One of two training program texts built around the Virginia Erosion and Sediment Control Law and Program, this guide presents a program designed to meet the needs of job superintendents and inspectors. (The other guide, containing a program for engineers, architects, and planners, was designed to train professional people who need engineering and technical information to plan and design control systems on land development projects.) In the program presented here the emphasis is changed from engineering and design to the fundamentals of good conservation practice application for persons who have responsibility on a construction project to see that erosion and sediment control measures are properly installed and functioning. The course is presented in four parts of two or three units each. Part I presents the Virginia program and defines erosion and its damages. Part II covers types of erosion and the characteristics of sedimentation processes. In part II the principles of erosion and sediment control, a control plan, and details of control practices are presented. Part IV describes the roles of the job superintendent and inspector. Each unit includes purpose and significance, content, questions, summary (including question answers), and references. The text is supplemented by figures and photographs. (MF)