical experience as well as research activity,
all trainees participate in at least one extended field test. This field
experience has included projects at steel plants, railroad repair shops,
petroleum refineries, printing plants, and metal working and electronic
component facilities. By requiring participation in occupational medicine
clinics, hazardous waste trainees gain an understanding of the interdisciplinary
nature of problem solving in occupational/environmental health.
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