CCAR Receives Honor for S/P2 Online Training

The Coordinating Committee For Automotive Repair (CCAR) offers online training in Safety and Pollution Prevention for the automotive repair industry. This training has been honored by the Kansas Department of Health & Environment for the second consecutive year.

OVERLAND PARK, KS (PRWEB) August 11, 2003 -- For the second consecutive year, the Coordinating Committee For Automotive Repair (CCAR) has been selected by the Kansas Department of Health & Environment to receive its “Pollution Prevention Award of Excellence” for CCAR’s “S/P2” online training program.

CCAR is being recognized for its S/P2 online training in Safety and Pollution Prevention, which CCAR offers free of charge to automotive training programs at career/vocational schools and community colleges. More than 800 school programs and 54,000 students across
the country now have access to the S/P2 curriculum.

The Internet-based S/P2 training addresses the key safety and pollution prevention issues for professionals working in automotive service and collision repair. CCAR developed S/P2 training over a two-year period in concurrence with U.S. EPA and OSHA standards, which require that shop personnel be trained at least annually on safety and environmental regulations.

These standards also apply to automotive training programs, and – prior to the introduction of S/P2 – schools had no standardized way to provide such training for students. Students nationwide have taken more than 61,000 trainings on S/P2 since January of 2002.

CCAR is able to provide S/P2 to automotive training programs at no charge thanks in part to sponsorships from automotive industry, as well as proceeds from the sales of the training to automotive mechanical and collision repair shops.

“To be recognized a second time by the State of Kansas for our S/P2 efforts is a tremendous honor,” said Robert G. Stewart, President of CCAR. “CCAR is more committed than ever to taking the message of S/P2 to every automotive student in Kansas and across the country, and we welcome the opportunity to work with all sectors of the automotive industry in making this happen.”

S/P2 is also available to automotive service and collision repair operations for $299 per facility for an annual subscription, which trains all technicians and office staff. For more information on S/P2 online training, visit the www.sp2.org website or call toll-free at 1-888-772-3535.

Stewart will receive the award on behalf of CCAR on August 26 during the 2003 Kansas Environmental Conference in Wichita. In notifying CCAR of the award, the Kansas Department of Health & Environment commended CCAR’s “diligence in working to keep the Kansas environment clean and healthy.”

Established in 1994, CCAR is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the professionalism and image of automotive technicians. CCAR’s more than 200 affiliates represent all segments of the automotive service and collision repair industry, including vehicle manufacturers and dealers, national automotive chains and local repair shops, and colleges and universities that offer training in automotive service and collision repair.

CCAR also operates “CCAR-GreenLink®,” the national environmental compliance assistance center for the automotive industry, in cooperation with the U.S. Environ-mental Protection Agency [EPA]. “CCAR-GreenLink®” [www.ccar-greenlink.org/] is recognized globally as a leading source of environmental compliance and pollution prevention information for the automotive industry.

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