Hazardous Waste Labels

A Satellite Accumulation Area (SAA) is an EHS approved location in your laboratory or work space utilized for storing hazardous waste. The SAA must be located at or near the point of generation, remain under the control of the operator of the process generating waste, maintain an emergency management plan and have an SAA sign posted. A generator is allowed to accumulate as much as 55 gallons of non-acute hazardous waste and/or one-quart liquid or 1 Kg (2.2 lbs.) of solid acute hazardous waste in the SAA.

An Acute Hazardous waste is listed on the EPA’s P-list waste as well as six F-list wastes, F020, F021, F022, F023, F026 and F027.

All containers within an EHS-approved SAA MUST be marked by a UA hazardous waste label identifying:

• The contents of the containers – full chemical names ONLY. No chemical symbols or molecular formulae.
• The primary hazard (corrosive, oxidizer, etc.)
• The approximate percentages of each component totaling 100%.