The UST A/B Operator Training
Posted: Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Category: Environmental, Industrial Skills
Now that certification is being required by many states, including Texas, to operate underground storage tanks (USTs) in compliance with state and federal regulations, marketers such as gas-station operators and convenience-store owners are casting about for the best way to get their certification to operate USTs. 360training.com is providing just that training to currently uncertified…
First TCEQ Approved Online UST Class A/B Operator Training
Posted: Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Category: Environmental, Industrial Skills
There are over 590,000 underground storage tanks (USTs) storing petroleum or other potentially hazardous substances in the United States today. Most of these are owned by gas stations and various industries, but some are maintained by commercial properties and government entities. Each one, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is a serious environmental…
Construction Industry Going Green and LEED-Certified
Posted: Monday, January 16th, 2012
Category: Environmental, Industrial Skills
Only a few studies have been conducted so far on the economic pluses of building green or of retrofitting a building to be certified green. These pioneering surveys have become important landmarks for an industry that increasingly has no way to go but green—as indeed have its practitioners who are scrambling to earn the coveted…
Green to Go for Electrical and General Contractors
Posted: Monday, January 16th, 2012
Category: Environmental, Industrial Skills
A new trend in construction seems to be hamstringing the industry’s recovery from the four-year-old housing bust and recession. Green retrofitting of commercial buildings, reports insurancejournal.com, is actually outpacing the construction of new green buildings, and by a good margin. The trend, speculates the article by Don Jergler, points to two things: one, increasingly more…
Underground Storage Tank Training made available by 360training.com
Posted: Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Category: Environmental, Industrial Skills
Time to save the environment! The State of Texas, the Texas Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association (TPCA), the TAIT Environmental, and 360training.com have come together to help reduce the danger of accidental releases of toxic petroleum products from the state’s many underground storage tanks (USTs)—poisoning the groundwater from which Texas derives a substantial amount…
Safeguarding the Groundwater: Enroll TCEQ-Approved UST Training
Posted: Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Category: Environmental, Industrial Skills
Nearly half of the contiguous United States today gets its drinking water from groundwater, the water that that has soaked into the soil and bedrock, accumulating underground in the spaces between rocks and soil particles. It is a critically important natural resource, but its viability is fragile and is under threat. Over 590,000 underground storage…
Pioneering TCEQ-Approved UST Training to Control LUST
Posted: Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Category: Environmental, Industrial Skills
LUST is dangerous. LUST is unhealthy. And LUST is everywhere. LUST, or leaking underground storage tank, was a problem in the making for nearly half a century. The end of World War II kick-started an unprecedented boom in automobile manufacturing, which turned out to be the industrial trigger for the proliferation of gas stations all…
LUST and the TCEQ-Approved UST Training
Posted: Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Category: Environmental, Industrial Skills
LUST is dangerous. LUST is unhealthy. And LUST is everywhere. LUST, or leaking underground storage tank, was a problem in the making for nearly half a century. The end of World War II kick-started an unprecedented boom in automobile manufacturing, which turned out to be the industrial trigger for the proliferation of gas stations all…
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…
LUST and the Pioneering TCEQ-Approved UST Training
Posted: Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Category: Environmental, Industrial Skills
LUST is dangerous. LUST is unhealthy. And LUST is everywhere. LUST, or leaking underground storage tank, was a problem in the making for nearly half a century. The end of World War II kick-started an unprecedented boom in automobile manufacturing, which turned out to be the industrial trigger for the proliferation of gas stations all…
New Standards (Industrial and Environmental Disasters)
Posted: Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Category: Environmental, ISO Training
Who can forget the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, quite possibly the world’s worst industrial and environmental disaster of all time? It killed 11 workers and cost untold billions in damages. It also galvanized the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to develop an action plan on international standards to aid…
Recovery Hazards After The Wildfires In Texas
Posted: Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Category: Environmental, ISO Training
Finally after three continuous days of stiff winds fed by the fast-dissipating Tropical Storm Lee, meteorological conditions have calmed down enough to enable fire crews to make significant headways controlling the wildfires. According to fire chiefs, about 30 percent of the big fire in Bastrop, Texas has now been contained, fueling hope that the end…
Avoiding LEED-tigations: Some Tips and the LEED Green Associate Exam
Posted: Monday, December 19th, 2011
Category: Environmental, OSHA and Safety
Here Come the LEED-tigations. In an interesting article (“Legal tips for construction firms pursuing LEED”) that appeared recently on dailycommercialnews.com, writer Peter Kenter cautioned that litigations involving LEED-related issues in building construction are bound to become increasingly prominent on the scene as owners and builders become greener in their expectations. LEED, which stands for Leadership…
LEED Green Associate Exam Prep Course
Posted: Monday, December 19th, 2011
Category: Environmental, OSHA and Safety
How green was my valley? That was a question asked a long time ago by Richard Llewellyn in his novel by the same title, but today virtually the same question is finding resonance among green advocates and ordinary homeowners who want to live in an environment that’s clean, sustainable, and green. Luckily for the environment,…
360training.com Makes Available UST Facility Operator Training Course
Posted: Monday, December 19th, 2011
Category: Environmental, Industrial Skills
Time to save the environment! The State of Texas, the Texas Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association (TPCA), the TAIT Environmental, and 360training.com have come together to help reduce the danger of accidental releases of toxic petroleum products from the state’s many underground storage tanks (USTs)—poisoning the groundwater from which Texas derives a substantial amount…
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