Online Industrial Training – Garden City Ammonia Program

Ammonia Safety Days. Garden City Ammonia Program announces it 3rd Annual Ammonia Safety Day.  It will be in Kansas City, KS: June 17th, 2011.  Call Erica Duvall at 620.271.0037 for more information or to register for the event. You can register for the event by going to this link: www.AmmoniaTraining.com

Topics of Discussion Include:

GCAP’s Hosted Ammonia Safety Day for 2011
Interview with Randy Williams on his thoughts of the importance of Ammonia Safety Days
Interview with operator Daniel Callahan with his thought of the importance of Ammonia Safety Days

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In today’s show Jeremy Williams from Garden City Ammonia Program interviews Eric Girven.  Eric is the NEPA (North Eastern Pennsylvania) RETA President.  He has recently won the prestigious award of being RETA’s chapter president of the year.  Today we discuss his involvement with RETA, IIAR and what he has learned with his 18 years of experience in industrial ammonia refrigeration.

Main Topics to be discussed are:

Where do we as an industry get ammonia operators?
Where can we find ammonia operators?
And once we find the good ones, how do you keep them?
NEPA RETA Chapter

Find information of the NEPA RETA Chapter by emailing to: NEPARETA@gmail.com
Chapter meets at 6:00 PM every 4th Thursday of the Month: September – May
Find information on RETA at www.RETA.com

Contact Eric Girven by emailing to: Eric_Girven@cargill.com
570.746.3000 ext 7784

Contact GCAP at www.AmmoniaTraining.com
ammonia@pld.com
620-271-0037

In today’s show Jeremy Williams from Garden City Ammonia Program interviews Tim Kohrs. Tim is the President of the Northern Plains RETA Chapter and has over 25 years experience in our refrigeration industry. We discuss in depth past Safety Days in Minnesota and also the RETA Chapter.  Tim also adds his tips of advice to new operators coming up in the industry.

Topics Discussed Include:

RETA
Norther Plains RETA Chapter
Video Recording RETA Meetings
Plant Tours
Ammonia Safety Days
Kansas City Ammonia Safety Day
Randy Williams and Craig Ward’s trip to Minnesota

“When it comes to education in the refrigeration industry, Don’t wait to be forced fed, look at the spoon and feed yourself”

Northern Plains Safety Day is May 18th, 2011
Kansas City Safety Day is June 17th, 2011

Contact Tim for more information about the Northern Plains RETA Chapter and Safety Day information

tbkohrs@wcta.net
218.255.2234

Contact Jeremy for more information on the Kansas City Safety Day

ammonia@pld.com
www.AmmoniaTraining.com
620.271.0037

In today’s show Craig Ward from Garden City Ammonia Program interviews  Brian Chapin.  Brian recently authored an article on the three types of ammonia refrigeration operator. We discuss the three archetypes in depth in this episode, they are: “the Ill-Suited” “the Good” and “the Great”

Topics Discussed Include:

RAGAGEP stands for Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practice.
OSHA: OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119:  The employer shall document that equipment complies with recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices.
EPA: EPA 40 CFR 68.73 (d)(2):  Inspection and testing procedures shall follow recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices
Ammonia Operator Training
Industrial Refrigeration Skill Sets
Vocational Industiral Clubs of America  Know as VICA
USA Skills is the new Vica
High School Shop Class Training for mechanics
Industrial Ammonia Operator Schoships
Standard Operating Procedures
Improve efficiency by starting with Process Standardization
Cant measure efficiency without having basic Process Standardization
Three levels of ammonia operators
Hosting a GCAP Onsite training for ammonia operators
RETA Membership
Lean Manufacturing
Kaizen
5S
ISO 9000 standards
Six Sigma
Continuous Improvement
Process Standardization
PSM Compliance
EPA Audits

In today’s show Jeremy Williams and Craig Ward from Garden City Ammonia Program interview  Mike Gannon. Mike is an ammonia refrigeration engineer with Don’s Cold Storage in Northwest Arkansas. Not only is Mike their company engineer, he is highly involved with PSM / RMP and started up the new RETA chapter for Northwest Arkansas “NWA RETA Chapter”.  Many more episodes are coming with information about RETA Chapters and Safety Days for Ammonia Refrigeration Training.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

RETA
Tips on starting a RETA chapter
What happens at a typical RETA meeting
Importance of getting involved
Knowledge is Power
Ammonia Safety Day
Video Recording the RETA Meeting
Linkedin group “Ammonia Refrigeration Operators”
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2320633&trk=anet_ug_grppro

NWA RETA CHAPTER INFO

Location:  Northwest Technical Institute Ammonia Building

604 Bain Street, Springdale, AR 72765-2000

Date: 1/13/2011

Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00PM

RETA’s:  website www.RETA.com

Find RETA Chapters:  http://www.reta.com/chapters/chapterlist2.php

Contact Mike for more information on the NW Arkansas RETA Chapter, Safety Days, or any general refrigeration question.

Work: 479-878-5517
Home: 479-925-7193
Email:  michael.gannon@donscoldstorage.com

Jeremy Williams from “GCAP Garden City Ammonia Program” and Peter Thomas from “CalCA California Controlled Atmosphere” discuss the similarities and differences of Process Safety Management PSM / RMP  EPA’s Risk Management Program / and the CalARP regulations Title 19 for ammonia refrigeration training.

Subject Matters include:

CalARP: California Accidental Release Prevention Program: Title 19
PSM: Process Safety Management:
OSHA 1910.119
RMP: Risk Management Program:
EPA 40.68
LEPC: Local Emergency Planning Committee
CUPA:  Certified Unified Program Agencies
PHA:  Process Hazard Analysis
UMC: Uniform Mechanical Code
IMC: International Mechanical Code
CMC: California Mechanical Code
CalEMA: California Emergency Management Agency
Diffusion tank technology
Atmospheric Diffusion
Emergency Pressure Control System
HAZOP Study: Hazard and Operability Study
what if? checklist

Contact Peter Thomas at
1-559-591-8874
pthomas@calca.com
http://www.calcaonline.com/
http://resourcecompliance.com/

Contact Jeremy Williams at
1-620-271-0037
ammonia@pld.com
http://www.AmmoniaTraining.com/

For information on CalARP Regulations visit
http://www.oes.ca.gov/Operational/OESHome.nsf/PDF/CalARPregs/$file/CalARPregs.pdf

Jeremy Williams from “GCAP Garden City Ammonia Program” and Peter Thomas from “CalCA California Controlled Atmosphere” discuss the similarities and differences of Process Safety Management PSM / RMP  EPA’s Risk Management Program / and the CalARP regulations Title 19 for ammonia refrigeration training.

Subject Matters include:

CalARP: California Accidental Release Prevention Program: Title 19
PSM: Process Safety Management: OSHA 1910.119
RMP: Risk Management Program: EPA 40.68
LEPC: Local Emergency Planning Committee
CUPA:  Certified Unified Program Agencies

Resource Compliance: Software for PSM/RMP Compliance
IIAR: International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration Conference March 27-30 2011
Ammonia Threshold Quantities
PHA:  Process Hazard Analysis

Contact Peter Thomas at
1-559-591-8874
pthomas@calca.com
http://www.calcaonline.com/
http://resourcecompliance.com/

Contact Jeremy Williams at
1-620-271-0037
ammonia@pld.com
http://www.AmmoniaTraining.com/

For information on CalARP Regulations visit
http://www.oes.ca.gov/Operational/OESHome.nsf/PDF/CalARPregs/$file/CalARPregs.pdf

In today’s show we introduce you to Tyler Ramos, one of our instructors here at Garden City Ammonia Program. Tyler shares his experience with us from contractor to manager to lead instructor. We discuss visits to IIAR conventions, ammonia safety days, ammonia refrigeration training, and Tyler’s pointers on how to be a great manager despite your age, and lessons he learned first hand.

Tyler has been working at Garden City Ammonia Program for over a year now and he has years of experience in the field.

If you would like to see more of the faces behind the scenes here at GCAP you can visit the About Us page.

Today Randy Williams and his Ammonia Operator III class join us in the studio. We are calling the National Response Center (NRC) with a fictitious ammonia release scenario for ammonia refrigeration training purposes. also included in today’s show is the class giving their opinions and thoughts on the National Response Center call, ammonia releases, evacuation procedures, OSHA and the EPA’s notification requirements when an ammonia release occurs.

The National Response Center has deployed an On-Line Reporting Tool. This tool provides users of the internet the ability to easily submit incident reports to the NRC. In addition, the tool will transmit an email containing the report number back to the Reporting Party. The on-line HELP feature will assist users in all facets of the tool. We invite you to utilize the NRC On-Line Reporting Tool by clicking here.

Questions and Information to be asked by an Ammonia Refrigeration System for Online-Reporting

Reports taken by the NRC are based on the “Incident Type.” Each Incident Type requires a different subset of information.  The NRC On-Line Reporting Application “HELP” feature describes these areas in detail. All incident types are available for submission via the application.

The NRC will contact the Reporting Party within 30 minutes of receiving an online report to provide an official NRC Report Number. If you have not received an email confirmation from the NRC within 45 minutes of submitting a report, please contact us by phone using our toll free number (800-424-8802).

Joe has worked in the safety industry for 17 years, including six years in the US Navy as a HAZMAT technician and medic, one and a half years as a safety manager at a beef packing plant in West Texas and nine years as a consultant.

Joe Allen started Allen Safety in 2001 in response to the need of hands-on safety training in the food industry.

He received his bachelor’s degree at Oklahoma State University in Fire Protection and Safety.

Joe’s approach to training is very hands-on, practical, and competency-based.

Joe’s motto:

“We believe that everyone has the right to go home safely at
the end of the work day.”

In this episode Joe Allen shares his thoughts about

• Training
• HAZMAT
• Confined Space Entry
• Safety Audits
• Food Production Facilities
• PSM Audits
• Allen Safety

http://www.allensafety.com/