Training

RCBEC provides a variety of training options for your company, including on-site training for employees and manager and train the trainer courses in selected areas of the country.   Also watch for our new series of CD based training modules.

HAZMAT Training

Hazmat training is required not only for drivers who transport HM, but also for any employee who is whose functions include packaging, marking, labeling, preparing manifests, loading and unloading, dispatching HM employees or any other activity involving the preparation or transport of hazardous materials.

Training requirements include:

• Familiarization training (required of all Hazmat employees within 90 days of becoming a Hazmat employee and every three years thereafter)
• Function specific training in areas specific to any Hazmat related task performed by a Hazmat employee.
• Emergency Response
• Safety training

RCBEC provides training in Familiarization training (including emergency response), and Function specific training.  An all inclusive 24-hr course is also available for employees who must perform in all hazmat functions.

Environmental Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) Training

Companies that have hazardous chemicals on sight may be required to develop Emergency Response Information, file MSDS reports and Inventory reports and meet other state requirements under the provisions of EPCRA.

RCBEC presently provides EPCRA training at selected locations throughout the country through ABS Consulting – Governmental Institutes. For information and to register go to: http://www.govinst.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ACS&Product_Code=TD20420

OSHA 40-Hour Hazardous Waste Operations

Roberta Barbalace will be teaching 40 hour Hazwopper training as a 3 credit course at Southern Maine Community College starting January 2006.  For information and to register go to: http://www.smccme.edu/ for general information.  To apply to the college go to:http://www.smccme.edu/docs.php?section=1&navid=60&docid=67, and to enroll for the course, go to: http://www.smccme.edu/docs.php?section=2&navid=60&docid=154   

OSHA 8-Hour Refresher

Hazardous waste workers are required to receive 40 Hr OSHA training, and be recertified annually with an 8-Hr refresher course.

RCBEC can provide 8-Hr refresher training on site.  Our CD based OSHA refresher training will be available soon.

RCRA, CERCLA, TSCA, EPCRA, SARA … Are all of these acronyms confusing? Are you certain that you are in compliance with these and others?

RCBEC provides training that can help you sort through all of these acts and ensure that you are in compliance.   

DOT Training

NEW Drivers Training:  New drivers (that is, commercial drivers that have just become commercial drivers), must receive training in logging and hours of service, driver qualification, driver wellness, and whistleblowers protection.

• Security Training
• Hazmat Training
• Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training
• Drug and Alcohol Reasonable Suspicion Training for supervisors.
• DOT Training For Hazmat Drivers: 
• Pre-trip safety inspection
• Use of vehicle controls and equipment, including operation of emergency equipment
• Use of vehicle controls and equipment, including operation of emergency equipment;
• Operation of vehicle, including:
  • turning,
  • backing,
  • braking,
  • parking,
  • handling,
  • vehicle characteristics
• Procedures for maneuvering tunnels, bridges, and railroad crossings
• Requirements pertaining to attendance of vehicles, parking, smoking, routing, and incident reporting; and
• Loading and unloading of materials, including
• Compatibility and segregation of cargo in a mixed load;
• Package handling methods; and 
• Load securement 

Transportation Management

While there is no specified training requirement for transportation managers (aside from reasonable suspicion supervisor training), Transportation managers must be trained in many aspects of transportation in order to ensure company compliance with regulations.  The following training is available to managers and coordinators:

• Hours-of-Service / Log auditing
• Completing and maintaining driver qualification (DQ) files
• Vehicle maintenance records / inspections
• Driver training files
• Permits / licenses / Registrations
• Preparing for a DOT audit

(RCBEC Provides several options for comprehensive driver training.)

Bloodborne Pathogen Training:

Since 1991 OSHA has required training in "Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens" for all employees who could be "reasonably anticipated" to face contact with blood and other potentially infectious materials as the result of performing their job duties, and are covered under the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Standard (29 CFR 1910.1030).

(RCBEC can provide convenient training that fulfills the requirements set forth by 29 CFR 1910.1030)

Fundamentals of Environmental Science

Roberta Barbalace will be teaching Findamentals of Environmental Science as a 4 credit course at Southern Maine Community College starting January 2006.  For information and to register go to: http://www.smccme.edu/ for general information.  To apply to the college go to:http://www.smccme.edu/docs.php?section=1&navid=60&docid=67, and to enroll for the course, go to:http://www.smccme.edu/docs.php?section=2&navid=60&docid=154