1910.120 - Hazardous Waste & Emergency Response

1910.119 - PSM Standard

     Incident Investigation (2 day)..............$250/student

1910.146 - Permit Required Confined Spaces

Petrochemical Hazards Training School

Jobs and The Environment

Corporate Power and The American Dream

1910.120 - Hazardous Waste and Emergency Response
 
Hazardous Waste Training:
 
24-MR RCRA awareness training
This course covers the requirements of OSHA 29 CFR
1910.120 for training needs of workers at Treatment,
Storage and Disposal (TSD) facilities permitted under the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Topics
covered include recognition, evaluation and control of
hazards; and evaluation of emergency response plans.    
 
8-HR Refresher training 
This course satisfies the requirement that workers
trained for work at a RCRA site annually receive 8 hours
of training which generally covers selected topics of the
24-hour training in a limited manner.  
 
8-HR Annual Awareness training
This course provides a general awareness of hazards at 
the work site. Topics include choices of hazard 
recognition, evaluation, control and evaluation of 
Emergency Response plans. 
 
Emergency Response Training:
 
This training is for workers who are likely to be the
first to witness or discover a hazardous materials
release and who are expected to respond to chemical
emergencies defensively. These "emergency responders" are
identified in 29 CFR 1910. 120 as '"first responders. 
 
8-HR Awareness Level training 
This course meets the 1910.120 requirements of section
(q),6,i, First responder awareness level. The training
deals with the "first responders" role and
responsibilities in an emergency chemical release. Topics
covered are hazard identification, recognition and
control. Other topics include understanding one's role in
an emergency and using the Department of Transportation
(DOT) emergency response guidebook as well as the
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) hazards
rating system. 
 
24-MR Awareness Operations Level 
This course meets the 1910.120 requirements of section
(q),6,ii, First responder operations level. This course
covers the topics listed in the 8-hour awareness training
as well as the selection and use of proper personal
protective equipment, control and containment procedures
and decontamination procedures through the use of
hands-on sessions and field activities. 
 
CERCLA (clean-up) Training: 
40-MR Training * 
In association with university-based trainers and staff,
we provide training predominately for workers who are are
working at a designated controlled hazardous waste site
and are required to be trained at this level to "break
ground" or interrupt the controlled nature of the site.
This training includes: hazard recognition, evaluation,
control and handling, the use of chemical protective
clothing, respirators, decontamination practices and
procedures, site safety plans and rights and
responsibilities under the law. This training is hands-on
and field simulated. 
* This does not include supervisors' training, which
requires an additional eight hours off-site training. 
 
Introduction to PSM: 
8-HR Intro Training 
This course gives the student a working knowledge of
1910.119 and its various sections. It has special
sections devoted to mechanical integrity, hazard analysis
and incident investigation. The curriculum outlines how
to construct a plan for putting into place a worksite
site-specific PSM program which is effective and
preventive in nature. The course is an 8-hour curriculum
at a cost of $125 per student. 
 
Incident Investigation 
This training takes two to three days and has been
designed for both worker safety representatives and joint
health and safety committees in the petrochemical
industry. The primary sections of the training include:
understanding safety systems; investigation
preplanning; collecting investigation information;
understanding the differences between immediate and root
causes, and logic tree diagraming. 
 
Confined Space: 
4-HR Training 
We have added confined spaces to our curriculum. It
presents a review of 1910.146, PERMIT REQUIRED CONFINED
SPACES. It reviews the multiple hazards of confined
spaces, including chemical hazards, electrical hazards,
pumps and other machines. It also addresses engulfment
hazards, falling objects, temperature extremes and
noise. In addition, the session focuses on an
understanding of a good permit system and a permit
checklist. The curriculum discusses the following
OSHA-required roles: 1) Entry Supervisor; 2) Entrant; 3)
Attendant; and 4) Rescue Services. We discuss roles and
the requirements of each. The confined space training is
approximately four hours; and the cost of this new
curriculum is $100 per student. 
 
Petrochemical Hazards Training School 
40-HR Training 
A five-day course in identification and control of
hazards in the petrochemical industry. This School is
offered on a limited basis with a restriction on
participants. Please call the Health & Safety Director
for course details, schedule and available enrollment.  
 
Jobs and The Environment 
This day long program brings workers and environmental
justice activist together to discuss both the job and the
environmental crisis. The program reviews what is
happening to workers jobs in our economy. The program
sensitizes community activist to the realities of the job
market and it sensitizes workers in toxic reality
facilities to environmental issues which are faced by the
community and by society. The participants are introduced
to alternative solutions to the job and the environmental
crisis and are asked also to develop their own. 
 
Corporate Power and the American Dream 
This day long program focuses on the growing
concentration of corporate power in  American society and
what it is doing to the lives of working people and their 
families. It reviews the impact of rising corporate power
on unionization and jobs.  It also tracks the rise of
wealth of the richest 1% of the US society and evaluates 
the corporate game plan for our economy. In addition it
challenges the participants  to review alternatives
pro-worker economic policies and to develop their own.