Excal Visual, Inc. training

“HazMatters” is a video training kit that helps train employees on OSHA’s Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER): First Responder Awareness Level regulation and on key aspects of DOT’s Hazardous Materials regulation. The video follows the actions of a first responder awareness level worker through his response to a hazardous substance release. Features the 2008 DOT Emergency Response Guidebook.

The effects of a chemical spill are many and far-reaching -- work time and resources wasted, production delays, administrative burdens and the hassles and disruptions to employees work and personal lives. All these are illustrated in this video to help an employee understand the true cost of even a relatively small spill or release of a hazardous substance.

Since the adoption of the Global Harmonization Systems (GHS), the regulations governing the transport of hazardous materials have undergone numerous changes. DOT/Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (DOT/PHMSA) regulations (49 CFR 172.704) require that all `hazmat employers` train their `hazmat employees` on four different areas: General Awareness/Familiarization, Safety, Job Specific and Security Awareness. The General Awareness training has been directly affected by GHS. DOT HazMat General Awareness/Familiarization provides up-to-date, concise training to help satisfy the General Awareness requirement.

Since the adoption of the Global Harmonization Systems (GHS), the regulations governing the transport of hazardous materials have undergone numerous changes. DOT/Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (DOT/PHMSA) regulations (49 CFR 172.704) require that all `hazmat employers` train their `hazmat employees` on four different areas: General Awareness/Familiarization, Safety, Job Specific and Security Awareness. The General Awareness training has been directly affected by GHS. DOT HazMat General Awareness/Familiarization provides up-to-date, concise training to help satisfy the General Awareness requirement.

Employees learn why regulations exist and which regulations have particular impacts on American industry. Employees are shown how an EMS works and how conformance with EMS requirements ensures compliance with regulations and improvement in environmental protection.

This training kit is aimed at employees and contractors at facilities regulated under any environmental regulation rule. It promotes a sense of responsibility for environmental compliance and includes regulations such as the Clean Water Acts, Clean Air Acts and RCRA/CERCLA/SARA. Employees learn why regulations exist and which regulations have particular impacts on American industry. Employees are shown how an EMS works and how conformance with EMS requirements ensures compliance with regulations and improvement in environmental protection.

The deadline for OSHA Hazard Communication regulated facilities to train their employees on the changes that GHS brings to hazard communications has passed (December 1, 2013). Now facilities are faced with ongoing HazCom compliance. OSHA recommends that facilities “offer two iterations of training." The first iteration has come and gone. The second is still looming. Understanding GHS HazCom is a 2-video training kit that helps regulated facilities meet the second iteration as well as continuing training beyond the final effective date (June 1, 2016). This kit handles both post-GHS (“Final Version”) and pre- and post-GHS (“Transition Version”) hazard communication so employers can show their employees either only the new or both the old and new configurations depending on when training is conducted.

The EPA issued some pretty extensive revisions to the federal Hazardous Waste Rule: the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The revisions are contained in what is called the Hazardous Waste Generators Improvements Rule; which is considered to be a major change, with over 60 modifications in all.

This training kit contains one program for large quantity generators and another for small quantity generators. Both programs cover hazardous waste identification, generation processes, container labeling and handling, on-site accumulation, satellite accumulation, off-site shipping and emergency preparedness. Each kit also contains two SiteCast templates for site-specific training - one with slides only, another with integrated video.