Conference Agenda & Scheduling

SATELLITE WASTE MANAGEMENT M-J1

Monday 8am to 10am

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	1019 of 1023 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Regan Bottomley
Objective	This class will take a deep dive into the satellite accumulation requirements including historical interpretations and guidance from the EPA and DTSC.
Description	The satellite regulations are meant to provide flexibility to generators managing hazardous waste, and yet the rules are quite complex and often subjective. Or are they? In this class we will delve into the details of what a satellite location is, how to manage waste in the area, and historical interpretations for some of the more confusing rules. This class will also highlight the recent Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rules adopted by the DTSC in 2024 which made some significant changes to these rules.

HANDLING & DISPOSING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES M-J3

Monday 8am to 9am

Room	GOLD KEY I/II
Seating	45 of 50 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.0
Speakers	Qatarina Caringal, Jodie Gregory
Objective	This session will provide participants best practices in hazardous waste management to ensure safety, compliance, and environmental protection.
Description	This course covers best practices for managing hazardous waste in healthcare settings, focusing on regulatory compliance, waste classification, and safe disposal methods. Participants will learn strategies for proper segregation, labeling, and storage of hazardous materials like pharmaceutical and chemical waste. The course addresses common challenges and provides practical solutions to enhance safety, protect health, and meet legal requirements.

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.

EXTREME HEAT AND WILDFIRE SMOKE AND OEHHAS CALHEATSCORE TOOL M-J5

Monday 3pm to 5pm

Room	GOLD KEY I/II
Seating	46 of 50 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Karen Riveles, Walker Wieland
Objective	This session will discuss the combined risk to health of both extreme heat and wildfire smoke and demonstrate OEHHAs new CalHeatScore tool.
Description	This course will discuss exposure to both wildfire smoke and extreme heat at the same time and the increased risk for health effects. In addition, we will discuss OEHHAs CalHeatScore which is a tool for individuals, communities, decision makers, policy makers and researchers, seeking up-to-date information about heat risks and resources to keep themselves and their communities safe.

HARNESSING THE POWER OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TU-J1

Tuesday 8am to 12pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	395 of 400 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	John Wilson
Objective	This presentation will provide audience members with an understanding of how a GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) can assist them in many ways.
Description	Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here. Understanding how it words is important, even if you do not personally use it. AI can be a very powerful tool, in that it can conduct tasks that have normally taken hours in mere seconds. It can also streamline work projects and free employees to conduct other tasks. AI is also an extremely powerful and fast research tool. But all of this can come at a cost if not used properly. This class covers it all!

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.

FIELD INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES (F.I.T.) - BASIC W-J1

Wednesday 8am to 12pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	388 of 400 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	John Wilson, Amy Segui
Objective	This presentation covers fundamentals of field interviews and associated techniques
Description	This presentation covers basic legal issues with field interviews and how to conduct interviews when the interview is typically unplanned and informal. This is "Part 1" of a three part series. It is not formal or "interrogative" in nature, but rapport-based, simple, quick, and easy. It is suitable for any professional in a position that they will conduct interviews in the field that could be investigative, witness-based, or criminal-based.

FLUOROSILICIC ACID (FSA) ISSUES AND RESPONSE AT TREATMENT PLANTS W-J3

Wednesday 8am to 10am

Room	GOLD KEY III
Seating	50 of 50 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Nick Vent
Objective	Understanding how to interpret the Safety Data Sheet provided by the vendor, Understanding how to assess the medical risks of FSA during a spill
Description	Hazmat incidents happen unexpectedly. This real event occurred during a delivery and brought out problems with the Safety Data Sheet and dangerous properties of the material not pointed out by the SDS. Discussing an incident of this type in a realistic manner will have you thinking and possibly changing your response and processes. This incident was well controlled and everyone remained safe

CUPA PROGRAMS AND INSPECTIONS AT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS W-J4

Wednesday 10am to 11:30am

Room	GOLD KEY III
Seating	48 of 50 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.5
Speakers	Sean Anderson
Objective	Identify various CUPA programs and issues at international airports; learn safety & security protocols; and understand airport operations and trends.
Description	Inspecting international airports are challenging. They have complex operations. There are numerous establishments requiring permits and inspections. This presentation will discuss the various CUPA programs and inspection methods. In addition, this presentation will discuss the benefits of coordinating with the airport's administrative organization while conducting inspections.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE WORKPLACE W-J2

Wednesday 1pm to 5pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	386 of 400 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	John Wilson, Amy Segui
Objective	This course gives employees at all levels insight, information, and practical tools to address and resolve interpersonal and professional issues.
Description	A revised class from 2024, Conflict Resolution in the Workplace builds on Communication and De-escalation and is a comprehensive course designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively address and resolve conflicts that commonly arise in professional settings. This course explores various types of workplace conflicts along with their root causes and provides practical strategies and techniques to manage and resolve them. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the human dynamics of conflict and the importance of fostering a positive and collaborative work environment. This class is complete with a quick reference guide and practical reference to help guide conflicts to resolution.

LIDS, LEAKS, AND LABELS: HAZARDOUS WASTE COMPLIANCE FOR SQGS W-J5

Wednesday 1pm to 3pm

Room	GOLD KEY III
Seating	44 of 50 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Sande Facinelli, Richard Casagrande
Objective	This session will provide tips and activities for small quantity hazardous waste generators on how to prevent violations and maintain compliance.
Description	This course is intended for people who identify, inspect, ship, manage, store, and dispose of hazardous waste. Although the primary focus will be small quantity generator requirements, participants will receive a general overview, including hands-on activities, on all hazardous waste topics including packaging, marking, labeling, storage, and shipment of hazardous waste, in addition to tips on preventing violations and maintaining compliance.

HAZARDOUS WASTE SAMPLING AND LAB RESULTS INTERPRETATION: PART II W-J6

Wednesday 3pm to 5pm

Room	GOLD KEY III
Seating	36 of 50 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Amineh Aghabali, Karlaina Gipson
Objective	- Select lab tests and interpret results. - Ensure data quality and identify report flags. - Apply QC/QA and chain of custody practices.
Description	Proper hazardous waste sampling and interpretation are essential for enforcement. This course builds on the sampling techniques covered in Part I, focusing on interpreting lab results. Key topics include lab testing selection, data interpretation, addressing report flags, and QA/QC best practices. Real-world case studies will offer insights into managing lab results.

STRESS MANAGEMENT TH-J1

Thursday 8am to 12pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	989 of 1000 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	John Wilson
Objective	This presentation will provide audience member with a number of practical tools to identify and eliminate stress from their lives.
Description	There are different types of stressors working for and against us. "Stress Management" introduces stress in surprising ways to the audience and defines source stresses. Then, using sound psychological concepts, it provides the audience with a model to gauge one's own current life stress level. After that, the audience learns what happens to the body during acute and chronic stress events. After providing an in-depth look at the physiological results of stress, seven proven methods of controlling and reducing stress; both acute and chronic are shared. Also, a psychological model of how stress affects our cognitive processes and behavior is demonstrated. "Stress Management" provides knowledge, and like all other CBL Training and Consulting classes, provides practical tools to overcome the problem. John Wilson provides personal insight into his own battles with professional and personal stress related to 30 years of experience in the military and law enforcement.

INSPECTION READY: MASTER CUPA COMPLIANCE FOR A SMOOTH INSPECTION TH-J4

Thursday 8am to 9:30am

Room	GRAND BALLROOM A-D
Seating	154 of 160 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.5
Speakers	Shelley Ford, Tarig HassabElkarim, Maxa Silva, Kyle McManus, Marissa Lopez
Objective	Participants will learn key steps and best practices to ensure full compliance and readiness for a successful CUPA inspection.
Description	This session will guide participants through the essential steps to prepare for a CUPA inspection, ensuring compliance with local hazardous materials, hazardous waste, and underground storage tank regulations. Attendees will gain insights into common compliance pitfalls, required documentation, and practical tips to maintain ongoing inspection readiness, minimizing the risk of violations and penalties.

INTRODUCTION TO RADIOLOGICAL/NUCLEAR WMD OPERATIONS - AWR-140 TH-J7

Thursday 8am to 2pm

Room	GRANDBALLROOM K
Seating	49 of 50 seats available
Credits	REHS: 6.0
Speakers	William Nalty
Objective	Participants will learn to identify the properties and types of ionizing radiation, including both man-made and natural sources, and understand potential shielding materials. They will become familiar with units of measurement for ionizing radiation and differentiate between radiation exposure and radioactive contamination. Additionally, participants will recognize various radiation doses and their potential health effects.
Description	AWR-140 offers an essential introduction to radiological and nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) operations for first responders and individuals in response or support roles. This course is designed to meet the Awareness and Operations level competencies outlined in NFPA 472, "Standard for Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents." Participants will gain foundational knowledge in threat and incident recognition, protective measures, notifications, and management of the incident area, equipping them with the skills necessary for effective response to radiological and nuclear emergencies.

IN DEPTH MANIFEST TRAINING WITH OPTIONAL CERTIFICATION TH-J8

Thursday 8am to 2pm

Room	LOS ANGELES
Seating	98 of 100 seats available
Credits	REHS: 6.0
Speakers	Regan Bottomley
Objective	In this class you will learn to execute a manifest with applicable RCRA, DTSC & DOT regulations. An optional certification test will be offered.
Description	Sign a manifest? Then you need RCRA, DTSC, and DOT training. This class may certify you to ship hazardous waste and DOT hazardous materials with an optional DOT certification test at the end. We will discuss applicable DOT, RCRA and DTSC regulations pertaining to manifesting hazardous waste and materials. We will focus on executing a manifest, including discrepancies and exception reports and ways to catch mistakes before shipping off site.

FEE ACCOUNTABILITY, SINGLE FEE, AND PENALTY MANAGEMENT TH-J5

Thursday 10am to 12pm

Room	GRAND BALLROOM A-D
Seating	155 of 160 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	John Paine, Carla Bohon
Objective	Attendees will learn elements of a fee accountability program, management of single fee/penalty monies, and hear real-time experiences from CUPAs.
Description	The course will review the fee accountability requirements in Title 27, the establishment of necessary and reasonable costs for program implementation, annual review, and accounting for single fees collected. Single fee and penalty monies management will be presented. CUPA representatives will provide their strategies to successfully increase fees and share their experiences with managing their fee accountability and system fee programs.

BASICS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE FOR INDUSTRY TH-J2

Thursday 1pm to 5pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	998 of 1000 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	Steve Reichow
Objective	Course will provide an overview of Federal and State Hazardous Waste regulations including the CA adoption of the Generator Improvement Rules (GIR).
Description	This course provides an overview of federal and California hazardous waste regulations, including the state's adoption of the Generator Improvement Rules (GIR). It covers the classification, management, and disposal requirements for California hazardous waste generators, addressing standards for both Small Quantity Generators (SQGs) and Large Quantity Generators (LQGs).

HAZMAT AND FIRE CODE VII: THE REUNION TOUR TH-J3

Thursday 1pm to 2:30pm

Room	GOLD KEY I/II
Seating	33 of 40 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.5
Speakers	Janice Van Mullem, Grant Miner
Objective	Participants will learn how Fire Code regulates hazardous materials, how it differs from other regulations, and how to recognize common violations.
Description	Just like any reunion tour, well play the greatest hits: how does fire code regulate hazardous materials, how does it differ from other regulations, and how to recognize common violations. New this year, well look at how GHS labels can give us clues as to fire code classes. Well also analyze an actual incident or two.