Environmental and Safety Consulting Services & Trainings
Portable Fire Extinguisher Safety Training*
This training program will discuss fire science and the “Fire Triangle” as well as different types of fire extinguishers and safety considerations while involved with insipient stage fires. This program is conducted in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.157.
Topics include:
- Definitions & Regulatory Overview
- Fire Triangle
- Different types of fires and fire extinguishers
- Safe practice and extinguisher use while involved with insipient stage fires
- Training requirements
Bloodborne Pathogens Training*
This training program will discuss safeguards to protect workers from exposure to blood and certain body fluids containing blood borne pathogens such as Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1030.
Topics include:
- Definitions & Regulatory Overview
- Symptoms of blood borne diseases
- Modes of transmission of blood borne pathogens
- Employer exposure control plan.
- Recognizing tasks and other activities that may involve exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials
- Methods that will prevent or reduce exposure including appropriate engineering controls, work practices, and personal protective equipment
- Hepatitis B vaccine
- Appropriate actions to take in an emergency involving blood or other potentially infectious materials
- Exposure Incident Reporting & Post-exposure evaluation and follow-up
- Signs and labels and/or color-coding required.
- Q & A
*MA DEP Training Contact Hours (TCH)
Confined Space Entry Training*
The OSHA standard 29 CFR 1910.146 is intended to protect workers from toxic, explosive, or asphyxiating atmospheres and from possible engulfment from small particles, such as grain or sawdust. It focuses on areas with immediate health or safety risk, denoting these as "permit-required" confined spaces. Employers must identify all permit-required spaces in their workplaces, prevent unauthorized entry into them, and protect authorized workers from hazards through a permit space program.
This training program will address recognition of confined spaces, hazards and the roles of personnel involved in confined space entries.
* MA DEP Training Contact Hours (TCH)
Confined Space Rescue Training
Topics Included:
Regulation overview on Entry Rescue
When Entry Rescue is needed
Life threatening vs. non-life threatening injuries
Emergency monitoring and ventilation procedures
Rescue gear and Personal Protective Equipment
Ropes, lines, and pulleys
Mechanical Advantage
Simple rigging system
Rigging practical
Rescue practical
* MA DEP Training Contact Hours (TCH)
Fall Protection / Walking Working Surfaces Training*
Slips, trips, and falls account for many industry accidents. They cause 10 percent of all accidental deaths and are fourth, following motor vehicles, homicides, and being struck by objects or equipment as a cause of fatalities. This training program will address common hazards and how to mitigate them in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.21-.26 & .28.
Topics include:
- Regulatory Overview & Definitions
- General Requirements
- Guarding floors, wall openings and holes
- Fixed industrial stairs
- Portable wood ladders
- Portable metal ladders
- Safety requirements for scaffolding
Forklift Training*
This program will teach the student awareness and how to avoid common forklift hazards. The program will address the unique mobility of these machines and how to perform regulated inspection requirements. Operational instructions, proper fueling, a written exam and practical driving evaluation in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.178(l) will all be a part of this comprehensive program.
Topics include:
- Awareness/Typical Accidents
- Forklift Mobility
- Pre-Operational Inspection
- Operation
- Un-attended Vehicles
- Ramps & Inclines
- Lifting and Traveling With Loads
- Fueling
MA DEP Training Contact Hours (TCH)
General Electrical Safety Training / Work-Related Practices*
This training program covers the OSHA work-practice standards 29 CFR 1910.331-.335 including requirements for work performed on or near exposed energized and de-energized parts of electric equipment; use of electrical protective equipment; and the safe use of electric equipment.
Topics include:
- Definitions & Regulatory overview
- Qualified and Unqualified persons
- Selection and use of work practices
- Energized and de-energized parts
- Locking and tagging overview
- Use of equipment
- Portable electrical equipment
- Safeguards for personal protection
*MA DEP Training Contact Hours (TCH)
Hazard Communications*
This Hazard Communications training program addresses chemical substances in the work place and the relay of information about the hazards of those chemicals to employees. Information including container labeling, forms of warning, and material safety data sheets are part of this program in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1200.
Topics include:
- Regulatory overview
- Chemical labeling & signs.
- Chemical routes of entry into the body.
- Effects of chemical exposure.
- Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
- Methods and observations that may be used to detect the presence or release of hazardous chemicals in the work area.
- The measures employees can take to protect themselves from these hazards, i.e. work practices, emergency procedures, and personal protective equipment to be used.
*MA DEP Training Contact Hours (TCH)
Occupational Noise Exposure / Hearing Conservation Training*
The employer shall administer a continuing, effective hearing conservation program, whenever employee noise exposures equal or exceed an 8-hour time-weighted average sound level (TWA) of 85 decibels. This training program will address hearing conservation programs, hearing hazards, hearing protection and other relevant topics in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.95.
Topics include:
- Regulatory Overview & Definitions
- Effects of noise on hearing and measuring noise
- The purpose of hearing protectors, the advantages, disadvantages, and attenuation of various types, and instructions on selection, fitting, use, and care.
- Audiometric testing overview, test procedures and Standard Threshold Shift.
*MA DEP Training Contact Hours (TCH)
Laboratory Safety Training*
This training program will discuss the hazards associated with chemicals in the lab, the content and importance of employers Chemical Hygiene Plans and other relevant topics in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1450.
Topics include:
- Regulatory Overview & Definitions
- Signs and symptoms associated with exposures to hazardous chemicals used in the laboratory
- The physical and health hazards of chemicals in the work area
- Safe handling, storage and disposal of hazardous chemicals found in the laboratory.
- Personal protective equipment to be used.
- Ventilation -fume hoods
- Appropriate work practices & housekeeping
- Methods and observations that may be used to detect the presence or release of a hazardous chemical
- Emergency procedures
*MA DEP Training Contact Hours (TCH)
Lifting & Back Safety Training
Lower back pain and injuries attributed to manual lifting activities continue as one of the leading occupational health and safety issues facing preventive medicine. Although no approach has been found to totally eliminate back injuries caused by lifting, an effective training program and ergonomically designed work tasks and equipment will help to prevent a substantial number of this type of injury.
Topics include:
- Types of injuries and how they occur
- Safe lifting techniques
- The National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOSH) equation
- Planning, engineering controls and preventative measures
- When back pain occurs
Lock Out / Tag Out Training
Lock out-Tag out is the process of blocking the flow of energy from a power source to a piece of equipment, and keeping it blocked out. This training program, in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.147, will discuss precautions and work practices to be taken during the servicing and maintenance of machines and equipment in which the unexpected energizing or startup of the machines or equipment, or release of stored energy could cause injury to employees.
Topics include:
- Regulatory Overview & Definitions
- What are “Authorized” and “Affected” employees?
- Purpose of Lock out/ Tag out
- Recognition and control of hazardous energy sources
- Types of Lock out devices and there use
- Tags
- Lock out/ Tag out procedures
- Safe Release of stored energy
- Communication and accident prevention
- Outside contractors
*MA DEP Training Contact Hours (TCH)
Personal Protective Equipment Training
Anyone encountering hazardous substances, whether it is through the cleanup of spilled chemicals or the everyday work in a process that uses chemicals, must be protected against potential hazards. The purpose of personal protective clothing and equipment (PPE) is to shield or isolate individuals from the chemical, physical, and biologic hazards that may be encountered on the job. This training program will discuss the various types of PPE available, their use and limitations in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.132,.133,.135,.136,.138.
Topics include:
- Regulatory Overview & Definitions
- General requirements
- Eye & Face
- Head
- Foot
- Hand
- PPE selection
- How to properly don, doff, adjust, and wear PPE (Demonstrations)
- The limitations of the PPE
- The proper care, maintenance, useful life and disposal of the PPE.
*MA DEP Training Contact Hours (TCH)
Welding, Cutting & Brazing Safety Training
This training program will discuss the hazards and dangers associated with various welding operations in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.251-.255.
Topics include:
- Regulatory Overview & Definitions
- General requirements
- Basic & Special safety precautions
- Oxygen-fuel gas welding & cutting safety
- Arc welding & cutting safety
- Resistance welding safety
- Welding or cutting containers
- Confined spaces
- Ventilation
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Compressed gases and cylinder safety
- Electric shock
- Interlocks, guarding & shields
- Labeling requirements
*MA DEP Training Contact Hours (TCH)
Respiratory Protection Training (APRs)
OSHA may require you to establish a respiratory protection program when exposure to an airborne contaminant or to low oxygen levels can cause illness or injury to employees. This program is focused on the use of Air Purifying Respirators (APRs) in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134.
Topics covered include:
- General requirements of this standard
- Why the respirator is necessary and how improper fit, use, or maintenance can compromise the protective effect of the respirator
- Limitations and capabilities of the respirator
- Use in emergency situations
- How to inspect, put on and remove, use and check the seals
- Procedures for maintenance and storage
- Recognition of medical signs and symptoms that may limit or prevent effective use
Respiratory Protection Training (SCBAs)
OSHA may require you to establish a respiratory protection program when exposure to an airborne contaminant or to low oxygen levels can cause illness or injury to employees. This program is focused on the use of Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBAs) in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134.
Radiation Safety Training
Topics to be covered in our Radiation Safety course include atomic structure, properties of ionizing radiation, shielding, radiation and biological safety terms and units, biological effects of radiation exposure, radiation detection and measurement, state and federal regulations, dosimetry, emergency procedures, records/documentation, and instrumentation.
Topics include:
- Regulation Overview
- Properties of Ionizing Radiation
- Biological Effects of Radiation Exposure
- Instrumentation
- Site Control & Decontamination
- Shielding
- ALARA