1. 40-Hour Site Worker
2. 8-Hour Refresher
3. 8-Hour Supervisor
4. 4-Hour Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)

This program is intended to meet the requirements of the introductory, general training. After you've taken this forty-hour course, you are required to keep up your training with yearly eight-hour refresher classes that we also offer.

Topics Covered:

• Federal and/or state regulations that apply
• Pertinent Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations
• Hazard recognition
• Safety practices
• Personal protective equipment (PPE), such as face masks, chemically protective suits, boots, and gloves
• Work practices
• Hazard control

When you finish the class, you will have the classroom training necessary to be considered a Hazardous Waste Site Worker. On-site training will still be needed.

You would want to take this course if you are or will be employed at a hazardous waste site and you have already received the 40-hour introductory training. Federal regulations require hazardous waste site workers receive annual refresher training. We offer four different refresher classes for flexibility.

Scenario:
In this course, we look in-depth at a specific scenario. You might take a look at hazards in the oil industry, or those hazards involved with paint and lacquer. We focus on the fact that different work sites have different hazards.

Heat Stress/Technology:
We do a hazard analysis to help you better understand problems you might encounter on the job. We focus on relevant remediation technologies and regulations on site clean-up. The program can be tailored to cover aspects of fire and explosion hazards, inappropriate behavior when donning/doffing PPE, and the stress a hot environment can put on your body.

Performance-Based:
This is an activity-based, hands-on class. We cover information collection on hazardous exposures and decision-making about air monitoring, PPE selection, and hazard assessment. We cover work practices and decontamination in the hands-on simulation.

Weapons of Mass Destruction:
We have units on Hazard recognition, Unified Command, Field Decontamination, Crime Scene Integrity, and Stress Management Awareness. Not all units are covered in a single refresher; we tailor the course by adding and subtracting the different sections to suit the needs of our trainees and their employers.

Each refresher course has the same basic objectives…

• Review experiences during the previous year
• Review basic skills and knowledge about hazardous waste site work
• Provide an opportunity to engage in learning and problem solving activities which will help to improve safety and health condition on a site
• Reinforce safe work practices
• Reinforce the role of personal protective equipment on a site
• Reinforce the significance of a site-specific safety and health plan in controlling hazards
• Meet training requirements stated in Section (e) (8) of the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard, 29 CFR 1910.120

This course is for those of you are or will be supervising employees at a hazardous waste site. In addition to the topics listed below, we'll go through an exercise where we address problems that might crop up in a real-world type of scenario.

Topics for this program include:

• Motivating workers to use safe work practices
• Investigating accidents
• Monitoring for hazardous conditions
• Site control
• Personal protective equipment
• Handling the media
• OSHA inspections
• Safety and health plans

When you finish, you will be better able to:

• Investigate accidents and deal with the media
• Synthesize information for problem-solving
• Work with safety and health plans
• Assess critical behaviors

This program is designed to assure adequate practice with appropriate personal protective equipment that may be used as part of emergency response or remediation of hazardous materials. Examples include SCBA, chemical protective clothing, Leval A dressout.