Florida Hazmat Training and Florida Hazwoper Certification Package Descriptions:
40 Hour HAZWOPER Training
This course is specifically designed for workers who are involved in clean-up operations, voluntary clean-up operations, emergency response operations, and storage, disposal, or treatment of hazardous substances or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. This course covers topics included in 29 CFR 1910.120. Please note that hands-on training is not required for the 40 hour Hazwoper course; although hands-on is the preferred training method by OSHA. To be in compliance with OSHA regulations, the employee must complete 3 days of hands-on training offered by the employer
Duration: 32 Hours On-Line, 8-hours classroom training
Completion Requirements: Students will be allowed to proceed at their own pace in this interactive, online training program. Students must complete a total of 32 hours of online training and 8 hours in person at a Compliance Solutions training course (see the last page of this outline for tentative dates and locations). After the practical training is complete, students will be required to pass a final exam with a test score of 70% or better.
Training Objective: The purpose of this course is to ensure awareness and promote safety among employees who may be exposed to chemical hazards in the work-site. The objective is to ensure that employees operate in the safest possible manner in situations where contact with potentially hazardous materials is likely.
This course fulfills your requirements for certification under 29 CFR, Part 1910.120 (e), or other applicable state regulations for certification to the 24-hour Occasional Site Worker level.
Hazwoper 24 Hour (Occasional Site Worker)-
This course is for hazardous waste occasional site workers which require that the worker receives a minimum of 24 hours of instruction off the site, and a minimum of one day actual field experience under the direct supervision of a trained experienced supervisor. Our course meets the 24 hours of instruction off the site, and we recommend as per industry standard that the student receives the additional day of field experience from their employer or potential employer along with a proper medical evaluation. According to the 29 CFR 1910.120 (e)(3)(ii); this course is intended for workers on site only occasionally for a specific limited task such as, but not limited to, ground water monitoring, land surveying, or geophysical surveying and who are unlikely to be exposed over permissible exposure limits and published exposure limits.
(In order to maintain your initial Hazwoper 24 Hour (Occasional Site Worker) Certifications, 8 Hours of Annual Refresher Training is required)
HAZWOPER 24 Hour is required for employees visiting an Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Operation mandated by the Government.
This course covers broad issues pertaining to the hazard recognition at work sites. OSHA has developed the HAZWOPER program to protect the workers working at hazardous sites and devised extensive regulations to ensure their safety and health. This course, while identifying different types of hazards, also suggests possible precautions and protective measures to reduce or eliminate hazards at the work place.
Note: Workers must have 24 hours of initial training and one day of supervised field experience before they are allowed to enter the site. **The online course meets the standard requirement of 24hrs of initial training. The one day field experience under a trained, experienced supervisor is the responsibility of the student's employer or potential employer
This course covers broad issues pertaining to the hazard recognition at work sites. OSHA has developed the HAZWOPER program to protect the workers working at hazardous sites and devised extensive regulations to ensure their safety and health. This course, while identifying different types of hazards, also suggests possible precautions and protective measures to reduce or eliminate hazards at the work place.
40 Hour HAZWOPER+OSHA 10 Hour Construction Industry Course - Package 1: No longer available
This package is part of our Oil Spill Clean Up series designed to provide personnel with the relevant training and certifications that may be needed to participate in the clean up efforts. This package consists of the 40 Hour HAZWOPER Course and the 10 Hour Construction Industry Outreach Course.
40 Hour HAZWOPER: This course covers broad issues pertaining to the hazard recognition at work sites. OSHA has developed the HAZWOPER program to protect the workers working at hazardous sites and devised extensive regulations to ensure their safety and health. This course, while identifying different types of hazards, also suggests possible precautions and protective measures to reduce or eliminate hazards at the work place.
HAZWOPER 40 Hour is required for employees working on a project consisting of Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Operation mandated by the Government. This course is specifically designed for workers who are involved in clean-up operations, voluntary clean-up operations, emergency response operations, and storage, disposal, or treatment of hazardous substances or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Topics include protection against hazardous chemicals, elimination of hazardous chemicals, safety of workers and the environment and OSHA regulations. This course covers topics included in 29 CFR 1910.120.
Note: Workers must have 40 hrs of initial training before they may enter the site and at least three days of actual field experience under a trained, seasoned supervisor. **The online course meets the standard requirement of 40 hrs of initial training. The three days field experience under a trained, experienced supervisor is the responsibility of the student employer or potential employer.
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The 10-hour Construction Industry Outreach Training Program is intended to provide entry level construction workers general awareness on recognizing and preventing hazards on a construction site. OSHA recommends Outreach Training Program courses as an orientation to occupational safety and health for workers covered by OSHA 29 CFR 1926. Workers must receive additional training, when required by OSHA standards, on the specific hazards of the job. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive an OSHA 10-Hour Construction Outreach DOL course completion card within 4-8 weeks.
40 Hour HAZWOPER + OSHA 10 Hour General Industry Outreach Course -Package 2 No longer available
Package Description: This package is part of our Oil Spill Clean Up series designed to provide personnel with the relevant training and certifications that may be needed to participate in the cleanup efforts. This package consists of the 40 Hour HAZWOPER Course and the 10 Hour General Industry Outreach Course. Students will receive a certificate of completion for both the 40 Hour Hazwoper Course and the 10 Hour General Industry Outreach Course. Students will also receive a Department of Labor card within 4-8 weeks for successful completion of the 10 Hour General Industry Outreach Course
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OSHA - 10 Hour General Industry Outreach Training Program
10-Hour G.I. Course description: U.S. OSHA requires four specific topics be included in every 10-Hr. program, with an additional six hours of elective topics. The four required topics are, (one hour each):
1.Introduction to the OSH Act, OSHA, Enforcement, and Recordkeeping
2.Walking -Working Surfaces,
3.Means of Egress, Emergency Action Plans and Fire Protection Plans,
4.Electrical Safety.
The six elective topics included in this program (running one-half hour to one and one-half hours in length each) are:
1.Hazardous Materials,
2.Personal Protective Equipment,
3.Machinery and Machine Guarding,
4.Safety & Health Programs,
5.Hazard Communication
6.Hazardous Substances and Industrial Hygiene
This package is part of our Oil Spill Clean Up series designed to provide personnel with the relevant training and certifications that may be needed to participate in the clean\up efforts. This package consists of the 40 Hour HAZWOPER Course and The Clean Water Act course.
40 Hour HAZWOPER: This course covers broad issues pertaining to the hazard recognition at work sites. OSHA has developed the HAZWOPER program to protect the workers working at hazardous sites and devised extensive regulations to ensure their safety and health. This course, while identifying different types of hazards, also suggests possible precautions and protective measures to reduce or eliminate hazards at the work place.
HAZWOPER 40 Hour is required for employees working on a project consisting of Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Operation mandated by the Government.
This course is specifically designed for workers who are involved in clean-up operations, voluntary clean-up operations, emergency response operations, and storage, disposal, or treatment of hazardous substances or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Topics include protection against hazardous chemicals, elimination of hazardous chemicals, safety of workers and the environment and OSHA regulations. This course covers topics included in 29 CFR 1910.120.
Note: Workers must have 40 hrs of initial training before they may enter the site and at least three days of actual field experience under a trained, seasoned supervisor. **The online course meets the standard requirement of 40 hrs of initial training. The three days field experience under a trained, experienced supervisor is the responsibility of the student employer or potential employer.
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The Clean Air Act describes the legislative history regarding the reduction of atmospheric pollution. The United States Congress first passed the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955,then the Clean Air Act in 1963, followed by amendments in 1966, the Clean Air Act Extension in 1970,and further amendments in 1977 and 1990.
This course discusses the goals and importance of the Clean Air Act through its legislative history. Amendments have been implemented to these Acts, especially the 1990 Amendments which are covered in great detail in this course.
This course also covers how the Clean Air Act is designed to protect people and how well that goal has been accomplished. In addition, the course describes the purpose and requirements of the New Source Review (NSR) permitting program and the Title V permit program. The course ends with the Clear Skies Legislation which was proposed to reduce power plant emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOX), and mercury.
This package is part of our Oil Spill Clean Up series designed to provide personnel with the relevant training and certifications that may be needed to participate in the cleanup efforts. This package consists of the 40 Hour HAZWOPER Course and RCRA: What the Law Requires Course.
40 Hour HAZWOPER: This course covers broad issues pertaining to the hazard recognition at work sites. OSHA has developed the HAZWOPER program to protect the workers working at hazardous sites and devised extensive regulations to ensure their safety and health. This course, while identifying different types of hazards, also suggests possible precautions and protective measures to reduce or eliminate hazards at the work place.
HAZWOPER 40 Hour is required for employees working on a project consisting of Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Operation mandated by the Government.
This course is specifically designed for workers who are involved in clean-up operations, voluntary clean-up operations, emergency response operations, and storage, disposal, or treatment of hazardous substances or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Topics include protection against hazardous chemicals, elimination of hazardous chemicals, safety of workers and the environment and OSHA regulations. This course covers topics included in 29 CFR 1910.120.
Note: Workers must have 40 hrs of initial training before they may enter the site and at least three days of actual field experience under a trained, seasoned supervisor. **The online course meets the standard requirement of 40 hrs of initial training. The three days field experience under a trained, experienced supervisor is the responsibility of the student employer or potential employer.
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Course Description: RCRA What the Law Requires
This course explains the history of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), its structure and its key elements that provide the framework for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) comprehensive waste management program. The course discusses the specific requirements of various types of facilities that treat, store, transport or dispose of hazardous waste.
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Bikinis Meet Hazmat Suits as Florida Weighs Closings (Update1)
June 11, 2010, 1:49 PM EDT
By Kim Chipman
June 11 (Bloomberg) -- A sheen of oil off of Pensacola Beach, a week after tar balls from the BP Plc spill began washing ashore, may force Florida to do the unthinkable: Close beaches.
Government officials must balance potential health dangers from oil arriving on the northwest Florida coast against the prospect that banned beaches would drive away visitors and cripple the state’s $60 billion tourism business.
Their decision so far has been to keep the coastline open even as crews paid by BP work to clean up the muck.
“We are swimming in it, we are lying out right next to it,” said Emily Boswell, 27, a veterinary technician from Pensacola, after spending a day at nearby Pensacola Beach. “Why are there people in hazmat suits and we are in our bikinis?”
State and local officials say there have been no beach closings because the sand and sea remain safe.
“There’s no imminent public health issue to warrant a closure at this time,” Nancy Blum, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in Tallahassee, said in an interview.
Robert McKee, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lawyer representing clients suing BP, said it’s “a significant probability” that the state will have to start closing beaches. He compared the situation to “Jaws,” the 1975 movie based on the book by the same name in which a killer shark terrorizes an island resort town. The fictional town’s mayor hushes up the danger to avoid scaring away tourists.
‘Shark in Waiting’
The oil is like “the shark in waiting,” he said. “If they give the warnings, they destroy their economy, and if they don’t give the warnings, they are complicit with the cause of the harm.”
Pensacola resident Terri Holley, 50, said she’s now staying away from the Gulf waters.
“I wouldn’t swim in it,” Holley, who works in marketing, said yesterday during a rally against BP in downtown Pensacola. “It kills me to see babies and pregnant women in that water.”
Government officials say they are monitoring the arrival of oil that has spewed from the BP well since a drilling rig exploded on April 20. The damaged well is gushing 20,000 to 40,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, twice as much as previously estimated, a team of government scientists said yesterday.
Perdido Key
Florida state health officials issued warnings on June 8 that swimmers at Perdido Key, near the Alabama border, enter the water at their own risk because tar balls were too numerous to avoid. County officials said all beaches remained open and that the advisory doesn’t ban swimming.
Pensacola Mayor Mike Wiggins told reporters on June 9 that a flyover he did of the area the previous day showed an oil sheen that could “easily” reach the coast as soon as today.
Larry Johnson, a Pensacola city councilman, said that while beaches “are safe as of now,” he worries about children who might not know to stay away from the balls and clumps of oil.
Closing beaches would be “economically devastating,” said Robert Rinke, president of Levin and Rinke Resort Realty in Pensacola Beach.
“That would be a last resort,” he said in an interview. “Officials would do everything they could to keep the beaches open as long as there wasn’t a public-safety issue.”
Florida environmentalists such as Manley Fuller said closings may be inevitable.
‘Forced To’ Close
“Obviously they don’t want to do that, but they may be forced to,” Fuller, president of the Florida Wildlife Federation, said in an interview
Even with the beaches open, charter fishermen, hotels, restaurants and other businesses that rely on tourists are seeing sales plummet in what is supposed to be their busiest time of the year.
“It’s like the oil is holding everybody hostage,” Johnson, the city councilman, said.
The spill could put 195,000 Floridians out of work and cost the state $10.9 billion should the area that includes Pensacola lose half its tourist traffic, according to estimates by Sean Snaith, an economist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
While the tar balls already on the beaches aren’t highly toxic, the oil spreading through the Gulf and chemical dispersants used by BP will affect Florida’s shores for decades, said Richard Snyder, head of environmental diagnostics and bioremediation at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.
‘Into The Future’
“This will cascade into the future and be with us for years,” he said in an interview.
Marty Hurd, a 29-year-old waitress from Prescott, Arkansas, said that’s why she brought her three sons, ages 2 through 8, to Pensacola Beach now.
“We brought our kids down here to see the ocean because they might not get to see it again for a long time,” Hurd said in an interview yesterday. “If the oil comes in here, it’s going to ruin it.”
--Editors: Larry Liebert, Steve Geimann
Gulf oil spill's ripples still a worry
Warranted or not, disaster fears loom
BY JIM WAYMER • FLORIDA TODAY • July 17, 2010
With the undersea gusher believed capped and tests ruling out the BP blowout as the source of local tar on the beach, the Space Coast and the rest of Florida await uncertain ripple effects from the nation's worst-ever oil mess.
Oceanographers want to know the paths of underwater oil plumes. Biologists wonder if nesting sea turtles that accidentally gulped oil will lay viable eggs or whether eggs relocated here from oily beaches can survive once released at Kennedy Space Center.
Consumers wonder if oysters and other seafood might harbor sickening chemicals, and what will become of seafood prices.
And tourism officials worry that perception of some Florida beaches as oiled could tar them all.
"It's a lot of myths that are out there," said Bonnie King, assistant director at the Space Coast Office of Tourism. "A blight on Florida is a blight on us, as well."
A University of Central Florida economist estimated the blowout could cost the state as much as 195,000 jobs and $10.9 billion in lost economic activity in a worst-case analysis of the hit on tourism.
But local tourism officials have speculated that Brevard and other Atlantic Coast hotels might gain business from people canceling trips to the Gulf Coast. They have no numbers yet to back that up, and it's a hard thing to measure, King said.
"Thank heaven it never got into the Gulf Stream," she said.
The oil's path is a hard thing to measure, too, oceanographers say.
Some had predicted the oil could reach Brevard in just weeks if the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current migrated over the oil mass. That never happened.
Instead, a large eddy called "Franklin" pinched off the loop, cutting off the oil's main pathway toward the Keys, around Florida and to the Space Coast, via the Gulf Stream.
Research vessels have yet to find any significant oil just west of the Keys.
But scientists say tar could lurk along the ocean floor with unknown long-term ecological consequences and lap up on Space Coast beaches for years, as it's done in the past.
"Tar can float around in the Sargasso Sea for years and years," said John Windsor, a professor of environmental sciences at Florida Tech. "It took millions of years to form this stuff, it doesn't break down very easily."
He said he doubts whether it will cause significant environmental impacts here, though. He worries more about the oil that goes up and down with the tides in the coastal grass marshes, potentially destroying plants that root a habitat that serves as a nursery for fish and other marine life.
"If that's lost, then you have no place to start the population over again," Windsor said. "If the habitat gets destroyed that they live in, then that's a serious problem."
Local seafood vendors already have seen prices go up for Gulf white and pink shrimp and oysters.
Seafood prices can increase because of far-off disasters. Salmon went up, for example, 20 percent to 40 percent after a micro-organism infection and the Icelandic volcano that interrupted deliveries.
For oysters, restoration techniques developed here may help blunt some of the damage to the industry.
Linda Walters, a University of Central Florida biology professor, has led restoration efforts in Mosquito Lagoon since 2005. Working with The Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit group, she's restored 41 oyster reefs, roughly 10 acres of shellfish.
And she's been working recently with state biologists and the U.S. National Park Service to offer her findings to restoration efforts and marine ecosystem research related to the oil spill. She's on a statewide university task force dedicated to responding to the disaster.
"If we didn't have the oyster reefs, the fish numbers would go way down, and we would lose all the blue crabs and the shrimp," Walters said in a prepared statement. "Without the oysters, this lagoon would just be a sandy bottom with a few worms."
A NOAA ship departed July 1 to study the effects on whales and dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico. Twenty-one species of marine mammals live in deep waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico, including the endangered sperm whale.
No one knows what the long-term impacts to them or to manatees will be.
Tsung-chow Su, a professor in Florida Atlantic University's department of ocean and mechanical engineering, said the biggest lesson learned from the blowout may be to have a contingency plan.
The technology is there, he said, to drill in deep water and to contain blowouts. Existing systems that can better siphon off the oil near its source and put it into temporary storage should be in place, he said.
"I think the lesson is we need to plan ahead," Su said. "There are many techniques available. We just have to prepare for it ahead of time."