8-hour Hazardous Waste Site Worker Refresher Training

In accordance with OSHA's 1910.120, all workers who have been certified in 40-hour Hazardous Waste Site training must take a yearly refresher to maintain their certification. This one-day course updates trainees on standards and practices and allows workers to improve hazardous waste site protection methods. The course consists of tabletop exercises and may contain hands-on demonstrations depending on the curriculum, which is changed yearly

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Sample agenda & course outline
8-Hour Hazardous Waste Site Worker Health and Safety Refresher Course

Applicable Standards:
This course is designed to meet the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.120 (e)(8). Other standards referenced in 1910.120 (b)-(o) and which are covered in this course include:

1910.95 – Hearing Protection
1910.146 – Confined Space Entry

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Curriculum Components:

1. TNEC developed Student Manual for this course.
   NOTE: TNEC develops a new Hazardous Waste Site Worker Refresher Course annually, sothat students returning to TNEC year after year for their Refresher Training are presented with new materials each time. The information presented here, by way of example, is for the Refresher Course and Manual developed by TNEC for use during the period September 1, 2004-August 31, 2005. A total of four Table Top Activities and two Computer-Based modules are completed by students as they work through this course.
2. Course Agenda, 1/student. (Note: See page three of this course description for agenda copy.)
3. NIOSH Pocket Guide, 1/student.
4. North American Emergency Response Guidebook, 1/student.
5. Video: Heat Stress
6. Game: Toxic Darts (An adaptation of Toxic Jeopardy)
7. Computer-Based Safe Driving Simulation

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Learning Objectives & Performance Measures, By Module, In Order Presented:

Module 1: Introduction
Trainers introduce themselves to the class indicating their backgrounds, current affiliation with the TNEC training program, interests relative to health and safety and any areas of expertise that they are willing to share with students. Students introduce themselves to the others present and give a brief summary of the kind of site work that they currently are doing or have done in the past, their reason for attending this Refresher training and any expectations beyond receiving a certificate of training. Trainers briefly review the agenda for the day.

Learning Objectives: To introduce one-self to others present, to learn the names and backgrounds of others present. To understand the content of the day’s training.

Performance Measures: Students are able to describe the variety of work experiences represented in the class.

Module 2: Activity 1 - Where Have You Worked?
Learning Objectives: Each student fills out a form, which prompts him/her to consider the kinds of site work in which they have been involved during the past year. This includes Site Type, Site Name (if known), Chemical(s) Involved, their Job At The Site and Numbers Of Workers On Site.

Performance Measures: Students fill in the provided form and, one at a time, share that information with others present, so that all might gain a further level of understanding of the site work experience represented that day. This form is collected by the trainers and the information on it is used to develop a periodic report to NIEHS of student work experience.

Module 3: Activity 2 - Thinking About Health and Safety
Learning Objectives: Share health and safety experiences; Identify problems and successes; and gather information about the activities at various sites.

Performance Measures: In small groups, students: Identify and list health and safety problems they have encountered individually in their work experience, preferably during the past year; Choose one of the incidents to report to the whole class and make a diagram of the situation; On the diagram, they list the health and safety hazards and how they were (or should have been) controlled; and, One or two from each small group present the chosen illustrative case to the entire class.

Module 4: Review of Noise and Hearing Protection
Learning Objectives:The units of measure for frequency and sound pressure, the three categories of noise exposure and definition of each, the three elements that determine how noise will affect the ear, the early sign of temporary hearing loss or damage, the warning sign of permanent hearing loss, the two most common instruments for measuring noise, the rule of thumb to determine if a noise is too loud, the level at which an employer is required to administer a hearing conservation program and ways to control noise exposure and identify which ones must be considered first.

Performance Measures: Activity 3 – Working in Small Groups, students are able to satisfactorily answer a 10 question Quiz on above learning objectives or understand why their response(s) were not correct.

Module 5: Review of Heat Stress
Learning Objectives:Methods for prevention of heat stress, how to figure work/rest schedules, the Heat Equation, symptoms and actions to be taken in case of Heat Exhaustion and of Heat Stroke.

Performance Measures:Activity 4 – Working in Small Groups, students discuss and then successfully present each group’s responses to a 2 question activity in which work/rest schedules and controls are selected for a specific work setting.

Module 6: Activity 5 - The Game of Toxic Darts
Learning Objectives: In small groups, students review in a fun filled and competitive way the course materials and subjects presented to them during their original 40 hour Site Worker Training Course.

Performance Measures: Students are able to answer questions correctly or to understand why their responses were not correct.

Module 7: Review of Confined Space Entry and Rescue Requirements
Learning Objectives: The range of Confined Space (CS) experience represented in the class; Using available CS training equipment, trainers review the following topics: What is a Confined Space? and What is a Permit Required Confined Space?, Basic legal requirements and worker rights in CS work; Monitoring of CS’s and interpretation of readings, Safe CS entry procedures; What lockout of hazardous equipment and energy sources entails and why it is so important and the three kinds of CS Rescue.

Performance Measures: Activity 6 – Confined Space Tool Box Talk

Working in Small Groups of 2-3 students/group and seated at an internet connected PC station, students research the OSHA web site and develop a Tool Box Talk that: Describes the range of CS experience represented in their group; Defines a CS and a Permit Required CS; Lists the atmospheric hazards that may occur in a CS and how monitoring for those hazards can be performed; Lists the items required to be on an Entry Permit and who is responsible for doing this task; Lists the three kinds of rescue and how they are performed; and, Specifies the training requirements for various members of a CS Team. Students copy their Tool Box Talk to a portable memory stick for presentation and discussion in the classroom by each Small Group.

Module 8: OSHA’s Recent Special Emphasis On Driver Safety
Learning Objectives:Review most recent OSHA data for motor-vehicle related incidents/fatalities and connect same to driving to and from work and while at work; Roadway crashes are the leading cause of Occupational Fatalities in the U.S.; How to use the Hierarchy of Controls to improve Safe Driving; Attributes of aggressive drivers vs. Road Rage; the effect of wireless phone use while driving and cognitive distraction;

Performance Measures: Activity 7 – Computer Based Driving Simulation
Students participate in Small Groups in a computer-based driving simulation and explore the possible consequences of different strategies in simulated real-life driving situations.

Module 9: Clean Up, Pass Out Course Evaluation Questionnaire and Collect Same and Distribute Refresher Certificates.
Trainers review any expectations identified by individual students at the beginning of the day and if they were addressed during this training session. Trainers may offer to follow up later, on an individual basis, with students whose questions or concerns could not be addressed during the day. Students are asked to fill in an anonymous Course Evaluation, the responses from which TNEC management and trainers use, at least in part, to determine the effectiveness of the training presented and to continuously improve this training program. Trainers congratulate students as they give out certificates.

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THE NEW ENGLAND CONSORTIUM OPEN ENROLLMENT AGENDA FOR 8 Hr. HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE WORKER REFRESHER

(Typical Agenda)

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