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TNLA Education On-Demand
From dangerous spiders to company culture, TNLA’s Green Industry Essentials are the FREE Downloadable PDFs to help add an education flare to your daily meetings. Just
click and print! It’s that easy to get education for your employees.
Tangible and FREE! TNLA’s Green Industry WhitePages are easy to print and share to train your employees. Guided Web Courses: Creating a Garden Sanctuary
Join author and professional landscape artist and contractor John Beaudry as he introduces the audience to the fundamentals of landscape design including the elements and principles of landscape design.
These videos are self-paced and set into 4 easy-to-follow
modules. Topics include: Art and crafts style, elements of design, finding space, plant choices, and more!
Self Paced Online Courses: Offering Basic Green Industry Training
Use these courses as training for employees, a refresher for your professionals, or get started! • Further develop your professional knowledge in your timeframe • Aid your studies for the Exam with these supplemental courses • Useful for those new to the Industry to quickly gain industry knowledge while on the go Free Webinars: Earn 1 TNLA CEU per Webinar
Grow your professional knowledge and Earn 1 TNLA CEU by watching one of the many available TNLA webnars. With topics including Business Management, Enviornment, COVID-19 Response, Pest & Disease Management, Economy, Legislative & Regulatory, Plants, & more!
Don’t miss this chance to gain FREE knowlege from the experts!
Nursery/Landscape EXPO Videos: Watch Interviews and Keynote Speakers
The Nursery/Landscape EXPO is packed full of education including excellent keynote speakers including Jack Jostes, Thom Singer and more. Hear about productivity, trends, marketing, company culture, and more!
Enjoy interviews with other professionals in the Green Industry and hear about tips, tricks, and trends from them. TNLA Green Magazine Archives: Take a CEU Quiz to Earn 1 TNLA
TNLA Green Magizine has been packed full of useful knowlege for Green Industry Professionals. TNLA Academics holds all of the TNLA CEU quizzes that you can take now and be eligible to earn 1 TNLA CEU. Read up on articles coming from AgriLife, SFA Gardens and more!
Don’t forget to take the CEU Quiz in this edition of TNLA Working for You
TNLA Tailgate Topic: Slip & Fall Protection
Objective: Participants will be able to correctly identify slip and fall hazards and determine what modifications should be made to the hazard.
APPLICATION: Participants should identify slip and fall hazards at sites, on equipment, and at their company’s buildings. For each hazard they identify have them determine what precaution/ modification should be made to make the area safe.
Slip and fall accidents are the second leading cause of accidental deaths in the United States, exceeded only by motor vehicle accidents. Simply treating walking/ working surfaces to make them non-slip can minimize exposure to slips and falls. The following recommendations are for non-slip modification to specific surfaces .
CREATING NON-SLIP SURFACES:
Non-slip work surfaces should be applied to all steps, floorboards, etc. on trucks, trailers, and forklifts. This can be painted on or adhesive backed coverings can be employed.
CONCRETE FLOORS:
Concrete floors should be cleaned and a non-slip surface applied if necessary. A paint treatment is recommended since it is the most easily cleaned.
LADDERS RUNGS AND STAIR TREADS:
All ladder rungs and stair treads should be painted with non-slip paint or covered with adhesive backed grit sheets.
ADDITIONAL STAIR TREADS:
Additional stair treads should be installed at the top of any stair way to prevent a person’s foot from slipping through the wide opening. All treads on a stairway must be equally spaced. prepared.
LADDER TOE SPACE:
Modify ladders to allow plenty of toes space (7 inches). Restricted toe space may cause a foot to slip off the ladder step.
FOOT WIPES & MUD SCRAPPERS:
Heavy-duty foot wipes should be installed just inside doorways. In addition, mud scrapers should be installed just outside of doorways. The floor surfaces inside a building should be coated with a non-slip treatment for the first 10 feet inside.
FLOOR HOLES (PITS & AUGUR TROUGHS):
Floor holes, such as pits and augur troughs, should be treated in two ways. First, the edges of all pits should be color contrasted by painting yellow strips 4 inches wide around the opening. Second, pits that are left unattended should have barricades that can be places in front of the pit to warn persons. Place the barricade back far enough that if the person
Legislative & Regulatory Update
Meeting & Events Calendar
H-2B Coalition Making Emergency December 1-18, 2020 Push for 2021 Cap Relief
H-2B advocates across the country have been conducting outreach to allies in Congress to push for cap relief language in the funding bill being negotiated this week. For the past three years, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has Texas A&M Greenhouse and Nursery Webinar Series had the discretion to increase the number of H-2B visas when the cap was hit. Register Here! Each prior year the agency had decided to expand the number of H-2B visas.
December 24, 2020-
However, this authority must be extended to the agency each time Congress passes January 4, 2021 the funding bill for DHS. Congressional leaders are negotiating the federal funding bills now and the landscape industry needs the cap relief language included. TNLA has activated a campaign on the TNLA Legislative Action Center to send a message to Congress asking for cap relief to be included. Please visit the Legislative Action Center to send a message for cap relief now! TNLA State Office Closed Inquiries? Contact info@tnlaonline.org
Updates on TNLA Working For You Activity August 5-7, 2021
• TNLA staff continues to prepare for the legislative session beginning in 2021 Nursery/
January. Our staff is working with several legislative offices to have proposals Landscape EXPO drafted as well as organizing advocacy coalitions on plant health, tort San Antonio, TX reform, and workforce training. In addition, our staff has begun meeting with More Info Here! legislators to share priorities for the coming session. • TNLA CEO & President Amy Graham recently served as a panelist in the FWD. On Demand us webinar to discuss the importance of the H-2B and H-2A programs to our economy and why Congress should improve them. Creating a Garden • The TNLA Leader List, a e-newsletter detailing the policy changes during the Sanctuary session, sent out another alert last week. If you are interested in getting the Guided Web Course weekly updates during the legislative session, go to the TNLA website and More Info Here! subscribe. • TNLA joined the effort to in support of Congress acting to correct the tax treatment of PPP loan forgiveness. Recent IRS notices have reversed congressional intent and effectively made these forgiven amounts fully taxable. The result will be a surprise $100-200 billion tax hike on struggling small businesses in the middle of a pandemic. Business groups across the country have urged Congress to fix this prior to it impacting businesses. • We urge our members to nominate the Texas landscape and nursery certifications to the Texas Education Agency for inclusion on the approved list of Industry Based Certifications for the 2022 school year. TNLA has been pushing for more green industry education for high school students to drive potential workers to our industry. Find out more here • The Federal Transportation Agency clarified in regulation that “horticulture is agriculture”. This has been a national effort as growers and groups including TNLA have pushed the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to include horticulture products under the hours-of-service agriculture exemption. For clarity on the exemption find out more here
TNLA Education Alert
CALLING TNLA MEMBERS! Tell the Texas Education Agency (TEA) that Texas’ Nursery and Landscape Industry
The TEA is accepting submissions for recommended industry-based certifications to be included on their 2022 Industry Based Certifications List.
INSTRUCTIONS: Information You Need
1. Certification Name: (To name each certification listed below, submit your recommendation twice.)
Texas Certified Landscape Associate OR Texas Certified Nursery Professional
2. Certification Website: www.tnlaonline.org 3. Certifying Entity: Texas Nursery & Landscape Association
4. Certifying Entity Contact Information:
James Theiss | education@tnlaonline.org | 512-579-3860
