OSHA requires businesses that operate sites where employees, managers, and supervisors experience limited exposure to hazardous materials to provide 24-Hours of initial training. Additionally, those who only occasionally visit the site may be required to have a level of HAZWOPER training as well. While workers in these roles are not generally exposed to high levels of [...]
HAZWOPER training is required in any industry in which employees work with hazardous materials or are involved in the clean-up of hazardous materials or waste. The goal of HAZWOPER training is to instruct employees about how they should protect themselves and their immediate environment in instances when hazardous materials are released. While it’s self-evident that verticals [...]
Cal-OSHA Heat Illness Prevention is intended for employees that work outdoors, in conditions that induce heat stress and heat illness. The course will also familiarize the student with the basics of heat stress awareness, symptoms, illnesses, preventive measures, and medical surveillance. This course is intended to familiarize the student with the basics of the Heat Illness [...]
Occupational and environmental health and safety professionals are regularly called upon to create and provide training programs for their staff, employers, and clients. Being able to implement a training program is an important skill set for all OHS and EHS professionals. Being able to provide your employers, managers, supervisors, and information about workplace hazards and controls [...]
Based on OHTA course materials, this online AIHA course provides a foundational understanding of key Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety concepts as the basis for the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of workplace hazards. This course is perfect for early career health and safety professionals, occupational and environmental health and safety students, occupational health specialists, [...]
Recorded at AIHce EXP 2021 The 90's called and they want their safety training back. Developing high-quality and up-to-date training programs can be an intimidating, exhausting process. Delivering a robust curriculum that is defensible and complies with Z490 standards takes time, bandwidth and expertise. This education session will discuss: 1) the scope, purpose and application of [...]
Recorded at AIHce EXP 2021 We all love stories. Yet we fail to use them in our safety/risk communications. The science of narratives and stories brings light to how they are especially powerful in affecting risk perceptions. Creative nonfiction narrative (CNF) is used in many venues including science communication, long form writing, and presentations to lawmakers. [...]
Course Description: Recorded at AIHce EXP 2021 The safety and industrial hygiene world has been rapidly transitioning to using performance leading indicators versus lagging indicators to better predict and affect future performance through the data. There is still a significant amount of confusion over what makes an indicator leading or lagging, and what to do with [...]
Course Description: While there’s no “holy grail” of leading indicators, there is a practical approach that organizations can use to elevate their metrics. Presenters will provide participants an overview of the concepts behind a truly practical approach to EHS leading indicators, as well as specific sample metrics and case studies all organizations can put to use [...]
Course Description: Recorded at AIHce EXP 2021 Risk Management is increasingly being leveraged to generate engagement, and a culture of learning and health (workers, organization, communities). Risk management's role touches all functions and activities in an organization; through which organizational core values and culture can be viewed and transformed. However, compliance mindsets and structures dominate environmental [...]
Many operations in the processing industry involve handling and processing of liquids and powders, which could be flammable under the process conditions. Flammable gas, vapor, and dust cloud atmospheres can be ignited if a sufficiently energetic ignition source is present. Flash fires and explosions can lead to catastrophic events involving fatalities, injuries, community impact, facility damage, [...]
Occupational injuries and diseases have a widespread impact on individuals, employers (and their bottom lines), and economies. To help organizations manage these outcomes, ISO is developing a new standard, ISO 45001, Occupational health and safety management systems - Requirements. The new standard will provide a framework to improve employee safety, reduce workplace risks and create better, [...]
Understanding how industrial hygiene impacts and interacts with the other components of the new ISO 45001 management system is key to the successful implementation of the standard. This webinar will foster that understanding by introducing attendees to systems thinking, demonstrating why it is an important component of an effective ISO 45001 program. We will focus on [...]
Recorded in November 2020, this PDC will help learners develop the skills they need to interact with ERM and non-EHS/OHS risk management professionals in their organizations. Risk is a ubiquitous part of life and work. Decision making in managing risk is rife with complexity, tension, and paradox, which arise from this arena's ethical considerations, values-dependent and [...]
Learn the fundamental principles of risk assessment, including tools you can use to perform simplified analyses for different occupational and environmental health risks. All OEHS professionals encounter some form of risk assessment. This course will familiarize newcomers to the subject with historical concepts of risk, an introduction of selected risk assessment frameworks, and some simple tools [...]
AWR-922-W Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response course provides students with an introduction to the special circumstances environmental health responders may face and tasks they may perform during emergency preparedness for, response to, and recovery from disasters. The course also provides information on the procedures for protecting environmental health responders, other response partners, and the public during all [...]
The Response Considerations During an Outbreak or Pandemic course is an online course that examines responder/receiver procedures during an outbreak or pandemic. The course also examines considerations for managing contact with a person known or suspected of being exposed. This is online training. Register for this training using the website link provided at right >>> This training is [...]
This course content is to provide training and resources to emergency management officials, healthcare coalitions, healthcare providers and suppliers. The course focuses on the general overview of emergency planning and preparedness; development of policies and procedures; creation of communication plans and training and exercises for healthcare entities. This is online training. Register for this training using [...]
The Personal Protective Equipment Considerations for Infectious Agents course is an online course that examines barrier precaution requirements for infectious agents. The course focuses on donning and doffing requirements, respiratory protection, safety, and shortage considerations for associated PPE during events involving infectious agents. This is online training. Register for this training using the website link provided at [...]
This HAZWOPER 8-hour Refresher Training is designed for individuals who need to refresh their existing 24-hour or 40-hour HAZWOPER certification. This course meets the requirements outlined in OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120 for 8 (eight) hours of annual refresher training for workers involved in the transport, storage, or handling of hazardous materials or hazardous waste.[i] This course [...]