360training.com Offers Pioneering UST Operator Training Course
Posted:
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Category:
Environmental, Industrial Skills
Three organizations have come together to deliver TPCA Class A and Class B UST Operator Training Course, the pioneering online course on underground storage tanks: the Texas Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association (TPCA), the TAIT Environmental, and 360training.com, the last a leading e-learning hub.
It took three to make it happen because of the training’s critical mission: To reduce the danger of accidental releases of toxic petroleum products from the state’s many underground storage tanks (USTs), which likely would poison not just the environment but also the groundwater from which Texas gets much of its water.
That danger is clear and ever-present: about 590,000 aging USTs, almost all of them owned and operated by gas stations, scattered all over the U.S. are in danger of leaking their contents if they are not properly maintained now or they continue to be incorrectly operated. By providing the training, 360training.com and its coursework collaborators hope to contain the danger and eliminate it in time.
To address the different aspects of safe UST operation and maintenance, the course was designed to cover ten important topics: release detection, initial release response, abatement, and NAPL removal, spill/overfill protection, corrosion protection, installation and technical standards for USTs, investigation and confirmation steps, TCEQ corrective action, waste management, and soil and groundwater cleanup, and financial assurance.
360training.com said that the coursework requires the student to pass the check-up quiz at the end of each of the eight lessons to progress to the next. Upon passing the final exam, the student receives a UST operator training certification to operate and maintain USTs in Texas. 360training.com announced that the certification is valid for three and a half years if the course is taken now.
Learn2serve.com, a portal of 360training.com, provides access to the TPCA Class A and Class B Underground Storage Tank Operator Training Course.
