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Product Stewardship Institute, Inc.
29 Stanhope Street
Boston, MA 02116
617-236-4855 (Main)
617-236-4766 (Fax)
www.productstewardship.us
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CHEMICALS POLICY WORKSHOPS
2009 NW Chemicals Policy Symposium
6/4/09 Full Day Event - 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
$50 - Includes breakfast and lunch
"Moving ahead on a broad, integrated vision for sustainable chemicals policy."
You are specially invited to join us for the 2009 Northwest Chemicals Policy Symposium, a one-day, action-oriented workshop for stakeholders working toward a green materials economy where manufacture, use, and end-of-life management of consumer products have no adverse effects on our health or our environment. Participants will include active voices from government (local, state, and federal), business, advocacy groups, academia, and health and environmental organizations. This will be a roll-up your sleeves workshop designed to survey current successes, challenges, goals and strategies, identify shared priorities, establish partnerships, and develop local and regional action plans to advance meaningful reform. This highly-interactive workshop has been designed with the assistance of large-group process specialists Kenoli Oleari and Marc Tognotti of the San Francisco-based non-profit, Institute of the Commons (www.iotc-hub.org).
TRAININGS
8 Hour HAZWOPER Refresher
6/01/09 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
$140.00 for Members || $165.00 for Non-Members
Description: This Refresher course will review HAZWOPER Regulations, Health and Safety procedures, hazardous chemicals, safety hazards, air monitoring, medical surveillance, sitecontrol, decontamination, personal protective equipment, and respiratory equipment. Course meets training requirements of OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120. This is an 8 hour refresher course for HAZWOPER.
Trainers: Scott Windsor, Spokane County, WA and Jim Mansfield, Clark County Department of Public Works, WA.
4 Hour Chemistry Meets Reality
6/4/09 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
$90.00 for Members || $115.00 for Non-Members
Description: This Chemistry training is designed to provide a basic understanding and awareness of chemistry for people that work with or near chemicals in their jobs. It includes explanations of the categories of hazardous materials such as explosives, flammables, water reactives, pyrophorics, oxidizers and organic peroxides. Also covered are basic chemical characteristics and incompatibilities, handy conversions and chemical data in MSDSs that is actually useful. Suggested attendees include hazardous waste managers and technicians, environmental health & safety inspectors and fire inspectors.
Trainer: Dave Waddell, King County, WA
4 Hour Things that go BOOM!
6/4/09 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
$90.00 for Members || $115.00 for Non-Members
Description: This course will provide information on a variety of explosives (detonators, bombs), shock sensitive materials and meth lab materials.
Trainer: Dave Waddell, King County, WA and Sergeant Lance Dauber, King County Sheriff's Office
4 Hour DOT Regulations
6/4/09 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
$115.00 for Members || $140.00 for Non-Members
Description: Tired of those boring videos! Want to get more out of the training? Don’t know where to look in the regulations to find shipping names! Didn’t know you had to have shipping names! Attend the NAHMMA pre conference training and get info from over 20 years of practical hands on HHW experience. Understand how it can be regulated by DOT but not by EPA. Experience the excitement of finding the proper shipping names. WOW your fellow workers with your new found knowledge of the 49 CFR. Share your frustration with others and see the light of the DOT regulations. Overcome your fears of the fine print we find in the shipping regulations. Stay out of compliance trouble by attending this training session so that you meet the three year training requirements established by DOT. This is an excellent companion session to the Risk Awareness for HHW Facilities.
Trainer: Bob Fletcher, CHMM, CET
Risk Awareness
6/4/09 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
$115.00 for Members || $140.00 for Non-Members
Description: You mean there are risks associated with HHW facilies? Do you know what to look for when working, volunteering, managing a HHW event? Are you up to speed on the Really Complicated Regulatory Act (EPA-RCRA) , DOT and OSHA issues. Be an engaged worker or volunteer and be sure you are taking care of compliance issues. Feel in the dark when you look at the regs, well, turn on the power of regulations to be your partner, not your enemy. We will help you to engage your though process for safety and compliance to your workers and customers. This training session will bring over 30 years of practical knowledge and experience in the area of chemicals and safety. Bring those special scenarios, questions, comments with you and we will brainstorm the solutions. This training session will be an excellent companion to the DOT training course, which by the way is required every three years!!
Trainer: Bob Fletcher, CHMM, CET
TOURS
NWPSC Get On the Bus Tour
6/1/09 Full Day Event - 6:45 AM - 5:00 PM
$100 - includes bus transportation, breakfast, lunch, and snacks
As part of our four day conference, PSI and NAHMMA Northwest Chapter will host a day-long tour on Monday, June 1, 2009 to experience British Columbia’s successful product stewardship programs. We will tour Product Care’s paint processing facility; a multi-materials collection depot for unwanted electronic equipment, beverage containers, and paint; and a recycling center that handles packaging and containers from a retail store where it is co-located. This exceptional tour was created by the Northwest Product Stewardship Council in October 2007.
British Columbia's policies of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), also known as Product Stewardship, shift the burden of special handling and disposal of products from local governments to manufacturers of products. Manufacturers are asked to implement programs to recover and responsibly recycle their products at no cost to taxpayers. The costs of these programs are borne by consumers and producers who understand that these policies are essentially market-based incentives to improve product design and to internalize the costs of the use of these products.
Join us for this unique opportunity to witness British Columbia’s product stewardship programs in action and speak with various EPR experts. Please note that all registrants must bring a passport in order to participate.
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