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We trained all day…then this happened.

We trained all day…then this happened.

May 3, 2019

Fires at gas stations are rare, when you consider the large number of UST sites and the number of people who fill up every day. Proper signage, on-site safety equipment, alert UST operators and a smarter public all help to keep disaster away from most fueling operations.

So it came as a shock last week that, not 30 minutes after Ben Thomas of UST Training left a daylong Class A/B UST operator course, he got the call that disaster struck.

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April 29, 2019

Operator Training at Scale

You could save thousands each year on training costs by licensing our Class C UST course.

Have a large number of class C UST operators?
Frustrated with high turnover rates?
Have your own in-house company training program?

Did you know we licensing our course software?  For some UST owners, licensing our Class C UST operator training courseware is a very smart alternative that can save you time, money and effort.

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April 8, 2019

Franklin Podcast Features Ben Thomas

Let’s be Frank, the petroleum industry’s first UST podcast series, recently interviewed with Ben Thomas of UST Training. The Podcast’s host, Franklin Fueling, asked Ben about how he inspires UST operators to respond to ATG alarms, Check it out!

 

March 29, 2019

More Funny Videos from Canary

Humor is a great way to engage users about important ideas and our friends at Canary Compliance have a number of short video clips about why ignored ATG alarms are bad and how remote monitoring can help. We also believe good Class A/B UST operator training can inspire people to be smarter with alarm response.


Check them all out here.

March 29, 2019

Buy, License, Resell or Refresh: Operator Training is Easier Than Ever

Getting started with online learning has never been easier and UST Training has a number of ways to help you purchase, distribute, certify, and track your AB and C operators. We even have a reseller program to help promote our nationally recognized courses and make some income.

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March 29, 2019

Meet the Team

UST Training is growing! In 2019 we’ve been busy getting our existing Class A/B courses re-approved plus we’ve been creating new courses for other Class A/B states. In fact we’ve been so busy we’ve had to grow the team to keep up. And even though we’re online, we are a company with real people who all love providing high quality, inspirational training content.

So….

Meet the team!

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March 28, 2019

Mascott Equipment Now Provides Our Online Class A/B And C UST Operator Training

Our good friends at Mascott Equipment Company in Portland, Oregon now provide links to our online Class A/B and C UST operator training for UST operators in Oregon, Washington Alaska and Idaho. Check it out!

UST Training and Mascott have worked closely together since 2004, when we offered live Class A/B training in Oregon at the Mascott office in downtown Portland. Of late, Mascott has posted our Tank Savvy Minute videos on YouTube. Also check out the new and improved Mascott web page at www.Mascottec.com

 

March 28, 2019

How to Measure the Value of Training?

Or…Why Cheapest Isn’t Always Best

What makes training worth it? How do UST operators choose the best option? Assuming not all training is equal, there are a number of ways to measure the value of training. Is it low cost? The least time spent? The most simple to get through? Or something less tangible?

How do you measure the value of something like UST operator training?

Based on our research, our intuition, and what we actually do, here’s how we measure training value. (Special thanks to the Kirkpatrick Model). Notice #1 is most important and #5, interestingly, is least.

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March 27, 2019

Need Class A/B and C Training in Multiple States?

Are you in multiple states? Need an online, company-wide solution for all your Class A/B and C operators? We can offer you a multi-state discount. Plus free advice about how to best comply with UST training rules in each state.

UST Training did the nation’s first state-approved Class A/B UST operator training course way back in 2002 and we’ve been training non-stop ever since. In fact, since we shifted to mostly online training in 2009, we’ve certified tens of thousands of Class A/B operators from many states and a whopping 550,000 Class C operators from all states.

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March 27, 2019

New UST Training Center Open in Texas by Source University

Need to train your UST operator, inspector or contractor and wish you could see everything that’s buried at a UST site?

Look no further: Our friends at Source have announced the grand opening of their state-of-the-art live training center, located in Arlington, Texas. According to their press release: “The training center includes a replica fuel site that allows visitors to explore fueling infrastructure that most people don’t have the opportunity to see up-close.

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December 10, 2018

Why Training? Avoiding Enforcement Actions for One Thing

This in from Tennessee…where the UST operator training is free, but not necessarily taken.

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (“TDEC”) issued a proposed Order and Assessment (“Order”) to Warren County, Tennessee (“Warren County”), for alleged violation of certain provisions of the Tennessee Code addressing underground storage tanks (“USTs”). See Case No. UST 18-0118.

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December 5, 2018

UST Training by the Numbers

2018 – What an amazing year we had:

  • Our 15th Anniversary: 2003 highlighted the first ever state-approved Class A/B UST course in the nation in Portland, Oregon.
  • Almost 10 years ago: in 2009 we launched the first ever-state approved online Class A/B and C courses for Colorado, then Wisconsin and West Virginia.
  • 6 years ago: in 2012 we joined up with our first LMS, to greatly expand the delivery of our online courses.
  • Today: We offer 54 state- and Territory-specific Class C UST operator training courses.
  • Today: We have 13 state-specific Class A/B UST operator classes. We also link to the remaining states and offer our next best choice for training, even when it’s not us.
  • Today: We offer the nation’s only commercially available Class A/B and C UST operator training courses for Indian Country.
  • An amazing 30,660 individuals received certificates of completion for Class A/B and C UST operators from our first LMS since 2012.
  • Several Thousand individuals received live Class A/B and C certificates issued nationwide in over a dozen states since 2003.
  • Over 500,000 Class C certificates have been issued nationwide from our major license clients and resellers.
  • 7,800 folks are currently subscribed to our UST Training News Newsletter.
  • Almost 38,000 visitors came to our web page since January.
  • Over 1,700 folks received UST Resource Bundles over the last five years.
  • We’ve logged 300,700 total hits on our Tank Savvy Minute videos on YouTube since 2012.

Thanks to each and everyone of you who helped make this a super successful year!

December 3, 2018

This Month’s Spotlight: Oregon Fuels Association

UST Training announces a formal partnership with the Oregon Fuels Association (OFA), creating some great benefits for OFA members, including:

  • 20% discount off all online Oregon Class A/B and Oregon Class C UST operator training,
  • Complimentary annual compliance binders, and
  • Free technical and regulatory advice.

UST Training has been working informally with OFA for many years and has been training UST operators in Oregon since 2003. This agreement makes official our years of working together to help Oregon UST operators be the best they can be.

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November 19, 2018

This month’s Spotlight: CSTAT

Ben Thomas of UST Training has become friends with a Louisville, Kentucky-based company that’s been around for some time: CSTAT Mobile Data Collection. Learn how they can help you with improving your UST inspection process.

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November 14, 2018

Tank Savvy Minute Videos: 307,500 Views and Counting

Another milestone in the history of UST Training’s efforts to bring useful information to the UST community. As of today, we’ve logged over 300,000 views of our Tank Savvy Minute videos on YouTube since 2011. To be specific:

  • 268,497 minutes of watch time
  • 307,507 views
  • 748 subscribers

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October 22, 2018

Franklin Fueling Summary of the EPA Rules

Normally we like to format our own version of things like the new EPA UST rules, but Franklin Fueling Systems did an excellent job creating a nifty below ground map that shows each of the rule changes and points to each change as it relates to various locations on a buried UST system. Plus you can see all the parts underground. It’s very helpful and very visual.

Note that the October 13, 2018 deadline only applies to states that are not EPA-approved and states that also happen to have the same October 13, 2018 deadline. Not sure if the deadline applies to you? Give us a shout.

But meanwhile download this cool brochure.

 

October 19, 2018

Does UST Operator Training Help?

That’s the question that Ben Thomas of UST Training attempted to answer at a two-hour workshop September 10 at the National Tanks Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Ben has been in the UST industry since 1986 and has been training UST operators throughout the US since 2003. Based on personal experience since then he believes, anecdotally, that things are getting better. But is there a way to prove it? Ben set out to find out.

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March 29, 2018

Training Can Save Lives—And Probably Has: A Conversation with Ben Thomas of UST Training

One of our friendly reseller outlets Compli recently interviewed Ben Thomas about the importance of UST training. Check it out! (Originally published March 27, 2018)

Fires. Explosions. Motor vehicle accidents. Leaks. Groundwater contamination.

The potential hazards associated with storing gasoline in underground environments are staggering, and staggeringly vivid. Here on this blog, we’ve written numerous articles about compliance in industries where the risks are largely abstract—that is, financial and litigatory—in nature. By contrast, non-compliance in the world of selling and storing automotive fuel looks like a Michael Bay film.

And yet, despite the perils of storing and managing flammable materials, many employees remain under-informed about their responsibilities under state and federal law. Why?

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March 28, 2018

More Positive Feedback About Our Class C Course

Every once is a while we get a great compliment from folks who really care about USTs and UST training. Here’s one we got today, unsolicited.

I have to congratulate you all on a fantastic course!  I have had an AB Operator Certification in California, Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee, and now Florida.

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