If you work with hazardous materials or potential pollutants, then spill response training is a must. Acute Safety and Safety Services offers a course directly approved by the Ontario Wastewater Certification Office. Read on to discover 3 things you need to know about spill response training. When it comes time to register, trust ACUTE – we provide comprehensive health and safety training and always emphasize customer service!
Spill Response Training: 3 Things You Need to Know
Why Spill Response Training Is important
According to the Ontario Environmental Protection Act, it is your duty as an owner or controller of a spilled pollutant to report and clean up a spill. You must do everything you can to prevent and eliminate the negative effects of a spill. This includes restoring the natural environment to its original state.
If you cause a spill and cannot or will not respond to properly clean it up, the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has the authority under the EPA to order you to do so.
It is therefore imperative to get your employees trained if there are hazardous materials at risk of being spilled at your place of work.
The safety of your workers is at stake, and you also risk facing legislation if spills aren’t handled properly.
Who Needs To Take This Course
Spill response training is designed for employers, supervisors, workers, workplace spill response or emergency response team members, Joint Health and Safety Committee members, and Environmental Managers.
However, it’s open to any worker who desires to learn safe, practical steps for spill response as well as gaining a deeper understanding of their duties under the Ontario Environmental Protection Act.
As mentioned in the introduction, the spill response training offered by ACUTE is approved by the Ontario Wastewater Certification Office, which issues licenses to Waste Water Operators.
Spill response training is particularly important for operators at water treatment and sewage plants.
What You Learn During Spill Response Training
Spill response training covers the legislative requirements and measures of spill reporting and cleanup. As an active participant, you will be taught practical strategies to both prevent and safely contain workplace spills.
Training programs are routinely customized to reflect client sites and products.
Specific topics include:
- Spill law and regulations: Ontario Environmental Protection Act
- Defining a reportable spill and reporting requirements
- Creating a safe spill response plan
- Recognize hazards
- Assessing risk
- Controlling risk
- Personal Protective Equipment selection
- Evaluating controls
- Sorbents and cleanup materials
- Containment materials and strategies
- 8 safe and practical steps for spill response
- How to properly dispose of spent spill materials
In this course, you will learn through classroom interaction with experienced instructors, demonstration and hands-on training in the care and use of equipment, detailed handouts, videos and quizzes, and mock spill response drills.
Keep in mind it’s a ½ day course (4 Hours), or a full day (8 Hours) if you want to include the practical spill drills.
The training can be done at your facility or at ACUTE’s training facility, whatever suits you best. There are some great benefits to both approaches: by completing your training on-site, you save on travel time; by completing your training at our facility, you benefit from our spacious training room, our state of the art hands-on training space, and full use of the break room.
Refreshers are encouraged, and the frequency depends on the level of risk involved in your particular workplace.
The training can be done at your facility or at ACUTE’s training facility.
Trust ACUTE For Spill Response Training
ACUTE’s trainers have first-hand experience with what they are training: We have a combined 100 years of experience serving healthcare, construction, and government industries.- Training programs are tailored to your specific applications and your company’s policies and procedures: ACUTE prepares your staff by making training material and hands-on components relevant to your workplace and team.
- Our training can occur on-site or at our first-class Training Centre: Make use of ACUTE’s facilities free when you come on our premise to take at least one of our courses.
- We work to provide the best customer service in the industry to our clients: ACUTE has been described as creative, customer-oriented, and flexible in meeting the needs of our partners.
Aside from these distinguishing factors, ACUTE also tracks your employee training records free of charge, each and every time your staff attend one of our courses.
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