ISRI Launches Safety Training for
EV Battery Recycling
Recycling electric-vehicle (EV) batteries presents unique potential safety hazards and requires special safety precautions. That’s why ISRI is partnering with Energy Security Agency and other fire safety experts to offer a free online, on-demand safety training program on how to safely recycle EV batteries.
 
The online training course—titled "High Voltage Electric Vehicle Technology Training for Recycling Professionals"—“features a partnership between the world’s foremost experts in this space,” says Dalen Zartman of Energy Security Agency. “ISRI has helped facilitate the partnership to develop knowledge that has a direct impact on safe handling of EV batteries, with deterring thermal events as the goal.”
 
Participants must successfully complete this first online course and receive a certificate to be eligible for the second level.
The second level is an in-person classroom course and hands-on training offered in collaboration with Energy Security Agency in Piqua, Ohio. This is a technical course designed to give participants a strong understanding of how to physically handle EV batteries.
 
The third-level course will be targeted to management professionals responsible for on-site management of batteries in their respective operations.
 
Click HERE to begin the signup process for the first online training course, “High Voltage Electric Vehicle Technology Training for Recycling Professionals.”

Car graphic by Worapong Saleewong and fire graphic by Seetwo, both from Vecteezy.
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For more information on the ISRI Gulf Coast Region,
click HERE or contact one of the following officers:

President: Becky Proler, SCR Recycling
First VP: Alton Schaubhut, CMC Recycling Liberty
Second VP: Chip DeJean, Louisiana Scrap Metal Recycling
Secretary/Treasurer: Brandi Harleaux, South Post Oak Recycling Center