Field Services

Field Services

Using our highly trained staff SDS can provide a wide variety of environmental field services tailored to a customer’s needs. Safety is our priority, and we strive to continue our impeccable safety standards for all of our operations performed on your site.

Chemical Relocation

Specialty Disposal Services, Inc. (SDS) provides professional and comprehensive intrastate and interstate chemical relocations. Our team will handle all of the packing and ensure safe transportation of laboratory chemicals, reagents, and solutions. Our experience ranges from one-day moves within your facility to larger, multiple-day and phased moves. We will safely segregate, package, transport, and unpack your chemicals at its final destination.

For the chemicals left behind our trained technicians will properly prepare the material for waste disposal at one of our disposal facilities.

Emergency Response

SDS’s emergency response team is available 24/7/365.

They provide guidance to our customers in identifying, evaluating, and controlling Hazmat and non-hazardous situations.

Our RCRA/OSHA trained technicians can handle a wide spectrum of projects with the mindset to contain a spill within the first few hours to minimize extensive remediation.

Emergency response team can be reached at 973-402-9246

Lab Packing

Our highly trained lab pack technicians are familiar with handling chemicals and most importantly, respect the potential reactive properties that exist in chemical compounds. It is with the utmost commitment to safety that our technicians keep in mind the proper handling of chemicals when lab packing.

Specific SDS lab packing services include the following:

  • Identification of unknown chemicals utilizing on-site characterization testing
  • Proper segregation of chemicals according to RCRA hazard classification
  • Proper packaging and labeling of chemicals according to Dot regulations and disposal site requirements
  • Remote opening of potentially reactive chemicals
  • Stabilization on-site of potentially reactive lab packs
  • Proper completion of all manifests, packing slips, and associated documentation
  • Chemical moves and relocations including temperature sensitive items

On-site Waste Management

For companies seeking environmentally trained employees to help with their environmental compliance needs, using SDS for their on-site waste management is the answer. We offer a wide variety of on-site waste management programs. From the daily collection of waste materials to the completion of annual waste generator reports, we can provide complete on-site waste handling and management programs tailored to your needs.

On site waste management services include the following:

  • Hazardous waste collection
  • Waste segregation
  • Compatible waste consolidation
  • Laboratory chemical packaging (Lab packs)
  • Completion of manifests, packing slips and associated documentation
  • Labeling, placarding, and shipping waste according to DOT requirements
  • Completion of waste profiles
  • Annual waste generator reports
  • Arranging hazardous, medical, and non-hazardous waste disposal

Site Remediation

We provide a full array of remediation services for our clients—including but not limited to:

  • Tank excavations
  • Tank cleaning
  • Soil excavation
  • Decontamination projects
  • Emergency response services

Our trained teams can provide site specific plans for any project, which can include:

  • Creating scope of work
  • Full management of cleanup projects
  • Analysis/approvals for waste generated
  • All logistical needs to properly transport and dispose of waste

Training

Proper training is crucial for anyone involved in the environmental waste field. Companies that do not properly train their personnel could contribute to higher OSHA reporting and emergency response situations. Our training instructors stay current to any changes in rules and regulations to the environmental waste industry.

We offer multiple on-site training courses, such as:

  • DOT HM-181
  • Hazwoper 80 hour training
  • Hazwoper refresher
  • Title 40 RCRA (Resource Conservation Recovery Act)
  • Hazard communication-right to know
  • Asbestos training
  • Evacuation/emergency planning
  • First Aid/CPR
  • Forklift operator

To learn more, contact us today.