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BASIC INTERVIEWING SKILLS M-E1

Monday 8am to 10am

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 3/4
Seating	92 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0 ICC: 2.0
Speakers	Lisa Brown, Jose Parra Bernal
Objective	To assist inspectors in developing interviewing skills needed to perform inspections, also tips on dealing with difficult people.
Description	The session will cover how to prepare for asking people questions to gain information necessary to complete an inspection and how to conduct interviews. There will also be discussion of dealing with difficult people.
Presentation	Basic Interviewing Skills

REPORT WRITING M-E2

Monday 10am to 12pm

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 3/4
Seating	79 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Kelly Robertson
Objective	This session will describe best practices for report writing for CUPA inspectors to ensure successful enforcement.
Description	Report Writing is a critical skill for CUPA inspectors. This session will go into details about why documentation is so important when pursuing an enforcement action. Attendees will get a sense of what is required for successful AEO's and District Attorney referrals.
Presentation	Report Writing

EMPLOYEE SAFETY M-E3

Monday 1pm to 5pm

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 3/4
Seating	106 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	John Wilson
Objective	With the help of professionals throughout California, CBLTAC combined several popular classes into a four-hour class full of the most important and popular topics we teach involving field safety.
Description	"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 (show-and-tell), emergency location smartphone 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.

DTSC CLEANING UP VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES DISCOVERY & ENFORCEMENT TU-E1

Tuesday 10am to 12pm

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 3/4
Seating	104 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0 ICC: 2.0
Speakers	Rafat Abbasi
Objective	Update on DTSCs implementation of the SB 158 provision for discovery and enforcement of potential releases in vulnerable communities.
Description	This course is an overview of CalEPA DTSC's development and implementation of the SB 158 Cleaning Up Vulnerable Communities Initiative Discovery & Enforcement Program. Overlapping processes that must take place during program development and implementation include pre-screening, contract development, tribal consultation, info gathering, enforcement, liens, penalty assessment, and cost recovery drawing upon a number of State data sources.

COMMUNICATION AND DE-ESCALATION TU-E2

Tuesday 1pm to 5pm

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 3/4
Seating	67 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	John Wilson
Objective	How to effectively communicate in difficult situations, keep situations from escalating, and how to de-escalate once an interaction becomes difficult.
Description	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. This course has been taught to 1,000s of professionals and is quickly becoming a gold standard in not only understanding and employing communication and de-escalation skills, but keeping situations from becoming escalated. Attendees will leave with a pocket-sized quick reference guide and access to small poster-style reference.

USING REAL RAILCAR RESPONSE TO SEE THE VALUE OF RESEARCH/PLANNING TU-I2

Tuesday 1pm to 5pm

Room	GRAND BALLROOM E
Seating	162 of 175 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	Nick Vent, Tiffany Chapman, Lisa Mitchell
Objective	Become Familiar with various FREE references and hands on usage during a railcar incident Students will do the research and make the decisions
Description	Recently a railcar of Styrene in Riverside county reacted and caused the evacuation of a community and freeway closure. What were the concerns and risks that had to be overcome. How were those decisions made in real time and what would YOU have done. This is still an active case but we can learn from it without ruining any potential court case preparation. We will also discuss railcar construction and how to read a railroad consist.

ENFORCEMENT CASE REFERRALS W-E1

Wednesday 8am to 10am

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 3/4
Seating	103 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Lisa Brown, Sarah Orndorff
Objective	To improve case referrals for enforcement matters (administrative, civil or criminal)
Description	Description of session: Discussion of what should be included in any type of enforcement case referral, case presentation and working with prosecutors.
Presentation	Enforcement Case Referrals

CASE STUDY - ILLEGAL DISPOSAL AND HW EXPLOSION W-E2

Wednesday 10am to 11am

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 3/4
Seating	41 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.0
Speakers	Arleen Gurfield, Kelly Robertson
Objective	This session will describe two case studies from AEO's prepared in San Diego County related to hazardous waste.
Description	This course will discuss two AEO cases successfully pursued by San Diego County CUPA. First, we will discuss the illegal disposal of flammable, toxic, staining waste at a group of major hospitals in San Diego County. Second, we will describe an explosion at a major Universitys hazardous waste accumulation area, where an employee was seriously injured. The University was accumulating hazardous waste too long, and did not report the release.

The CUPA AEO PROCESS AND MULTI-AGENCY COLLABORATION W-E3

Wednesday 1pm to 3pm

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 3/4
Seating	68 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Dennis Karidis, Heather Tanner, , David Irey
Objective	Attendees will be presented with an enforcement action process taken by the CUPA and also a look into with how various agencies collaborate to address illegal dumping in our neighborhoods.
Description	This is a two-part case study. The first session is a case study presented by Sacramento County about the enforcement action against an unregulated facility for HM and HW programs. The second session is presented by DTSC on a multijurisdictional approach to address illegal dumping into a stream running through County property.

CASE STUDY- ILLEGAL DUMPING AT APARTMENT COMPLEX W-E4

Wednesday 3pm to 5pm

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 3/4
Seating	67 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	William Fallon
Objective	The participants will gain understanding of the multijurisdictional approach and collaboration by the various Orange County agencies.
Description	This session will present a case study involving an illegal dumping of chemicals at a residential apartment complex. The case study will detail the emergency response, the law enforcement investigation that led to the identification of the perpetrator, and the eventual felony criminal filing and prosecution. This case study will highlight the collaboration and teamwork between the CUPA and law enforcement that resulted in a successful criminal

CLEAN UP TRACK ROUND TABLE MEETING (GOV'T ONLY) W-F4

Wednesday 3pm to 5pm

Room	LA/LA JOLLA
Seating	28 of 50 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Sheryl Baldwin
Objective	Clean Up Track Round Table Meeting (Gov't Only)
Description	Clean Up Track Round Table Meeting (Gov't Only)

ROAD MAP TO EVIDENCE COLLECTION TH-E1

Thursday 8am to 12pm

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 3/4
Seating	107 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	Jeremy Davis
Objective	Teach basic theories and applications of evidence collection. Identify and describe evidence legalities. Discuss proper evidence storage.
Description	Road Map to Evidence is a course designed for members of the fire service and law enforcement charged with investigation and enforcement duties. This course provides the participants with an introduction and comprehensive overview of evidence covering areas of, collection, chain of evidence, storage of evidence and the legalities associated with evidence within the court system.
Presentation	Roadmap to Evidence Collection

CALARP TECHNICAL GROUP (GOV'T ONLY) TH-O1

Thursday 10am to 12pm

Room	ELITE
Seating	16 of 35 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Alvin Lal
Objective	CalARP Technical Group (Gov't Only)
Description	CalARP Technical Group (Gov't Only)

CASE STUDIES HAZARDOUS WASTE ENFORCEMENT TH-E2

Thursday 1pm to 3pm

Room	ORANGE COUNTY BALLROOM 3/4
Seating	45 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Fariba Khaledan, Michael Whitehead,
Objective	This session will present two case studies of illegal hazardous waste disposal.
Description	The details of each case from the initial investigation to compliance and final Administrative Enforcement Order will be discussed and shared with regulators to provide an overview of the enforcement process. Regulators only.