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The AIHA Carolinas Section Spring Conference & PDC will be held at the Clarion State Capital, Raleigh on April 2-4, 2008.
The 2007 conference ranked in the top ten PDC’s in 2005 and 2006 at the AIHce and received positive feedback. Here are some of the comments from the course evaluations:
- "Workshops are very instructive, they really make a difference"
- "I felt this was an excellent program. The course was interesting and helped me meet my goals. I liked the labs and demos"
- "Just what I wanted. A very basic course in electrical safety. Good Adult learning concept use.
- "Instructor involved attendees with hands-on exercises. Nice job!"
- “Coverage of NFPA 70E was excellent. Table top work greatly enhanced understanding. Very good class!”
- “If your job responsibilities include electrical safety, this is the course you need!”
Winter Institutes for IH Professionals
Contact UNC-ERC for details.
REGIONAL LUNCHEONS
Lunch meetings - Informal luncheons to network with local IH peers
City meetings are held in different parts of the Carolinas as a way for members to attend technical presentations and network with their peers. There are currently two groups who are meeting on a regular basis:
 Triad area
Marie Fitzgerald (mariefitzgerald@bellsouth.net)
AIHA continues to hold
quarterly city luncheon meetings in the Greensboro,
Winston-Salem, High Point area. You do not have to be a
member of AIHA to attend. Please forward this e-mail to
others who may be interested. The meeting information is
given below. Please e-mail your RSVP
(mariefitzgerald@bellsouth.net) or if you have any
questions. Mike Edens
can be reached at
edensm@rjrt.com, (336) 829-9486.
AIHA Triad Area City Lunch Meeting
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Time: 11:30-1:30 PM
Location: RJ Reynolds - Winston-Salem
Host: Mike Edens
Specific Conference Rm #TBA
Topic: Effective Use of the Optical Particle Counter in
a Non-Sterile Indoor Environment"
Participants will learn:
- the best places to sample the air in a room
- how to use the particle counter to help detect hidden
contamination (airborne allergens)
- how to interpret the data
- the wide variety of applications of a particle counter
Speaker: Craig Whitaker - ESG Testing
Lunch Selections: RJR Cafeteria
RSVP: To
mariefitzgerald@bellsouth.net by Monday, March
17th.
Directions to Bowman Gray Technical Center, R. J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co. from Greensboro
1. Take Interstate 40 West to Winston (business I 40,
with the green and white signs- after
you go through Greensboro, I 40 will split with the new
I 40 bearing left and the old I 40,
now business I 40, will bear right).
2. Exit onto 52 North as you approach downtown Winston.
3. Go north on 52 approximately 3 miles and exit on to
Akron Drive.
4. Turn left onto Akron Drive and go approximately 2
traffic lights to the McDonalds which will
be on your right.
5. Turn left onto Reynolds Blvd.
6. Come down Reynolds approximately one half mile. Look
for the cemetery on the left.
7. The next building on your left after passing the
cemetery is Bowman Gray Technical
Center.
8. Drive almost past BGTC and take a left into the
circle drive in front of BGTC.
9. Visitor parking is that parking in front of BGTC. If
you can't find a place there, overflow
visitor parking is the small lot that was on your left
just after you passed the cemetery.
10. Come in the front entrance of BGTC and Mike Edens
will be waiting for you there.
Research Triangle Park area
Susan Buchanan is coordinating the lunchtime City Meetings in the Research Triangle Park area. Her goal is for one every quarter or so.
Call Susan at: 919/461-1320
FAX: 919-461-1415
or send her e-mail: susan_km_buchanan@urscorp.com to be added to her mailing list.
DIRECTIONS TO U.S. EPA
Follow the directions below and park in the "visitor" parking at the main facility. If visitor parking is full, return toward the gate and park in the National Computer Center lot and walk/catch the shuttle bus to the main facility. Enter the main entrance (Building C), proceed through security, obtain a visitor's pass from the guard desk (typically not issued at the front gate) and head down the stairs to the cafeteria & classrooms.
From Raleigh, Raleigh-Durham International Airport, and Points East via Interstate 40.
Take Interstate 40 West to Exit 279A, "Durham Freeway (NC Highway 147) South". (The sign prior to the exit says "To Alexander Drive".) Take exit, which will put you on the Durham Freeway, and continue until you reach a traffic light at the "T" intersection with Alexander Drive. Turn left onto Alexander Drive. Go to next traffic light which is the entrance to the U.S. EPA Facility (on left).
From Chapel Hill and Points West via Interstate 40
Take Interstate 40 East to Exit 279A, "Durham Freeway(or N.C. 147) South". (The sign prior to the exit says "To Alexander Drive".) Take exit, which will put you on the Durham Freeway, and continue until you reach a traffic light at the "T" intersection with Alexander Drive. Turn left onto Alexander Drive. Go to next traffic light which is the entrance to the New EPA Facility (on left).
From Downtown Durham via Durham Freeway
Take Durham Freeway (NC Highway 147) South toward Research Triangle Park. Continue until you reach a traffic light at the "T" intersection with Alexander Drive. Turn left onto Alexander Drive. Go to next traffic light which is the entrance to the New EPA Facility (on left).
Charlotte, NC
Kevin Cosgove plans the City Meetings for Charlotte, NC.
Our next Greater Charlotte Area AIHA
Luncheon will be held on Friday, December 7th from 11:45
to 1:15.
This luncheon will be an informal
gathering without having one speaker and topic as we
usually do. I would like everyone to come prepared with
ideas about how we can improve on our local meetings
moving into 2008. Any and all ideas are welcome from
topics to discuss, to speakers to request, to different
meeting locations, etc. I will also provide a summary of
my experience in dealing with the new Department of
Homeland Security Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism
Standard.
We will be meeting again at Sir Edmond
Halley's Restaurant and Freehouse in the Park Road
Shopping Center. Visit
www.halleyspub.com
for more information, directions, or to view their $8
Parliament Lunch Menu.
Please RSVP so I can prepare the
restaurant for our expected group size. Thanks and I
hope to see you there.
Kevin
(Charlotte AIHA Coordinator)
Map to Sir Edmond Halley
Map to Park Road Shopping Center
Kevin Cosgrove
Safety & Security Specialist
Schaeffler Group USA Inc.
308 Springhill Farm Road
Fort Mill, SC 29715
Phone: 803-548-8908
Mobile: 803-804-6209
Fax: 803-547-7992
kevin.cosgrove@schaeffler.com
Other Meetings of Interest
More volunteers for other areas in NC and SC are needed!
Contact Art Ramirez at (864) 847-3140 if you would like to start meetings in your area.
The meetings are a good way to get Certification Maintenance Points. You can get 0.5 CM points per every 3 hours of meeting you attend, over the span of a 5-year cycle.
ABIH does request that a CM Point Inquiry Form be submitted for each meeting (you can access that from the ABIH Web site)
NC ASSE Luncheons
No new information has been provided. ASSE Sections:
Last Updated: August 21, 2007
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