Waste And Resource Recovery Facility Workers Manual Training Workshops
Date: 06-Apr-11
The Waste Contractors & Recyclers Association of NSW (WCRA) is pleased to deliver workshops to introduce a Waste & Resource Recovery Facility Workers Manual to benefit waste management facility workers, waste and resource recovery educators and managers from across NSW.
Learning outcomes
- An awareness and understanding of current waste and resource recovery policies, practices and relevant environmental and OH&S legislation; and
- Improved knowledge to assist workers to increase the quality/quantity of materials recovered.
The workshop content will specifically cover issues such as
- Waste classification
- Waste avoidance and resource recovery legislation
- Effective resource recovery
- Site management and operations
- Signage
- Environmental management
- OH&S regulations and practices as it relates to a waste and resource recovery facility
Workshop material: Each participant will be provided with a Waste and Resource Recovery Facility Workers Manual for use in the workplace. This manual contains useful information on the above topics and material fact sheets addressing acceptance criteria, material handling and other relevant information for a range of materials that includes:
- Hazardous material (including asbestos, batteries, gas cylinders, paint, chemicals, fluoro tubes, etc)
- Electronic equipment (including TV's, computers, whitegoods, etc)
- Construction and demolition material
- Garden vegetation
- Paper and cardboard
- Plastic
- Wood
- Glass bottles and jars
- Textiles (eg. clothing, carpets etc.)
- Tyres
- Metals
Each workshop will include either a visit to a site or an address by a site manager from a nearby facility.
Who should attend? Waste Management & Recycling Industry personnel (including Local Government personnel) with responsibility for operations, supervision, sales, compliance, resource recovery, waste educators, charity collections, depot activities, weighbridge, facility workers, etc, at waste management & resource recovery facilities across NSW.
Presented by: Tony Khoury, Executive Director, WCRA
Enrolment fee: $99 (includes GST)
How to Enrol: Download an enrolment form
Please complete the applicant details and send it with your fee to WCRA.
Development of the manual and the delivery of the workshops has been supported by the Department of the Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW (DECCW).
All information on this page provided by WRCA.
