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Reference Projects
Past Performance

Hazardous Materials and Waste Generator Compliance - US Army Garrisons

Our flagship training program, GBK has delivered this program in various iterations to military and federal installations across the US for 30 years. It is designed to deliver mandatory EPA, DOT and OSHA hazardous materials, chemicals and waste training to all personnel within an organization for which it is required. Training covers requirements as dictated by 40CFR262, 29CFR1200, 49CFR172, 40CFR112, specific military regulation (e.g. AR200-1 or equivalent) and much more. 

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Post COVID, this training has evolved from primarily classroom delivery to a more blended approach, bringing in online and webinar elements

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Milestones and deliverables:
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  1. This course delivered at organizations around the US.  Over 1,500,000 individual contact hours provided for this course alone;

  2. Helps maintain regulatory compliance for organizations dealing with hazardous materials and waste and improves environmental performance;

  3. Goes beyond compliance by introducing trainees to concepts of sustainability, eco-efficiency and cost-benefit analysis.

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Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plan Update
USACE Southwest Division, Fort Sill, OK

Under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (regulations found in 40 CFR part 112) facilities subject to the SPCC rule must prepare a plan to prevent the release of oil to the navigable waters of the United States. GBK, leading a team partnership, completed a review and update of the Fort Sill Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plan (SPCCP) and the Installation Spill Contingency Plan (ISCP).  The update included assessing approximately 70 individual industrial-style facilities for inclusion in the plan.  Each facility was mapped using ArcGIS software from available aerial imagery and information recorded from site visits.  The facility descriptions included calculation and analysis of the adequacy of available secondary containment for a worst-case discharge scenario during a 25yr storm event.  Where applicable, the acceptable environmental equivalence was detailed or the facility was flagged for further action. Furthermore, the Installation Spill Contingency Plan was updated and brought into line with requirement.

 

 
 
Milestones and deliverables:

  1. Inspected and assessed 70 facilities subject to the SPCC Rule;

  2. Facility diagrams generated using ArcGIS and conveying all necessary information;

  3. Measurement and calculation of all appropriate secondary containment facilities including conexes, tanker pads and permanent containment pads;

  4. Hard and soft engineering solutions applied where facilities were non-compliant, or environmental equivalence adopted where mitigating circumstances allowed.

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HAZWOPER Training Program
Navy NSWC at White Sands, NM

An ongoing project with our commercial partners and through the Naval Surface Warfare Center, this webinar-hosted training program delivers tailored HAZWOPER instruction to Navy attendees across all four CONUS timezones. Focusing on handling and emergency response actions of Navy-specific facility chemicals, upon completion, trainees are employer-certified to respond defensively to hazardous releases and follow established reporting protocols.

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Milestones and deliverables included:

  1. Provide comprehensive chemical safety and response training in accordance with 29CFR120;

  2. Achieve CONUS-wide competence for client personnel in facility handling and response procedure for specific hazardosu materials and chemicals.

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Hazardous Waste Coordinator Training
US Coast Guard, Atlantic and Pacific Areas

GBK won multiple awards for training of USCG personnel responsible for hazardous and regulated waste handling management. Training included detailed regulatory review of various regulations under 29, 40 and 49CFR and included a more in-depth treatment of DOT shipping placarding, marking and labeling than some of our other federal training programs. 

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Milestones and deliverables included:

  1. Comprehensive chemical safety, handling and response training in accordance with focus on 40CFR262 and 49DOT172 elements;

  2. Instructor-led training at US Coast Guard Stations across the CONUS region plus Alaska (Kodiak Island, Ketchikan) and Hawaii (Honolulu);

  3. Offline 'computer-based' equivalent training program developed and made available for training on USCG cutters at sea in the North Atlantic.

Incident Command System Training Program
Constant & Associates, 'Requested anonymous' Pharmaceuticals, CA

GBK provided instructor support for Incident Command System (ICS) and National Incident Management System (NIMS)training at a major pharmaceutical plant in the Los Angeles metro area. Led by experienced ICS/NIMS fire officers, GBK instructors provided essential context for the chemicals stored on the facility site, including DOT materials classification, 'bleve' threats, shelter-in-place/evac actions depending on type of chemicals released, and confined space entry.

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Milestones and deliverables:
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  1. Completed an ICS training program for management and  supervisor level personnel;

  2. Provided valuable illustration and context of relevant hazardous materials threats within the 'dry context' of ICS procedure;

  3. Significantly improved personnel understanding of hazardous materials threat, management and response concepts following a series of significant chemical incidents at the facility.

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Environmental Officer Training
Installation Management Command - Europe

US DoD facilities and personnel operating in Europe are obligated to perform under the terms of the environmental Final Governing Standards for the country of residence as well as meet the requirement of AER 200-1, and other relevant regulations, Executive Orders, Army policies and technical manuals. For over ten years GBK was tasked with providing on-site and online compliance services supporting the US Army in Europe to achieve this significant undertaking.  GBK developed instructor-led training resources, based on gap analysis findings, to deliver installation compliance training for up to 40hrs at any one location.   Following the success of this training and measurable compliance improvement throughout USAREUR, GBK was tasked with developing and hosting this training as an online, SCORM-compliant delivery. Recurrent services have been provided at 22 installations in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Delivery has been provided by GBKs highly qualified trainers in English, German, French and Italian languages.

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Milestones and deliverables:

  1. Europe-wide assessment of needs and development of targeted, efficient and hands-on multi-media training program 

  2. Project coordination to put an instructor (or instructors) in the field with all necessary equipment and materials at the desired location and time for training delivery in any given country and language;

  3. Delivery of over 100 individual weeks of instructor-led training and an equivalent multi-language online training program distributed across the IMCOM-Europe region

Hazardous Materials and Waste Generator Compliance

Our flagship training program, GBK has delivered this program in various iterations to military and federal installations across the US for 30 years. It is designed to deliver mandatory EPA, DOT and OSHA hazardous materials, chemicals and waste training to all personnel within an organization for which it is required. Training covers requirements as dictated by 40CFR262, 29CFR1200, 49CFR172, 40CFR112, specific military regulation (e.g. AR200-1 or equivalent) and much more. 

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Post COVID, this training has evolved from primarily classroom delivery to a more blended approach, bringing in online and webinar elements

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Milestones and deliverables:
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  1. This course delivered at organizations around the US.  Over 1,500,000 individual contact hours provided for this course alone;

  2. Helps maintain regulatory compliance for organizations dealing with hazardous materials and waste and improves environmental performance;

  3. Goes beyond compliance by introducing trainees to concepts of sustainability, eco-efficiency and cost-benefit analysis.

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Competency Mapping
Safety Skills, for Enana Energy

Getting employees training correctly is difficult. Not only is training often under-assigned and provided too late, it is often over-assigned and not relevant to the employee. How do you assign correct EHS training for a specific job role by simply clicking a button.

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In response to a very specific client problem, that of ensuring employees get exactly the correct training assigned to them, we developed a complete competency linking job task with training requirement. Hazard is the keystone component, the competency mapping process then identifies the many-to many and many-to-one relationships, linking backward to  to job task, and forwards to identified competency, regulatory requirement and training assignment. The result is a tool whereby task or hazard can  be entered and competency to be met, training to be assigned is identified.

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Milestones and deliverables:
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  1. Provided a expansive competency map covering all identified job tasks with thin the company, allowing efficient training assignment;

  2. Developed a complete taxonomy of hazards for company operations;

  3. The map was expanded to provide PPE .

EMS Implementation Workshop
USACE-Baltimore, Fort Drum, NY

Fort Drum was one of many installations to benefit from this 3-day workshop service. Resulted in an installation-wide working procedure to be used as a blueprint for EMS implementation.  Our Implementation Workshop model is transferable to any related management system continues to provide guidance to companies in the private sector adopting  ISO14001, ISO45001 and internal QESH management systems.

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Some milestones and deliverables included:

  1. Feasible targets and objectives determined for implementation;

  2. Training of relevant staff and provided a ‘team-building’ effect;

  3. Identification of activities required to perform aspects and impacts analysis;

  4. Quantization of resource needed to complete system implementation;

  5. Provided a report document with a complete project Gantt chart itemizing deliverables, due dates and required resource for each task to be performed.

Interactive Hazard Mitigation Assessment
Constant & Associates, City of Buena Park, CA

The City of Buena Park required an update of the Hazard Mitigation Plan. GBK formed part of a cross-functional team (CFT) to develop a fully interactive GIS-based tool for emergency managers. The plan allows managers not only to identify type, location and volume of hazardous chemicals within the city boundaries, but also to estimate the extent of gas and vapor releases, and liquid spills.  Furthermore,  the extent of combined releases of chemicals from multiple sites and pipelines following significant earthquake or terrorist attack can be assessed, along with the threat to schools, hospitals and other important amenity.

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Milestones and deliverables:
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  1. Chemical risk was assessed using the US EPA's chemical release modeling tools;

  2. The model provided chemical location and threat magnitude in relation to all critical infrastructure and amenity;

  3. Two-tier action levels were created based flammability and toxicity data to provide worst-case and 'probable' impact zones;

  4. The tool was adopted by the Orange County Fire Department - until this was developed they did not have a means of accurately assessing multi-source chemical release on the community.

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