STORAGE/DISPOSAL > Details

The Health & Safety Executive have produced a number of codes of practice for the safe storage and segregation of hazardous chemicals. Although primarily for Chemical Industries, best practice can be gleamed. Click on the link below for further details:

HSE - Segregation of Hazardous Materials

The Hazardous Waste Regulations also detail information on storage and consignment notes, register of premises and documentation needed before the disposal of hazardous wastes. Click here for further details.

In addition, the Duty of Care should still be adhered to when disposing of waste. This places an emphasis on:

You and/or your business have a ‘duty’ to take all reasonable measures to:

1. Prevent anyone keeping, depositing, disposing of or recovering your ‘controlled waste’ without a waste management licence or an exemption from the need for a licence. Ensure that their waste management licence has not been suspended or partially revoked and that they are not in breach of the conditions of that licence or exemption.
2. Stop materials escaping from your control or the control of anyone else by packaging it appropriately and robustly.
3. Ensure that waste is only transferred to an authorised person. Make sure that a person or business is authorised to deal with your particular type of waste.
4. Ensure that the waste being transferred is accompanied by a written description that will enable anyone receiving it to dispose of it or handle it in accordance with his or her own Duty of Care.