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Public Outreach and Education

Every successful environmental management program succeeds in part because of two key components: training and education. The Office of Environmental Quality (OEQ) is one of several City departments providing training and outreach opportunities on environmentally related topics.

OEQ provided training to all affected City departments on the newly adopted City Administrative Directives (AD 3-73 and AD 3-74) that focus on reporting spills and other incidents. In three months (October, November, and December 2006), over 2,800 City employees were exposed to the importance of protecting storm water from spills and how the City expects employees to respond to environmental incidents. OEQ continues to offer this training course to City departments on an “as needed” basis, primarily for new field employees.

To assist City department environmental staff with environmental and health and safety worker training, OEQ teamed up with Human Resources to develop one day of seminars in City Hall. With a variety of seminars starting every hour on the hour from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., City employees were exposed to everything from traffic safety, blood-borne pathogens, and property inspections to storm water inspections, waste management, and pollution prevention. The seminars were delivered by City staff and outside experts from agencies such as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. More than 800 City employees participated in this daylong training.

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