Environmental/Occupational Training Services
DPRA proposes a Custom Course offering. The following is a description of the service and an explanation of how it supports the Environmental Service needs of government agencies.
Custom Courses
Government agencies often require advanced training that is specifically tailored to their environmental problems or unique organizational needs. While these requirements may be met by simply modifying a standard training course, a better, more effective solution is to develop a curriculum that fits an agency's training requirements.
DPRA's custom course services are designed to help agencies meet these training needs. Our designers and trainers will work with the client to deliver training based on Instructional System Design (ISD) principles. Our staff has extensive experience with this systematic five-phase development process. We have helped many clients translate training needs into learning objectives that served as the basis for the design, development, and implementation of training that resulted in competent job performance.
DPRA views the development of a training package as an interactive and collaborative activity and involves the client in each development phase to ensure complete integration of training, organizational, and environmental needs. Our designers use the evaluation information collected in the fifth phase of the ISD process to modify a course for future audiences to ensure that the curriculum stays aligned with performance objectives.
DPRA has extensive environmental training experience in a broad range of areas including environmental information systems (e.g, EPA's RCRA Info), RCRA corrective action, state programs, environmental compliance auditing, public outreach, solid waste planning and implementation, and ISO environmental management systems.
In addition, we provide training in a number of specific environmental media. These include environmental incidents and spill response, waste waster and water recycling, transportation of hazardous materials and dangerous goods, occupational health and safety, waste minimization and pollution prevention, hazardous and non-hazardous waste management, and above-ground and underground storage tank management.
Currently, DPRA is implementing an environmental training program for Canadian National Railway (CNR) offices in the U.S. and Canada. The company's operational, supervisory, and managerial personnel are completing a comprehensive environmental performance program as part of CNR's Environmental Management Policy and Procedures initiative.
The training program involves an introduction to environmental incidents and spill response techniques, hazardous waste management, and wastewater treatment and storage tank management. It includes an assessment of incident scenarios, a review of potential impacts to the environment, and identification of health and safety concerns.