Project Duration: January 2026 to December 2026
Current Team Status
The Petroleum Training Workgroup is finalizing their products for external review.
Team Leaders
Angus Chan, California DTSC
Debra Thoma, South Carolina DES
Program Advisors
Nicole Henderson, Contractor
Taylor Voelkel, ITRC
What’s the Problem?
The workforce is experiencing a change with retirements and new hires increasing. There is a lack of a structured, topic-based curriculum for training and knowledge transfer in the national environmental cleanup workforce.
What are the barriers to overcome?
Numerous training resources exist for professionals working at and managing sites with petroleum contamination; however, they are often fragmented and not tailored to onboarding professionals new to this field. Additional barriers include:
- Knowledge transfer challenges (less mentors)
- Gaps in training materials
How will we overcome the barriers?
The ITRC Workgroup will create a petroleum training resource compendium to better support the evolving environmental workforce in this field. This will include prioritizing concepts and topics that new staff need to learn on petroleum contamination and cleanup.
Note: The project team proposal outlines the initial scope and intended deliverables. The final project scope, deliverables, and content may be adjusted to best meet the needs of ITRC members and the environmental community.