The United States EPA enforces regulations intended to reduce pollution in the United States.

These regulations include the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which creates a framework for the proper management of solid waste, both hazardous and non-hazardous; oil spills prevention and preparedness regulations, including the Spill Prevention Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rules and the Facility Response Plan (FRP) rule; and stormwater rules.

In this article, we’ll provide an overview of those rules, provide some additional information, and make some online environmental training suggestions for you as well.

The EPA training and environmental training online course samples used to illustrate the EPA regulations all come from our Environment, Health, and Safety online training library.
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Looking to buy an online safety training solution? Maybe some online courses, maybe a learning management system (LMS), or maybe both?

But maybe also a little….intimidated by all the jargon and special terms?

Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. We’ve put together a handy glossary of terms you may run into while you’re researching and evaluating online safety training.

We’ve probably included more words than any one person or company will need to look up, but what’s the harm of having extras? On the flip-side, please use the comments section at the bottom of this article if you think we’ve missed something.

Hope you find this helpful!

2 NOTES: You may also find this free, on-demand webinar about Comparing Online Safety Training Solutions helpful, and we’ve included a free Online Safety Training Buyer’s Guide Checklist you can download from the bottom of this article.

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Hello readers, viewers, and listeners!

We held a live webinar recently and wanted to make it available in a recorded, on-demand version for you.

You can view our free, recorded Evaluating Online Safety Training webinar at our Webinars page. 

The webinar lasts for just about an hour and covers the following:

1. What is online safety training?
2. Why consider online safety training?
3. Evaluating online safety training providers
4. Evaluating online safety training courses
5. Evaluating online safety training management systems

In addition, we’ve provided links below so you can:

1. Download the presentation in PDF format
2. Download a free Online Safety Training Buyer’s Guide Checklist
3. View a bunch of other related resources as well

You may also find our article on Evaluating Online Safety Training Solutions helpful.

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EHS stands for Environment, Health, and Safety. It’s a general term used to refer to laws, rules, regulations, professions, programs, and workplace efforts to protect the health and safety of employees and the public as well as the environment from hazards associated with the workplace. You can also think of it as what makes up the profession of occupational safety and health professionals (plus their good friends in the Environmental department).

Although EHS is a common way to abbreviate this, you’ll also see HSE or other versions. And sometimes you’ll see the addition of a “Q” for Quality, as in EHSQ.

We’ll learn a little more about EHS in this article, including who’s responsible for it and some tools used in the field.

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If your company is thinking of getting some online safety training, it would be logical to want to know more about it before you plunk down a bunch of money.

This is the first article in a series that will help you answer some common questions and help you find the type of online safety training system that’s best for your company.

In this article, we’ll look at two common types of online safety training: on-demand online safety training and online safety training that’s administered using learning management systems (LMSs).

Once you’re done with this article, you may also be interested in a second article, Pros and Cons of Different Types of Online Safety Training Solutions.

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Want to know how to design, create, and deliver better safety training at work? Effective safety training? The kind of safety training that has a real effect on incident rates, driving them down? That contributes to a healthier, safer work environment?

We’ve got a pretty simple, six-step formula for success for you to follow in this article. Follow and put these six steps at work with your own safety training and you’ll watch your safety training program become more effective right before your own eyes. And as a result, your safety and health program will benefit as well. And that’s what we all want, right?

We’ve explained each step in some detail below. Enough to get started if that’s all you’re looking for. But we’ve also included links to more complete articles on the six different steps if you really want to dive deep.

That’s not all, though. We’ve also included a free Guide to Effective Safety Training download for you.

Now, let’s see how you can create more effective safety training at your work.

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Potential customers often ask if we can provide reasons to add online safety training to their current workforce safety training program.

It’s a good question. Why just jump into a new thing if you don’t know if it will benefit your safety program or what those benefits will be? Exactly how will adding online safety training help employees, managers, and the business as a whole?

In this article, we’ve laid out 8 solid reasons to add online safety training at work. This should show you how you’ll benefit. Our list will include some things you might have thought of already, plus some things you may not have thought of.

If you finish this article and decide you want to explore this issue further, check out some of the following resources as well:

• 18 Online Safety Training Myths Debunked
• Online Safety Training Glossary
• Evaluating Online Safety Training: Six Steps in Your Search 
• Online Safety Training Buyer’s Guide
• Comparing Online Safety Training Solutions Recorded Webinar 
• How to Pitch Your Boss on Online Safety Training
• The Convergence Training Online Safety Training Course Library
• The Convergence Training Enterprise LMS for Safety Training Management 

And let us know if you’d like to set up a preview or demo.

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Here’s another article in our series about occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS).

In this article, we’re going to explain what to do once you’ve implemented your OHSMS, it’s in operation, and you want to monitor it, evaluate the performance, and make any corrections necessary to improve results.

As a reminder, this entire series is based on ANSI Z10 (2012), the ANSI/ASSE standard on occupational health and safety management systems. We encourage you to buy a copy, which you can do here.

And with that, let’s get started.

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In this article, we’re going to walk you through six steps of evaluating different online safety training solutions–this includes online safety training courses, online safety management management systems (typically known as a learning management system or LMS), mobile apps and mobile safety training, and the online safety training providers.

You can use this as a roadmap for moving through the evaluation and purchasing process. Kind of like an online safety training buyer’s guide.

So if you know you want to make the investment in online safety training at work, and you just need some help figuring out which system to go with, here’s your one-stop-shopping guide.

If you’d rather not read all this, we have much of the same information for you in this recorded webinar on evaluating online safety training.

And, we’ve also got a free online safety training buyer’s guide checklist for you that covers some of the same ground as the article below.

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