2011 North Carolina
Environmental, Energy, Health & Safety (EEHS)
School
School Courses
2011 Air Quality Courses (AQ)
AQ-1: The Basics of Air Permitting and Control Technologies
AQ-2: A Basic Overview of Stack Testing Requirements in North Carolina
AQ-3: Major New Source Review
AQ-4: Overview of the Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) Permitting and Regulatory Requirements
AQ-5: Current CAA Legal & Enforcement Issues
2011 Energy & Sustainability Courses (ES)
ES-1: Improving Plant Energy Efficiency through an Auditing Program
ES-2: Benchmarking Your Facility: Evaluating and Tracking Energy Performance
ES-3: Life Cycle Analysis and Carbon/Energy Footprint
ES-4: Energy & Sustainability 101: Where do I start?
ES-5: Energy Management Systems
2011 Occupational Safety and Health Courses (OSH)
OSH-1: What’s Down The Road for OSH NC
OSH-2: An Introduction to GHS and its Impact on OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard
OSH-3: The Chemical Threat and the FBI Response
OSH-4: Safeguarding Employees Who Work Alone
OSH-5: Five Types of Human Error
2011 Waste Management Courses (WM)
WM-1: What Every Generator of Hazardous Waste Should Know
WM-2: Risk Based Cleanup Coming To a MFG Site Near You
WM-3: Ensuring Compliance with RCRA and OSHA by Exploring the Overlap
2011 Water Quality Courses (WQ)
WQ-1: The ABC’s of Stormwater
WQ-2: Recent Clean Water Act Cases Coming to Your State Soon
WQ-3: The New DWI: Discharging While Your Stream Is Impaired
2011 Air Quality Courses Descriptions
AQ-1: Basics of Air Permitting and Overview of Control Technologies
This session will be presented by the North Carolina Division of Air Quality (NCDAQ) permitting and compliance staff. Topics addressed will include North Carolina and federal regulations affecting air emission units and the basics of obtaining a permit and providing compliance demonstrations with a focus on emission control technologies.
Instructors:
Fern Paterson - NC-DENR, Division of Air Quality
Gary Saunders - NC-DENR, Division of Air Quality
AQ-2: Basic Overview of Stack Testing Requirements in North Carolina
This session will provide a basic overview of regulatory source testing and measurement techniques in North Carolina and the use of this information for permitting and compliance demonstrations.
Instructors:
Jim Serne – TRC
Mike Hartman – Air-Tech Environmental (tentative)
AQ-3: Major New Source Review
This session will provide an overview of the major new source review rule including Best Available Control Technology evaluations, air quality impacts evaluations, and additional impact evaluations. In addition, the affect of the GHG Tailoring Rule on PSD applicability for new and modified major stationary sources will also be included.
Instructors:
John Evans – NC-DENR, Division of Air Quality
Dave Svendsgaard, US EPA
AQ-4: Overview of the Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) Permitting and Regulatory Requirements
This session will provide an overview of the applicability requirements of the Internal Combustion Engines rules and the requirements for various categories and sizes of affected units.
Instructors:
Melanie King – EPA Energy Strategies Group
Steven McLeod – URS Corporation
AQ-5: Current CAA Legal & Enforcement Issues
This session will provide a detailed look at recent legal issues, court decisions, and enforcement cases pertaining to many of today’s air quality regulations and requirements. This will include a focus on the legal actions associated with the EPA Boiler MACT and CISWI rules.
Instructors:
Steven Weber – Parker Poe Law Firm
Marc Bernstein – North Carolina Attorney General’s Office
2011 Energy & Sustainability Course Descriptions
ES-1: Improving Plant Energy Efficiency through an Auditing Program
This session will focus on the energy auditing process for industrial facilities, providing case examples illustrating the potential energy saving and GHG emissions reductions achieved. Key agenda items include: Steps in the On-Site Energy Audit, Ten major systems to consider, Identification of Energy Conservation Opportunities (ECOs), and connection between energy auditing and emerging Clean Air Act energy assessment requirements.
Instructors:
Kim Reiterer, PE, President and Co-founder, Elm Engineering
ES-2: Benchmarking Your Facility: Evaluating and Tracking Energy Performance
This session will focus on using energy benchmarking facilitate energy accounting – including inter-facility comparisons, verifying the performance and energy reduction projects and quantifying overall energy savings. Attend and find out such key information as:,Existing Benchmarking Programs & Tools, Software Options for Tracking Energy Performance, Benchmarking Criteria & Approaches, and Making sense of the data (i.e., converting data to information for decision-making) .
Instructor:
Dan Fogel, PhD, President, SP3
ES-3: Life Cycle Analysis and Carbon/Energy Footprint
This session will focus on using life cycle analysis techniques to develop enterprise wide carbon and energy footprint data. Many organizations have encountered such a need to develop a life cycle analysis of their products. The session describes the LCA process and presents information on emerging protocols for determining product carbon footprints, developing environmental product declarations, and options among commercially available tools for conducting an LCA.
Instructor:
Penny Mahoney, DAK
Rich Pandullo, Trinity Consultants
Gina Hicks, Trinity Consultants
ES-4: Energy & Sustainability 101: Where do I start?
This session discusses key concepts pertaining to energy management and environmental sustainability and will help EH&S managers understand how companies can reduce costs and achieve competitive business advantages through sustainable best practices. Using a panel discussion format, industry experts will share real-world case examples regarding sustainability program implementation with an emphasis on the benefits to the company's bottom line.
Instructors:
Peter Marsh, LEED-AP, Vice President, Workplace Strategies
Randy Arnott, CPEA, EHS Manager, Cree
ES-5: Energy Management Systems
This session discusses recognized models for ensuring robust energy management throughout an organization. Background will be provided on the EPA Energy Star program as well as the emerging ISO 50001 standards for Energy Management. Case examples will be discussed showing the features of an effective energy management system and the potential savings realized.
Instructors:
Mike Walker, PE, CEM, Director - Environment and Energy, The EI Group
Jessica Idzerda, Trinity Consultants
2011 Occupational Safety and Health Course Descriptions
OSH-1: What’s Down The Road for OSH NC
Allen McNeely, Director, Occupational Safety & Health Division, NC Dept of Labor will discuss changes to the OSHA program initiated by the federal government and what employers can expect to see from North Carolina OSH in 2011-2012.
Instructor: Allen McNeely, Director, Occupational Safety & Health Division, NC Dept of Labor
OSH-2: An Introduction to GHS and its Impact on OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard
This session will provide an overview of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) and its impact on the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard. The participant will gain a general understanding of the structure and requirements of the GHS model regulations and proposed changes to the HAZCOM standard that will be necessary to harmonize the regulation with the requirement of GHS. The impact of GHS on an international pharmaceutical company will be discussed including the many challenges of implementing these requirements on a global scale.
Instructors:
Lindsay Cook, CIH, CSP, The EI Group Inc.
Karen Odom, GlaxoSmithKline
OSH-3: The Chemical Threat and the FBI Response
This session will discuss current trends in chemical uses by entities that wish to inflict harm to the US and US interests and the FBI’s response to a major chemical incident.
Instructor:
James J. Page Jr.,
Special Agent,
Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordinator
Federal Bureau of Investigations
OSH-4: Safeguarding Employees Who Work Alone
Many employees work alone such as: Workers who perform work at their home base without readily available assistance, Workers who travel alone and have no routine interaction with the public, A single worker in a laboratory or warehouse or remote facility and The maintenance mechanic on the roof servicing an HVAC unit. OSHA has at least 8 or 9 standards that prohibit employees from working alone. But OSHA does not have a standard that addresses employees who do work alone. OSHA has addressed working alone in General Duty citations and NIOSH has addressed working alone in FACE reports. This session describes current legislation and standards, and the elements needed for an effective policy that safeguards employees who work alone.
Instructor: David Cobel, CTJ Safety Associates
OSH-5: Five Types of Human Error
History is rife with stories of disaster and loss which resulted from various types of human error. Many of these stories carry lessons learned that can be highly valuable to overcome the safety and health challenges we face in our organizations. In this session, you will learn the five types of human error, how these errors resulted in tragic results and various reduction strategies that could have avoided these events. You will take away a human error reduction and management strategies checklist.
Instructor: Bill Taylor, Principal Safety Scientist, EI, Inc.
2011 Waste Management Course Descriptions
WM-1: What Every Generator of Hazardous Waste Should Know
Learn from someone else’s mistakes. A compliance inspector from the North Carolina Division of Waste Management will show via photographs the good, the bad and the ugly things that inspectors have found during compliance inspections at hazardous waste generator facilities.
Instructor: Bobby Nelms, NC-DENR, Division of Waste Management
WM-2: Risk Based Cleanup Coming To a Mfg Site Near You
Historically, some DENR environmental regulatory programs have had authority to consider risk based cleanup standards for contaminated property while others did not. This regulatory disparity has caused remediation goals to be inconsistent across the state. During the 2011 – 2012 session of the General Assembly, House Bill 45 was introduced to accelerate cleanup of industrial properties in those regulatory programs formerly without risk-based remediation authority. This bill is on track to become law. This session will provide a summary of the law from industry and regulatory perspectives and discuss what the new authority means to industrial sites.
Instructors:
Charles Case, Hunton & Williams Law Firm
Jimmy Carter, Solutions-IES
Charlotte Jesneck. NC DENR DWM
WM-3: Ensuring Compliance with RCRA and OSHA by Exploring the Overlap
Environmental, health and safety professionals exert tremendous effort to comply with various regulations. Often these regulations overlay resulting in duplication of compliance efforts. This presentation will explore the overlap between OSHA and RCRA regulations to help those responsible for compliance understand the difference.
Instructor: Brian N. Polk, Health & Safety Consultant, NC-DENR, Division of Waste Management
2011 Water Quality Course Descriptions
This course will benefit environmental professionals of all levels, providing broad coverage of the construction permitting process and detailed review of the new permit language for Phase II stormwater rules and permits. The presentation will also include a walk through the requirements and steps for negotiating the construction stormwater plan process and ongoing compliance. Case studies will be included to convey some of the subtle but important ways to comply with the program and obtain permits.
Instructor: Everette Knight, Hazen and Sawyer
WQ-2: Recent Clean Water Act Cases Coming to Your State Soon
Federal courts across the United States are actively parsing the Clean Water Act and its application to industrial wastewater dischargers. From California to Florida, the rules of wastewater permitting are being rewritten. This course is designed to update you on the trends of federal courts interpreting the Clean Water Act. California courts are redefining waters of the United States and "point sources" for which permits are applicable. Florida courts are considering the validity of water quality standards for nutrient loading, which may affect every point source discharge. The United States Supreme Court recently approved settlement of disputes between North and South Carolina over water flows in each state, and the Fourth Circuit recently set a high hurdle for citizens suits, requiring alleged violations in any notice of intent to sue filed with EPA be more specific in order to succeed. This timely discussion will provide insight to how the Clean Water Act IS being interpreted nationwide.
Instructor: Ethan R. Ware, McNair Law Firm
WQ3: The New DWI: Discharging While Your Stream Is Impaired
This course will discuss NC DENR’s process for identifying impaired streams, and actions taken to restore them. Case studies will be used to highlight how facilities can identify ways to be pro-active in preventing and addressing impairments of surface waters.
Instructors:
Cam McNutt, NC-DENR, Division of Water Quality, Modeling and TMDL Unit
Kathy Stecker, NC-DENR, Division of Water Quality
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