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Environmental Training:
How to Get Your Team Onboard
Most of the facilities
we enter as consultants
have pretty strict envi-
ronmental standards that the facility
must uphold. The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) does
NOT play around when it comes
to industrial plants. Generally, most
of these plants are on the edge of
towns, though some are in a rural
setting. Power generation facilities,
for example, are usually located near
a river or lake and must abide by very
strict rules and regulations set by the
EPA. Every facility has to dispose of
its manufacturing byproduct, debris,
disposables and waste properly or risk
being shut down. Proper, thorough
environmental training is a large part
of ensuring that these rules and regu-
lations are met.
Scheduling
Training in these facilities,
no matter the industry, is usually
death-by-PowerPoint style training.
Pulling the techs out of the field
when they have a thousand things
going on and making them sit
through a two-hour PowerPoint
presentation and then pulling one of
them out every five minutes to "fight
a fire" is probably the worst way to
do training. I understand that time
is nearly impossible to carve out in
today's industry. Since the pandemic,
I have yet to go to a facility that isn't
running as lean as possible: each
team member is wearing multiple
hats and is busier than they have ever
Paul Farless
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Noria Corporation
ENERGY CONSERVATION, HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT
Factor: E4M
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Factor:
E4M — Energy
Conservation, Health &
Environmental Training
Level:
Management &
Training (M)
Stage:
Energy Conservation,
Health & Environment
About:
To implement lubrication
excellence, all staff
should receive training on
the impact of lubricants
on the environment,
ecological disposal
options and strategies to
reduce consumption and
environmental impact.
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