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2007 OSC Readiness Training Program Evaluation Report • Stranded Waste needs more coverage since it deals with problems involved with avian flu and biothreats. • Terrorism response, EPA’s role and responsibilities. • Use of engineered soils versus use of RFP to acquire local top soils for use in caps and construction. • More discussion of “green construction” techniques. • Vapor intrusion sample design. • WMD response — introduction to Clean Water Act/CONA/WMD decon for OSCs, refresher for experienced OSCs. • Working with your Information Officer/CIC (not all communications at a site are “risk communications”). • Waste water treatment damage assessments. Comments on improving the overall readiness training program General Comments • After 10 years, the folks putting on the training are so good at it, that I would advise them to resist making big changes. It ain’t broke, so don’t try to fix it. However, as the number of attendees at OSC readiness expands (approximately 500 this year), there is a danger of losing the “training by OSCs for OSCs” flavor. It seems that if the training is intended primarily for OSCs, it would be ideal if attendance stabilizes at about 50 percent OSCs. • Focus, focus, focus. That old logo of “for OSCs, by OSC” almost disappeared. • I would also insist that all courses that are chosen by an attendee should be attended. It seems that by the end of the week many of the classes are half empty. This is either because they are boring and cannot keep the attentions of an OSC, or the students are out playing instead of working. All attendees must be made to stay in their assigned classes or take annual leave for the time they are away. • Local responders should be invited to participate. • Allow a session for OSCs ONLY to meet and discuss both near-term and long-range issues. These then could be presented to the Regional Managers/Headquarters meetings for consideration/ deliberations during their meetings. • Consider Gumbo earlier in the week. That would allow plenary speakers to interact with all, plus it would serve as a good ice breaker. • Eliminate the plenary sessions. Many of the sessions were really short and do not actually train people — just an overview. Would be nice if there were actual in-depth training sessions that were a day or a day and a half. • Keep it February. • More time should be scheduled for lunch so that afternoon courses can start on-time without interruption from late courses. • Maybe work towards getting a case study/hot site from each region that 10-15 minutes each. • More interaction with the remedial program. • More networking activities. • Get some highly experienced people that have done it, not just read about it, to share their knowledge with us. The idea of training by OSCs for OSCs is outdated in some areas. We now work in areas that we are not the most knowledgeable or the most experienced. We need to come to speed quickly in the WMD area. B-21 Comments about the Training Program
2007 OSC Readiness Training Program Evaluation Report • When OSC readiness training began in the late 90s, there were mostly OSCs in attendance. Now this trend (situation) has reversed itself with mostly non-OSCs in attendance. I think this is taking away from the point of the readiness training. Comments related to courses • Briefer and more diverse courses. Such as ethics, etc. that OSCs need for certification. • Consolidate all materials on a single Web site for convenient download, rather than hassle of mailing hardcopies/binders. • Eliminate the full-day courses. Most everything can be done in a half-day session and it makes the day much more interesting. • Expand the week to include site visits to chemical/oil sites if they are in the area. • General comment: with the development of a national human capital strategy, and the likely outcome of required OSC training regimen, the recommended changes to the curriculum of OSC readiness training will become rather obvious. I hope that a Health and Safety track for courses will emerge over the next few years. • I attended one course for three-fourths of the time but received no credit because I was called out for a spill. The instructor would not provide the sign up sheet until the end of the class. • I would make the classes more “hands on.” (Three responses) • More hands-on training with advanced chemical classification needs more time allotted for the course. • OSCs are expected to be very knowledgeable about exposure assessment, basic health issues, and remediation. Courses need to be at an appropriate level of sophistication (beyond community responder awareness level) and oriented towards what OSCs do for a living. Several of the courses, while interesting, provide the OSC with little information or tools to use in their work. We need to push for improved high quality state-of-the-art presentations focused on OSC needs and presenters familiar with OSC needs to ensure that they get the training they need and can use. General interest training sessions (i.e., pandemic flu) on a topic should be more focused or limited to less time. • Some of the presentations were old presentations; remove those and add current topics or more current presentations. Comments related to instructors • 8 hour classes should audition instructors. Seriously!!! It’s difficult to attend a class by a series (or one) poor communicator. • Quality of individual speakers and PowerPoints varied dramatically — even within same courses. Would be great to have better control over quality — even offer a “training methodology” course – how to organize course/presentation. Comments on topics to include during future training programs • The potato salad class was interesting, fun and I actually learned something. • Try to include purchase orders for Superfund Technical Assessment & Response Team (START)/ERRS to learn to support OSCs better. • A complete course on what DoD role could be in an INS. Logistics, Security, Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy, etc. What they do for us — water purification, transportation, CSTs, Tech Escort? • Are we ready for the next one? The response call to go to Alaska? Do we understand what it takes? And this is not a WMD issue. Or maybe it is. • Chemical fires. B-22 Comments about the Training Program
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