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IIAR STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES FOR AMMONIA AND CO2 REFRIGERATION M-A2

Monday 1pm to 2:30pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM NORTHWEST
Seating	140 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.5
Speakers	Eric Smith
Objective	Attendees will learn about required standards and non-mandatory guidelines developed and published by the IIAR, and benefits of government membership.
Description	This session will review the mission of IIAR which is largely accomplished through the development of IIAR standards and guidelines. All standards will be reviewed in general, and IIAR 2, the standard for design of ammonia refrigeration systems will be reviewed in more detail. The scope of certain IIAR guidelines will also be examined because they often serve as the basis for end users' development of refrigerant management programs

HAZARDOUS WASTE IDENTIFICATION FUNDAMENTALS (Hazardous Waste 201) M-B2

Monday 1pm to 5pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM NORTHEAST
Seating	249 of 268 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	Samantha Lawler, Trent Smith
Objective	Students will learn the basic steps in the hazardous waste identification process.
Description	Topics include: Hazardous waste laws and regulations, definitions, waste classification flowchart, RCRA and Non-RCRA hazardous waste, RCRA lists of hazardous wastes, Californias list of hazardous wastes, hazardous waste characteristics, acute and extremely hazardous wastes, regulatory and statutory exclusions and exemptions, mixture and derived-from rules, RCRA contained-in policy, scrap metal, and waste classification options for the generator.

UST 101 M-C2

Monday 1pm to 5pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM SOUTH
Seating	344 of 380 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0 ICC: 4.0
Speakers	Nick Umemoto, Xavier Bryant, Hung Pham
Objective	This course will outline recommended steps needed to conduct an underground storage tank inspection in California.
Description	This course is tailored towards beginner UST inspectors and will outline recommended steps to conduct an Underground Storage Tank (UST) inspection. It will cover UST basics and may cover what to expect during the annual monitoring certification annual inspection. Other UST inspections may be covered as well as other basic information.

MASTERING COMMUNICATION M-D3

Monday 1pm to 3pm

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 1/2
Seating	141 of 155 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Jim Delia
Objective	This workshop equips participants with essential skills to improve: listening, speaking clarity, and overcome barriers for effective communication.
Description	This interactive session provides participants with practical strategies to enhance their communication skills, focusing on improving listening, speaking clarity, and overcoming common barriers to effective interaction. Participants will briefly explore the communication process, learn how to better understand others, and express themselves more clearly.

WEIRD OILS (OIL VS PETROLEUM VS NEITHER) M-G2

Monday 1pm to 3pm

Room	GRAND BALLROOM G/H
Seating	104 of 120 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Steven Lichten, Janice Witul, Mark Howard
Objective	To better understand what an APSA petroleum is, what an SPCC oil is, and when they're (likely) not.
Description	Sure, there's a specific APSA definition of 'petroleum', and a performance-oriented Federal SPCC rule definition of 'oil'. But these are often subject to interpretation and it's not always obvious. There's no actual list. We'll use examples to discuss issues like what's a (crude) 'fraction' or 'distillate', synthetics and semi-synthetics, bio-oils, will it cause a sheen. It's a...slippery slope....Bring your examples (SDSs or jugs of the stuff).

EMPLOYEE SAFETY M-J2

Monday 1pm to 5pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	1020 of 1023 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	John Wilson
Objective	To become familiar with or reacquainted with safety procedures in the field related to mindset, emergencies, and safe actions in critical moments.
Description	With the help of professionals throughout California, CBLTAC combined a number of popular classes into a four hour class full of the most important and popular topics we teach involving "tactical" safety. "Employee Safety" covers on-the-job mindset, emergency operations plans (organizational and personal), accountability, safe actions while at the workplace or remote jobsites, operational honesty in communication, contact and cover techniques, preventing stress from the "information void", physiology of emergencies, personal protective equipment and everyday carry items, emergency location applications, natural emergency response, sheltering and lockdown procedures, and after-emergency topics (accountability, health, social media). "Employee Safety" is not the average "safety" class. It is an interesting, exciting look at how to be proactive at ensure you and your employees make it home safer each night.

UNDERSTANDING EPAS TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY M-J4

Monday 1pm to 3pm

Room	GOLD KEY III
Seating	44 of 50 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Abby Burton, Kendall Johnson
Objective	Learn which facilities are required to report to TRI and understand the extensive TRI data available on facility-level releases and waste management.
Description	The course explains which facilities are required to report to EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and presents how to access and understand the facility-level data available on releases of toxic chemicals to air, water, and land, and waste management practices (e.g., treatment, recycling). Participants will learn how to access and use TRI data to better understand a facility's environmental profile. Target audience regulators and industry.

DRONE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INSPECTION IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY M-L2

Monday 1pm to 2pm

Room	GRANDBALLROOM K
Seating	159 of 160 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.0
Speakers	Greg Mann
Objective	This session will provide participants with insight and examples of how drones are being used for inspection and analysis in the oil and gas industry
Description	This course shows how drones are emerging as a leading inspection tool in the oil and gas industry. A drone inspection allows you to pinpoint, identify, record, evaluate, display, and report areas of concern and repair. Using both LiDAR and photogrammetry, drones can create 3D models of areas previously inaccessible to humans. Ultrasonic Thickness (UT) drones have given the ability to obtain steel thickness data in previously inaccessible areas.

HMBP 101 M-M1

Monday 1pm to 3pm

Room	GRAND BALLROOM A-D
Seating	151 of 160 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Melisa Custer, Nicole Bandak
Objective	General overview of Health and Safety Code 6.95 and the Hazardous Material Business Plan requirements.
Description	This course will provide a general overview of the Hazardous Material Business Plan. This course will provide a brief history, a review of the regulations, and an examination of how to determine a hazardous material. And finally, this course will discuss the requirements of the hazardous material business plan.

IMPROVISED NUCLEAR DETONATION CONSIDERATIONS MI2

Monday 1pm to 5pm

Room	GRAND BALLROOM E
Seating	273 of 280 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	Charles Tobias
Objective	The course is designed to provide self-protection and emergency response options for rescue and recovery following a nuclear event.
Description	The course will define a nuclear event and radioactive fallout. The deference between an air verses and ground blast will be identified along with the damage expected ns from both. The FEMA Guidance will be used as a reference as we explore self-protection and emergency response actions to enhance life safety.

IIAR PUBLICATIONS AS RAGAGEP FOR AMMONIA REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS TU-A3

Tuesday 1pm to 3pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM NORTHWEST
Seating	145 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Thomas Rios, Alvin Lal
Objective	This session will review previous and current IIAR publications as RAGAGEP for ammonia refrigeration systems.
Description	This presentation will review IIAR publications and their use as RAGAGEP for ammonia refrigeration systems. The first part of the session will review previous IIAR publications and their use as RAGAGEP. The second portion will cover why IIAR 9-2020 Addendum A-2024 should be used as RAGAGEP for all ammonia refrigeration systems and how to perform an inspection using the standard (IIAR 9) as a checklist.

HAZARDOUS WASTE ACCUMULATION AFTER THE GIR TU-B3

Tuesday 1pm to 3pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM NORTHEAST
Seating	246 of 268 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Scott Lyons
Objective	In this presentation, we will review the requirements for generators accumulating hazardous waste onsite. This includes the rules for satellite accumulation, laboratory accumulation, and 90- and 180-day accumulation. We will highlight changes to the accumulation rules with the adoption of the GIR and touch on other new requirements in the Title 22 hazardous waste regulations.
Description	EPA promulgated the hazardous waste generator improvements rule (GIR) in 2016, in part to make it easier for different types of generators to find the requirements with which they must comply. The rule reorganized the hazardous waste regulations and made significant changes to the requirements for generators accumulating hazardous waste onsite. In 2024, DTSC adopted the mandatory portions of the GIR (i.e., regulations that were more stringent than Californias regulations. The Department also reorganized Californias regulations to align with the federal reorganization. The newly adopted regulations went into effect on July 1, 2024.

SECONDARY CONTAINMENT TESTING AND SINGLE-POINT CONTINUITY TESTING TU-C2

Tuesday 1pm to 2pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM SOUTH
Seating	365 of 380 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.0 ICC: 1.0
Speakers	David Rabb
Objective	This session will provide participants with how hydrocarbons are escaping into the soil surrounding USTs.
Description	The course will explain where the largest hydrocarbons vapors are exiting underground storage tanks and entering the soil vapor space surrounding the UST. Included in this course is discussion of leak data from 100 consecutive test of underground storage tanks and test methods that are certified by the EPA NWGLDE that will detect these leaks. After presenting which components of a UST leaks vapors into the soil and the number of leaks per tank, group discussion will take place.

HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT IN CALIFORNIA TU-D2

Tuesday 1pm to 5pm

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 1/2
Seating	148 of 155 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	Gary Lucks, Matthew McCarron
Objective	Provide a 4-hour primer, overview of the salient requirements for managing hazardous waste under CA law with practice tips to help with compliance.
Description	This Session will describe the hazardous waste regulatory requirements as they relate to hazardous waste compliance activities with a particular focus on hazardous waste generator requirements. This comprehensive course is designed to provide an overview of up-to-date California and federal hazardous waste regulations including emergency response.

HIGH-FREQUENCY MONITORING FOR RAPID ANSWERS TO KEY VI QUESTIONS TU-F3

Tuesday 1pm to 2pm

Room	GOLD KEY I/II
Seating	104 of 108 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.0
Speakers	Mark Kram
Objective	Attendees will learn how automated continuous monitoring of chemical and physical data is used to rapidly answer key vapor intrusion questions.
Description	Is there an exposure exceedance? Is this due to an indoor source or VI? Where are indoor sources and vapor entry pathways located? What can be done to mitigate risk, and did the remedy work? What is the building-specific attenuation factor? Is the vapor recovery system keeping occupants safe during thermal remediation? These critical questions are answered in a single deployment using automated real-time monitoring and web posting of results.

UL OIL & GAS STANDARDS OVERVIEW TU-G4

Tuesday 1pm to 3pm

Room	GRAND BALLROOM G/H
Seating	116 of 120 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Steve Pollock
Objective	To discuss tank manufacturing specifications and performance testing of tanks.
Description	This class discusses how STI/SPFA develops tank manufacturing specifications in compliance with UL performance testing. Discussion will also include an overview by UL on tank and appurtenance standards, including updates for UL142 and UL142A. Research tools will be presented that may assist inspectors and tank owners/operators.

COMMON HAZARDOUS WASTE GENERATOR VIOLATIONS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM TU-H3

Tuesday 1pm to 3pm

Room	GRAND BALLROOM F
Seating	242 of 250 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	April Ranney, Ryan Miya, Michael Palazzola
Objective	This session will provide participants with tools and information that facilities can use to adequately comply with common HWG program violations.
Description	The course is a collaborative discussion and general overview of the most common Hazardous Waste Generator Program violations, the regulatory basis associated with each violation, and some examples of methods/suggestions/tools facilities have used to demonstrate compliance with the applicable regulatory requirement(s).

MERCURY RESPONSE AND CLEANUP TU-I2

Tuesday 1pm to 5pm

Room	GRAND BALLROOM E
Seating	291 of 292 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	Robert Wise
Objective	To provide a comprehensive look at the response to, assessment of and removal of Mercury contamination during an emergency response or cleanup.
Description	This class provides a turn key approach to the response, assessment and cleanup of Mercury. It will provide the attendees of a comprehensive look at the hazards of Mercury. the health and safety aspects of Mercury Response, instrumentation, assessment and cleanup techniques. It is taught by EPA Federal On-Scene Coordinators and START contractors with extensive experience with Mercury response and cleanup.

FUNDAMENTAL BODY LANGUAGE TU-J2

Tuesday 1pm to 5pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	388 of 400 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	John Wilson
Objective	To become familiar with the physiology of critical stress and how it can be translated into pre-attack indicators through kinesic indicators.
Description	This four-hour presentation provides verbal and kinesic tools to safely and effectively accomplish the following: maintain composure, establish rapport, communicate well, establish cooperation, and gain compliance with students, parents, members of the public, peers, and administration. Additionally, the course provides important insight into understanding crisis, predictability, bias, and body language. This presentation will educate attendees on an easy to employ, highly effective, universal communication system (The Wolfson Formula). It helps professionals maintain their own behavior in stressful and critical situations, gain compliance from difficult people, and achieve cooperation where they might not have been able to do so otherwise without the training. The "Wolfson Formula" has been tested and used effectively for over ten years in many situations, including: public interactions, crisis, victim interviews, simple negotiations, consensual encounters, investigations, and other high stakes situations.

EXPLORING CALCUPA.ORG'S LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) TU-L4

Tuesday 1pm to 3pm

Room	GRANDBALLROOM K
Seating	50 of 50 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Tim Snellings, Branden Hendrix
Objective	Explore the benefits of CalCUPA's Learning Management System (LMS) for your professional development to receive CUPA Program education, REHS/ICC CEUs.
Description	The LMS will improve accessibility to training materials for CUPAs/PAs/Industry/Students. Training includes access to all CUPA programs, such as in the HMBP, CalARP, UST, and Hazardous Waste programs. This allows CUPA personnel to access the learning materials, quizzes, and assessments at their own pace and convenience. Come explore the different methods to access over 75 Haz Mat Training Courses and earn CEUs/ICC credits in support of your professional certifications. Don't get left behind as this is the future of your training.