Area Source NESHAP Certified Painter Training

Request for training and information regarding fees and availability can be made by email or by phone at (650) 688-7060.

Overview

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 40 CFR Part 63 has published:

• Subpart HHHHHH—National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP): Paint Stripping and Miscellaneous Surface Coating Operations at Area Sources
• Subpart XXXXXX - National Emission Standards (NESHAP) for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Area Source Standards for Nine Metal Fabrication and Finishing Source Categories

Both rules require painters to be certified through hands-on and classroom training before they are permitted to apply surface coatings to parts. Certification training requirements of each rule are similar, but compliance dates differ. (For exact wording from the rules click direct quotations.)

On-site and classroom painter training that meets the requirements of the Area Source NESHAPs is provided by Eric Guyer of Exponent, Inc.

Who Should Attend?

Environmental managers, paint facility engineers, supervisors, and all painters.

Topics to be Covered

The agenda can be custom tailored to your facility but will, in general, include the following:

• One and half-day classroom instruction plus one and half-day hands-on training
• Can be provided as painter training and/or train-the-trainer
• Detailed workbooks for each painter will be provided
• Evaluation sheets documenting training and proficiency with various equipment as part of hands-on training
• Final examination (70% required to obtain certification)
• Workbooks, evaluation sheets, and examinations can be provided to certified trainers who will later want to certify painters

Faculty Bios

Eric Guyer, Ph.D., P.E.
Dr. Eric P. Guyer is a Senior Managing Engineer at Exponent and is based in Menlo Park, CA.  His areas of expertise include materials science, paints and protective coatings, and the fracture mechanics and fatigue of bulk materials as well as thin-films.  Dr. Guyer has specific experience in failure analysis investigations of semiconductor materials and devices used for microelectronic, biomedical, or optical system applications including those in which the materials or devices are subjected to harsh environmental conditions (e.g. chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), or the human body).  He is also an expert in the area of mechanical testing of films and protective coatings (e.g. interfacial adhesion, cohesion, fatigue, subcritical crack growth / stress corrosion cracking) as well as materials characterization techniques used for complex thin-film device structures.   Dr. Guyer conducts failure analysis investigations and engineering evaluations of various paint and protective coating systems applied to a wide variety of steel, aluminum, plastic, brick and stucco structures such as railings, windows, fences, buildings as well as consumer products such as remote controls.  He has experience with powder coatings as well as solvent and waterborne liquid paints..

For cost and availability, contact Eric Guyer at (650) 688-7060 or via email.