Safety and Training Advisory Committee

The Safety & Training Advisory Committee (STAC) leads PERC’s mandated mission to develop programs and projects to enhance consumer and employee safety and training. PERC courseware and materials train and educate first responders, marketers, and consumers on the safe handling of propane and provide regulatory compliance assistance to the propane industry.

Accepting the safety and training goals in PERC’s current strategic plan as a call to assess its own achievements, re-evaluate industry needs, and look for ways to expand its contribution, STAC developed the 2009 Propane Safety and Training Roadmap  a strategic framework to guide its activities and allocation of resources through 2012.

The strategic framework identifies two imperatives: to continue the development of STAC's core of expertise and value with respect to workforce safety training and to leverage this core to extend STAC's outreach to consumer safety organizations, trade groups, and emergency responders.

The framework also incorporates a set of three outreach principles:

•    Make use of strategic partnerships – leverage efforts and resources by capitalizing on partnerships, collaborations, and network relationships, particularly with other PERC advisory committees, marketers, secondary market contacts, agencies, associations, and industry groups.

•    Repurpose rather than re-create – look for ways to meet outreach needs by adapting and repurposing its current programs, before considering solutions that entail the development of entirely new programs.

•    Stay true to STAC's mission and competencies – exercise care to stay true to the scope of STAC's core competencies and mission when reaching out to meet the needs of those outside the propane industry.

To read or download the 2009 Propane Safety and Training Roadmap

For more information about the Roadmap or STAC, call Stuart Flatow, Vice President, Safety and Training, at 202-452-8975 or email stuart.flatow@propanecouncil.org