[RKDinOKC]

That hazmat chemicals in the workplace regulation is nerts.

In our shop, basically lathes machining cast iron, and steel some using coolants some not, but most leak hydraulics. Used floor dry for decades and kept the shop nice and clean. Along came hazmat and the waste stream had to be processed. Barrels of liquid cost less than barrels of solids so they switched from using floor dry to mopping, with water. cast iron, mild steel, hydraulic fluids, do any of these sound like they get along with water? The shop was filthy nasty dirty in weeks and has only gotten worse.

I talked to the Hazmat consultant, (a college friend of mine) the processes changed and the cost is the same per barrel for both solid and liquid waste. AND using floor dry you can effectively remove 14 times more waste. Yet they are so locked into the paperwork to support the hazmat regulation our hazmat staff have not gone back to using floor dry.