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Department of Transportation (DOT) code (49CFR172.702) requires that any employee involved in the transportation (shipping or receiving) of hazardous materials must be trained and tested in general awareness, site-specific job functions, and transportation security.
8-hour DOT General Awareness Training
Thursday, October 23, 2019
8:00 am – 4:30 pm
University Research Park, Madison WI
REGISTER NOW!
Kestrel’s 8-hour DOT General Awareness Training is applicable for all biotech companies that ship hazardous materials, ship hazardous waste, or prepare shipments of hazardous materials/waste for transport. It teaches all topics required for DOT general awareness training and general security training and will meet the requirements for triennial training certification.
Topics covered include:
Cost: $195/participant; includes lunch and snacks. Participants will receive a certificate of training completion, course guide, and resource collection of DOT support materials.
Training Details
Kestrel is proud to provide our ongoing support for the manufacture, processing, and distribution of safe food. This fall, we look forward to joining our food industry friends and colleagues at a number of events to promote safe and quality food.
The Food Safety Consortium is a premiere event for food safety education and networking. The Consortium offers three days of informational sessions on topics including FSMA final rules, FDA inspections under FSMA, food defense, food recalls, new technology, hiring and retaining sanitation workers, building your food safety team, allergen management, proper use of sanitation chemicals, Prop 64, environmental monitoring, GFSI, and more.
Kestrel will once again be joining FPSA at PROCESS EXPO, the nation’s largest trade show dedicated to bringing the latest technology and integrated solutions to all segments of the food and beverage processing and packaging industry.
SupplySide West is all about the science and strategy around the development of finished products that drive the global business economy. Learn about new trends from over 1,300 exhibitors and 140 hours of educational and conference programming. Don’t miss Kestrel’s Workshop: FSMA & Import Requirements for Food & Supplement Brands.
We look forward to seeing you this fall. Contact us if you are interested in learning more about one of these events or setting up a time to meet!
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Kestrel Management can help.
Kestrel’s Jake Taylor and Liz Hillgren will be available throughout ChemEdge and would enjoy the opportunity to talk further about your company’s challenges—and how we can help. Here’s where you can find us in Louisville:
Environmental auditing is a management tool that can be used to evaluate and monitor the internal performance and compliance of your company with environmental regulations and standards. An audit can also be used to determine the overall effectiveness of an existing system within your company. This interactive session will incorporate NACD member feedback on compliance auditing practices to help you maximize best practices for compliance, efficiency, and value within the industry.
Kestrel has been a long-standing NACD Preferred Compliance Provider and Responsible Distribution Adviser, providing leading EHS and food safety compliance expertise and Responsible Distribution assistance. Whether helping members address compliance needs, managing Responsible Distribution verification requirements, or creating adaptable technology solutions tailored to your business needs, Kestrel will help address your challenges.
We look forward to seeing our clients and friends—both old and new—at ChemEdge in Louisville!
OSHA, EPA, and DOT each have requirements for personnel that are working with chemicals, hazardous waste, or onsite emergency management activities. Join Kestrel Management in Ankeny, Iowa this summer for the following training sessions – designed to help you meet your regulatory training requirements.
Learn to recognize basic hazard classes, how to read labels and use SDS to understand risk, how to use engineering controls or PPE to prevent exposure, basic information addressing field analytical equipment, and how to correctly respond to spills and implement emergency response site plans.Cost: $165/participant
This course will address a variety of complex EPA hazardous waste topics, including completion of Hazardous Waste Determinations, hazardous waste documentation, generator status, evaluation of waste reduction strategies, RCRA hazardous waste coding, and preparation strategies for EPA inspections. Cost: $495/participant
This course is applicable for all companies that ship or prepare shipments of hazardous materials/waste for transport. It covers all topics required for DOT general awareness and security training and will meet the requirements for triennial training certification. Cost: $195/participant
This course is offered at the Technician level and covers broad issues pertaining to hazard recognition at work sites. Participants will learn strategies and protective measures to reduce or eliminate hazards in the work place. Cost: $495/participant
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Kestrel is looking forward to seeing many of our chemical distribution friends and customers at the NACD Central Region Meeting in Chicago June 10-12! It’s always such a great time to gain important insights from the NACD speakers.
Jake Taylor, Kestrel’s Responsible Distribution Adviser, will be available throughout the workshop to talk more about how Kestrel can help chemical distributors more effectively manage management system requirements (e.g., Responsible Distribution, ISO 9001) and ongoing EHS&S and Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) compliance obligations.
Plus, don’t forget the featured NACD Regulatory Workshop: Overview of FSMA for Chemical Distributors following the Central Region Meeting on June 12-13. Kestrel Food Safety Principal Roberto Bellavia will be discussing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and how chemical distributors can build a food safety plan to meet FSMA requirements.
Produced by the Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA), PROCESS EXPO is the nation’s largest trade show dedicated to bringing the latest technology and integrated solutions to all segments of the food and beverage processing and packaging industry.
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PROCESS EXPO
October 8-11, 2019
McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois
Kestrel will once again be joining FPSA at the PROCESS EXPO to offer supplemental food safety training courses from Monday, October 7 – Wednesday, October, 9. The FDA training helps the industry, particularly small- and medium-sized companies, to comply with the new preventive controls rules.
HACCP Training HACCP is a systematic preventive approach to food safety from biological, chemical and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe and designs measures to reduce these risks to a safe level. This is a certified 2-day course based on Global Codex and GFSI requirements.
FSVP Training This 2-day course will provide participants with the knowledge to implement the requirements of the FSVP for Importers of Food for Humans and Animals regulation of FDA’s FSMA. The FSVP course meets FSMA compliance, and FPSA certificates will be issued upon successful completion of the course.
Preventive Controls for Animal Food This 2.5-day course is being made available in response to FDA’s final rule requiring covered animal food facilities to establish and implement an animal food safety system that includes an analysis of hazards and implementation of risk-based preventive controls. Completing this course meets FSMA requirements for a PSQI.
Read the full course descriptions online.
Complete your PROCESS EXPO registration to book your food safety training courses today!
Learn about best practices and downfalls since the introduction of FSMA FSVP and updates regarding VQIP from Kestrel’s food safety experts and DNV GL, a leading certification body.
Complimentary Webinar
FSMA, FSVP & VQIP: What Have We Learned So Far?
Friday, May 17, 2019
9:00 am – 10:30 am CT
Register now!
Importing food & beverages into the United States can be complex and costly. The Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) Rule requires importers to verify that their foreign suppliers of food for human and animal consumption meet applicable FDA safety standards. FDA’s Voluntary Qualified Importer Program (VQIP) (TPP) established by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) provides expedited review and importation of human and animal foods into the United States for approved applicants who achieve and maintain a high level of control over the safety and security of their supply chains.
This complimentary webinar will cover the following topics:
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Kestrel is pleased to announce our partnership with Measure UAS, Inc. (Measure) to provide drone program management and advisory services to companies with commercial drone operations. The expanded services created through this relationship will offer a more comprehensive array of solutions to companies who currently are or may be interested in using drones to enhance their core business operations.
Drone (UAS) technology is evolving rapidly, but the industry is in its early stages. That creates many questions regarding regulations, equipment, applicability, and how drones can best help meet an organization’s specific goals. Companies are faced with the challenge of scaling a safe, compliant, and effective drone program. Lack of planning will (at best) add up to a short-lived drone program or (at worst) cause the organization undue risk or injury.
“Kestrel and Measure are working together to help companies better select and implement enterprise technology to reduce operational risk and to meet both industry and aviation-specific mandates,” explains Kestrel Principal Jack Anderson “We help effectively integrate UAS programs into core business processes and systems to bring the most value to the organization.”
This strategic alliance will allow organizations with existing or planned drone programs to leverage the collective resources and expertise of the Measure and Kestrel teams, and to access a more comprehensive set of solutions to help ensure the drone program’s success. Together, Kestrel and Measure offer the following products and services:
“Kestrel’s approach to drone program management and overall operational risk management complements Measure’s portfolio of drone-related services and software,” explains Jesse Stepler, Chief Strategy Officer of Measure. “Together, we have the ability to bring enterprise drone programs to scale in a way that will help organizations reduce risk, improve worker safety, and remain compliant.”
About Measure UAS, Inc.
Measure is an aerial intelligence company that enables enterprises to realize the transformative benefits of drone technology. Through our comprehensive software solution, specialized data engineering team, and highly skilled flight operations, we help corporations deploy drones at scale, saving thousands of hazardous man-hours and providing millions of dollars in operational benefits. More information on the company can be found at https://www.measure.com/.
About Kestrel’s UAS Program Services
Since 1998, Kestrel has been delivering solutions to help companies reduce operational risks, assure regulatory compliance, and implement reliable management systems for continual improvement. Some of the highest value consulting we provide is in project planning and strategy development, particularly in the sequencing of compliance tasks and management systems development. We combine our EHS expertise with our experience developing and managing one of the largest industrial UAS programs in the U.S. to help organizations apply drones to meet company objectives, develop the systems required to ensure compliance, and minimize operational risk. More information can be found at https://kestrelmanagement.com/kestrel-drone-program-management/.
Join NACD and Kestrel on Thursday, April 4 at 12:00 p.m. (EDT) for a webinar on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). During this webinar, Kestrel’s Roberto Bellavia, Principal in Food Safety Compliance, will provide an overview of FSMA rules applicable to the chemical ingredients industry, focusing on the receiving, storage, production, blending, and transportation of these products. Register here.
This webinar is a precursor to an upcoming in-person NACD regulatory workshop during which Kestrel will cover the FSMA regulations in-depth. This workshop will take place on June 12-13 in Oak Brook, Illinois, immediately following the Central Region Meeting. Registration for the workshop is forthcoming.
IFS Focus Day Returns this Spring!
April 24, 2019 9:30 am – 3:00 pm
Delta Hotels Burnaby | 4331 Dominion St. | Firenze Room
Burnaby, BC V5G 1C7
Make plans to join IFS North America representatives Pius Gasser and Cheryl Sullivan; Bulldog Bag’s Alan Kenney; and AIB’s Siarl Dixon for our complimentary IFS Focus Day.
Agenda:
9:30 am: Registration
10:00 am: Welcome
10:30 am: Why IFS
11:00 am: The Certification Experience
11:15 am: FSMA Compliance Update
Noon: Lunch
12:45 pm: Risk Assessment
1:45 pm: IFS in the Eyes of a Certification Body (CB)
2:15 pm: IFS in North America
2:30 pm: Discussion
3:00 pm: Adjourn
To register, email sullivan@ifs-certification.com
Note: Space is limited for this FREE event!
Sponsored by Kestrel Management | GCP Consulting | AIB International
