Summer's gone and we are now counting the days down to Christmas! The team here at Wastesafe have been busy, working hard to provide our customers, both existing and new, with support and guidance on recent legislative changes whilst continuing to provide flexible, tailored solutions to the recycling and disposal of their hazardous waste.

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This second release of our newsletter brings you up to date with many of the exciting things happening within Wastesafe since our last issue. We hope you enjoy reading it.

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Our new site not only looks different with a more modern and fresher look but is much more user friendly and easier to navigate. The addition of case studies and testimonials, we hope, provides a little more background information on the wide range of services we offer and the downloads section provides all our latest news and legislative documents in downloadable format for your Duty of Care and Audit purposes. You can now also keep up to date with us on our news and blog pages – or why not 'follow us' on Facebook.

Wastesafe are delighted to announce the introduction of a range of specifically tailored new services in 2011. The first to be launched is:

Chemical Hazard Awareness Training

Do your staff know enough about the chemicals they work with? Wastesafe offer a straightforward and adaptable onsite training program to ensure your staffhave:

• An understanding of what chemicals are, and their hazards
• The ability to use the information that accompanies chemicals e.g. placards, labels and material safety data sheets (MSDS)
• The knowledge to use the available information to assess and minimise the risks associated with a chemical
• The ability to sasses safety aspects during a chemical incident including personal protective equipment (PPE)

Please contact us for more information on this or any of our other services.

Commercial Chemist at Wastesafe, Hayley Hurdle, is training to run the 2011 Virgin London Marathon on April 17. As a diabetic of 16 years, she will be running for the Charity Diabetes UK, pledging to raise £1900 for this worthy cause.

The marathon efforts of the runners with type 1 diabetes carry extra difficulties because of the need to ensure that their blood glucose levels remain stable throughout training and the race itself. Without carefully monitoring food and insulin intake, people with type 1 diabetes run the risk of hypoglycaemia (dangerously low blood glucose level) or hyperglycaemia (high blood glucose level), which of increases the likelihood of developing long-term complications.

"Running is something that doesn't come easy to me, but with regular training, I'm determined to complete the race in less than 5 hours" said Hayley.

Hayley will also be running the Reading Half Marathon on Sunday 20th March in preparation for the big day.

You can sponsor Hayley via her Just Giving webpage: www.justgiving.com/hurdlegoeslong

Welcome to the first edition of Wastesafe News – we plan to produce this on a regular basis to keep you informed about what we're doing, our services, updates and new developments relating to legislation and how this could affect business and perhaps even the occasional survey or competition on what our readers think.

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ADR 2011 is now available, with a number of changes from the ADR 2009 addition. These include:

• Employees engaged in transport operations are to receive job-specific training before assuming responsibilities.
• A new responsible body has been included in the ADR in the form of the unloader.
• Changes to the classification model, particularly class 9, 'environmentally hazardous substances'.
• Numerous UN numbers have also been included in the new ADR.
• A new section has been added for solutions and mixtures.
• Amendment of the instructions in writing.
• New marking for dangerous goods packed in limited quantities, although the previously applicable 'LTD QTY' mark may continue to be carried until the end of the transition period on 30 June 2015.

If you believe that any of the changes affect your company and its current operations, please contact us for further information.

Wastesafe were appointed by Solace Building Consultancy to assist with the clearance and refurbishment of a former commercial laundry in Oxfordshire. The extensive site was spread over two large warehouses and required reinstatement to its original condition.

The previous tenants had left behind a large quantity of hazardous chemicals comprising of corrosive cleaning agents, various lubricating oils and greases, flammable paints, WEEE, fire extinguishers and full chemical dosing tanks. There were also numerous contaminated chemical storage tanks, a large volume of contaminated pipework and bunded areas, all requiring specialist industrial cleaning.

Case Study: Laundry Clean Up

Through Civic Amenity Centres,local authorities provide a service whereby the general public can dispose of all their unwanted 'hazardous wastes' into on-site 'Chembanks' (Chemical Storage Containers). Often in unlabelled packaging, the range of wastes handled is extremely diverse!

Wastesafe's technical expertise in handling such a wide range of household waste chemicals provides local authorities with a comprehensive service, ensuring dangerous wastes are safely handled, identified and packaged in accordance with current legislation.

Case Study: Civic Amenity

It was the last thing anyone expected to find when Wastesafe were asked by the National Trust to clear aremote site which had no vehicular access except via a neighbouring field.

The previously undiscovered World War II bunker was unearthed during the removal of hazardous materials from the fire affected site including asbestos, oils, WEEE, LPG gas cylinders, metal, and other general waste.

Case Study: Site Clearance