NRMCA’s Environmental Course for the
Ready Mixed Concrete Industry
 

December, 2012

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The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s Environmental Short Course was developed to provide concrete producers a complete agenda of items specific to the concrete industry, taught by instructors with in-depth knowledge of the industry. In this way, the course presents the first real alternative for concrete producers hungry for real “hands-on” information on the rules and regulations that they need to follow. The course, geared for everyone within the concrete industry, from upper management to environmental specialists to plant personnel, has been held all over the country for the past decade. A total of nearly 600 concrete industry personnel have attended the course, who have nearly all agreed that not only did they learn a tremendous amount of information specific to the concrete industry, but that they also plan on recommending others from their company to attend upcoming courses.

During the 2.5 days of the course, topics covered include a wide variety of the issues that concrete producers must be familiar with in today’s complex regulatory world including information on NRMCA’s Green-Star program and prerequisite Green-Star Auditor training. And, a key focus of the course is to present this information in a way that the producer is able to bring back with them to their own particular job conditions. A key component of the course is actual “hands-on” experience, which is gained during a plant exercise at a real working ready mixed concrete plant. During this exercises, course attendees are able to put into action the ideas they’ve heard during the course, making them much better able to utilize course information when back on the job at their own companies.

 

Course Topics Clean Water Act Discharge Permits Stormwater Management Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Solids Management Hazardous Materials Dust Control Recycling Spill Prevention Plans Air Quality Management Noise Management Environmental Auditing Sustainability Environmental Management System Green-Star

The course is taught by two experience and nationally renowned experts in the concrete field; Mr. Doug Ruhlin, Principal Environmental Consultant, Resource Management Associates, Inc. and Mr. Gary Mullings, Senior Vice president of Operations and Compliance, NRMCA.

The 2011 course was held in Orlando, Florida where 21 attendees were certified as Environmental Concrete Professionals. The field exercise was held at CEMEX’s Regency Park Plant in Orlando and thanks goes to Denise Corrales, Environmental Director and Sig Bo, Environmental Manager for all their hard work setting things up for the final day’s exercise.

The next Environmental Short Course is scheduled for December of 2012. If you haven’t taken advantage of this comprehensive training course for the concrete industry, this represents your next chance to get into this quick-to-sellout course. Take advantage of the opportunity – what you can learn could be the difference between environmental compliance and environmental enforcement.