P3S21- How a Pretreatment Program can assist Businesses with Reopening
Recorded On: 03/08/2021
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Years before the outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic, LASAN’s Pretreatment Program launched the LA Industry initiative to aid economic development and business continuity in LA region., while meeting regulatory compliance objectives and goals. We continue to "go beyond compliance" with the addition of a new business reopening team.
Learning Objectives:
Describe LASAN’s Pretreatment Program’s innovative approach to assist Industry to reach regulatory goals.
Identify how LASAN’s Environmental Compliance Inspectors’ (ECIs) relationships with businesses are being leveraged to build more trust with businesses to not only address compliance issues but offer Reopening Assistance.
Discuss how LASAN is delivering an effective source control program, while assisting industry by making a “shift” or “cultural change” in business practices.
Theodore Higgins
Chief Environmental Compliance Inspector I
City of Los Angeles / LA Sanitation & Environment / Industrial Waste Management Division
Theodore Higgins began his career with the City of Los Angeles LA Sanitation & Environment, Industrial Waste Management Division (IWMD) as an Industrial Waste Inspector, now called Environmental Compliance Inspectors in October 2001. He currently works as a Chief Environmental Compliance Inspector in IWMD’s Fats, Oil & Grease (FOG) Inspection Group. He is responsible for managing an inspection program with an inventory of nearly 10,000 food service establishments (FSEs). As a newly hired inspector, he was part of the implementation of the Fats Oils & Grease (FOG) program. He has worked in other inspection groups with IWMD including significant Industrial Users Inspection Group (SIU) regulating some of the largest companies in Los Angeles including Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, Food Processors, Metal Finishers, etc. as well as Local Industrial Users (LIU) such as Car Washes, Industrial Laundries, Food Processors, etc. After his promotion to Senior Environmental Compliance Inspector, he worked in the Significant Industrial Users group and LASAN’s new RECYCLA Program. In 2017, he was promoted to Chief Environmental Compliance Inspector. His current and past city activities and recognition include serving the division as a “Sector Champion” for the Car Wash Industry where his role is to maintain collaborative partnerships with the Car Wash Business Sector to strategize how to make businesses grow and become more sustainable; representing IWMD by participating in a national focus group on Micro beads/Micro plastics Pollution with the Nation Pollution Prevention Roundtable; IWMD Employee Excellence Award 2012; Emerging Leader recognition by the California Water Environment Association in 2018; Pretreatment, Pollution Prevention & Stormwater (P3S) Person of the Year Award by the LA Basin Section of the CWEA 2019; and representing LASAN on the SCAQMD Environmental Justice Inter-Agency Task Force. Theodore holds Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from Woodbury University.
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