Cylinder Training Programs

Clean Harbors is committed to providing the most cost-effective, comprehensive and beneficial training for our customers.  Our experience-based training provides participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to stay up-to-date with industry standards while maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations.

Classroom instruction is combined with practical exercises that enable participants to demonstrate basic proficiency with acquired skills.  To ensure trainees transfer skills from the course to job performance and safety, the exercises simulate actual jobs or tasks as closely as possible.

Clean Harbor’s Cylinder Services offers the following training courses at our customers’ sites or at our LaPorte, Texas facility.

Compressed Gas Training Courses

• Compressed Gas Safety Awareness Training (CGSA)
• Compressed Gas Emergency Response Training (CGERT)
• Chlorine Gas Emergency Response Training (CGER)

Compressed Gas Safety Awareness Training (CGSA)  read more »

The CGSA course is a one-day (8-hour) class designed by Clean Harbor specifically for commercial, private industry and government agencies.  This awareness level course provides basic training on industrial and specialty gas safe work practices.

Clean Harbor’s CGSA course covers the following topics:

• Gas Properties and Containers
• Department of Transportation Regulations
• Emergency Response Practices
• How to Recognize High Hazard Cylinders
• Disposal Options
• Cylinder movement and Storage
• Select Case Studies

Compressed Gas Emergency Response Training (CGERT)  read more »

The CGERT course is a two-day (16-hour) class designed by Clean Harbors specifically for commercial, private industry, and governmental agencies.  This technical level course provides advanced training on industrial and specialty gas emergency procedures. It features a blend of classroom presentations, case studies, and practical exercises designed to familiarize participants with properties of compressed gases, emergency response practices, and gas-specific emergency response equipment.

Clean Harbor’s CGERT course covers the following topics:

• Gas Properties and Uses
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Gas Flaring
• Silane Water-Burning
• High Hazard Cylinders
• Cylinder Containment Vessels
• Chlorine Emergency Kit “A & B”
• Incident Command
• Over-pressure of Waste Containers
• Select Case Studies

Chlorine Gas Emergency Response Training (CGER)  read more »

The CGER course is a one-day (8-hour) class designed by Clean Harbor specifically for commercial, private industry and government agencies. This awareness level course provides basic training on Chlorine Gas Emergency Operations.

The CGER course features a blend of classroom presentations, case studies, and comprehensive reviews designed to familiarize participants with properties of chlorine gas, emergency response practices, and associated engineering controls.

Clean Harbors’ CGSA course covers the following topics.

• Chlorine Gas Properties & Containers
• Department of Transportation Regulations
• Emergency Response Practices
• Chlorine Emergency Containment Kits (A,B,C) “Hands On”
• PPE Selection & Use
• Emergency Response Practical Exercise