New industrial ammonia refrigeration training by GCAP

GCAP offers comprehensive trainings that teach how to operate and maintain ammonia refrigeration systems at a maximum safety and performance level. These training seminars specially target maintenance mechanics, supervisors, operating engineers, plant engineers, facilities managers, PSM coordinators and plant management at all level.

All courses are taught by professional experts with hands-on equipment and live training material. GCAP is currently expanding its premises for the 3^rd time with another 15,000 squares foot facility and an additional engine room with 14 compressors.

GCAP has just finished rewriting their PSM (Process Safety Management) and NEP (National Emphasis Program) courses.

PSM - Most PSM courses rely on the IIAR’s excellent “Guide to the Implementation of Process Safety Management for Ammonia Refrigeration” first published in 1994, the subsequent “Process Safety Management Guidelines” in 1998 and its companion “Risk Management Guidelines.” While GCAP believes these books provided an excellent resource for their time, PSM implementation has continued to evolve rapidly in the years since they were published and they no longer reflect the “state of the art”. The new PSM course offered exclusively by GCAP is a re-envisioning of Process Safety Management implementation based on the experiences of the Ammonia refrigeration industry over the past 15+ years, the guidance from the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), the NEP guidance from OSHA and the over 8,000 pages of OSHA citations GCAP has amassed from Freedom of Information requests.

NEP – OSHA’s National Emphasis Program for Chemical Facilities evolved in part from the consistent deficiencies found in OSHA’s PSM NEP on refineries. After a 2 year pilot program in 3 regions, OSHA has now rolled out their Chemical NEP inspections nation-wide targeting Ammonia Refrigeration Systems. In anticipation of this massive change in PSM implementation compliance auditing, GCAP designed this course around the lessons learned in the pilot program. Currently, GCAP is the only training organisation in the world offering a 40-hours course specifically on how to implement PSM to the modern requirements under the NEP compliance initiatives.

GCAP new online training seminars

GCAP has launched a new website dedicated to industrial ammonia refrigeration online training for operators worldwide.

The website, GcapCoolCast.com, presents the latest news, information and trends about the industry and 30-minutes free downloadable podcasts for each GCAP training sessions.

2012 Ammonia Refrigeration training dates

Operator level 1	Operator level 2	Operator 1 and 2	Operator level 3
9-12 Jan	16-19 Jan	2-8 Mar	23-26 Jan
23-26 Jan	13-16 Feb	18-24 May	30 Apr – 3 May
6-9 Feb	9-12 Apr
13-16 Feb
27 Feb – 1 Mar
26-29 Mar
2-5 Apr
16-19 Apr
14-17 May

2012 PSM/RMP and CHEMNEP training dates

PSM/RMP	CHEMNEP
20-23 Feb	12-15 Mar
16-19 Apr	23-26 Apr
4-7 Jun	11-14 Jun

For other seminars and dates, see attached leaflets.

About GCAP

Garden City Ammonia Program (GCAP), located in Kansas U.S., is the only private Industrial Ammonia Technical School providing education for the industrial ammonia refrigeration operator for efficiency, safety, and compliance. It has supplied training to operators from 572 companies from over 16 countries and its spectrum of ammonia training is customised toward the quick start with no experience to the seasoned operator.