Professional Development Courses
The following are top ranked courses from past AIHce and PCIH conferences. Seats are limited; tickets are issued first-come, first-served.
Fees: $315 before August 24 /
$385 after August 24
1.0 IH CM/RM point; 0.8 CEU/COC points
Saturday, October 3
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
PDC 1 : Bayesian Statistics: Overview and Applications in Industrial Hygiene Data Interpretation and Exposure Risk Assessment
Intermediate
Value Added: Receive a CD-Rom containing software for performing Bayesian decision analysis calculations and engage in workshops and discussions on formalizing the exposure assessment process.
Outcomes: On completion, the participant will be able to:
- Describe the Bayesian framework for decision analysis.
- List three common distributions associated with Bayesian decision analysis.
- Relate the Bayesian framework for decision analysis to the AIHA Exposure Assessment Strategy.
- Apply Bayesian decision tools for implementation of a performance-based exposure risk assessment strategy.
- Use a software tool to perform a Bayesian decision analysis of industrial hygiene monitoring data.
Description: The Bayesian statistical framework offers opportunities for improving the accuracy, efficiency and transparency of our exposure judgments. Bayesian techniques can be used to combine professional judgment regarding a potential exposure and its uncertainty with the statistical analysis of exposure data. The Bayesian decision analysis formalizes traditional exposure assessment processes already used by industrial hygienists. The course will provide an overview of the Bayesian framework for decision analysis and explore opportunities for its application in IH data interpretation and exposure risk assessment.
Instructors: John Mulhausen, PhD, CIH, 3M Corporate Safety and IH, St. Paul, MN and Perry Logan, CIH, 3M Safety and Industrial Hygiene, St. Paul, MN; Paul Hewett, PhD, CIH, Exposure Assessment Solutions, Inc, Morgantown, WV; Gurumurthy Ramachandran, PhD, CIH, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
PDC 2: Introduction to Risk Assessment for the Industrial Hygienist |
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Introductory
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Value Added: Receive Risk Assessment Principles for the Industrial Hygienist and an overview of Risk Assessment using case studies.
Learning Aids: Participants must bring a scientific calculator.
Outcomes: On completion, the participant will be able to:
- Determine responsibilities as a risk assessor.
- Explain how true risk is never known but is typically overestimated using the Precautionary Principle.
- Recall how the degree of risk overestimation is inversely proportional to the resources applied in the estimation.
- Describe how expert judgment is valued based on how assumptions and data are explained.
- Identify human health risk as driven by the exposure experience and the health effects for any agent or mixture.
- Recognize the human health risk assessment process as a comparison of an estimated exposure to an established exposure limit.
- Show how Risk Assessment starts with inexpensive evaluations that overestimate and proceed to more expensive and accurate analytical tools.
Description: The course will explore the relationship between IH and risk assessment and its elements. It is designed to be a broad overview of the process. It will provide IH practitioners with an appreciation of where they fit in this scheme and where they could be to learn and do more to ultimately grow in the profession.
Instructors: Michael Jayjock, PhD, CIH, LINEA Inc, Langhorne, PA; Susan Arnold, MSOH CIH, EHS, LLC, Roswell, GA
PDC 3:
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This course receives Safety CM points.
Value Added: Instructor led exercises and investigations of case studies based on class concepts.
Learning Aid: A calculator and a copy of the
Life Safety Code are suggested but not required.
Outcomes: On completion, the participant will be
able to:
- Describe general principles of life safety.
- Apply the Life Safety Code to various environments and occupancies.
- Determine the occupancy designation of a building.
- Perform life safety egress calculations.
- Identify fire protection alternatives for a variety of life safety and fire hazards.
Description: Life safety refers to the features of a building that enable its occupants to exit safely and/or seek refuge within a building in the event of a fire or similar emergency. Participants will learn the general principles of life safety for an occupied environment. The principles discussed will be based on the Life Safety Code, published by the National Fire Protection Association. Although the principles taught within this course are applicable to any occupancy, life safety concepts associated with industrial, business, health care, and storage occupancies will be emphasized. Numerous case studies of fires will be presented to reinforce lecture concepts and class exercises.
Instructor: Leo Old, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
PDC 4: Noise Control Engineering |
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Intermediate
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Value Added: Receive the AIHA Noise Manual and a CD-Rom with spreadsheet programs and references.
Prerequisites: Participants must be familiar with the fundamentals of noise and basic terminology.
Outcomes: On completion, the participant will be able to:
- Conduct a noise control survey.
- Identify the noise-generating mechanisms, and prioritize items for noise control.
- Develop feasible engineering controls through effective implementation of the Principles of Noise Control.
- Discuss noise control design and retrofit applications for a variety of industrial equipment.
- Work effectively with design contractors, acoustical product suppliers and consultants to achieve the stated noise criteria or goals.
Description: The most effective way to prevent occupational noise-induced hearing loss is by implementing engineering noise controls. Industrial hygienists with a basic knowledge of the fundamentals of noise can develop noise control solutions; establish noise control priorities; identify and select optimum products for retrofitting equipment; work effectively with design engineers to implement a proactive approach to noise control; and predict how new equipment will affect existing noise levels.
Instructor: Dennis Driscoll, PE, Associates in Acoustics, Inc., Evergreen, CO
Sunday, October 4
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Fees: $315 before August 24 / $385
after August 24
Seats are limited; tickets are issued first-come, first-served.
1.0 IH CM/RM point; 0.8 CEU/COC points
PDC 5: Anticipation, Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Welding Health Hazards |
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Intermediate
Value Added: Receive two publications: Welding Health and Safety: A Field Guide for OEHS Professionals and Field Guidelines for Temporary Ventilation of Confined Spaces With an Emphasis on Hotwork.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of industrial ventilation.
Outcomes: On completion, the participant will be able to:
- Anticipate exposure scenarios associated with probable overexposure to welding fume constituents.
- Suggest process substitutions for mitigating welding fume exposures.
- Describe general health and safety hazards associated with welding and thermal cutting.
- Develop an exposure assessment strategy for welding and thermal cutting processes.
- Recognize and recommend effective ventilation for confined space welding and thermal cutting.
- Identify issues to be addressed during welding and thermal cutting in confined spaces.
Description: The course describes common welding and thermal cutting processes and the health/safety hazards associated with these processes. Materials, thermal processes and scenarios associated with potential for overexposures are described. Suggestions for improving the quality of monitoring data are provided, as are suggestions for prioritizing exposure assessments. Ventilation techniques and respiratory protection options are also outlined.
Instructor: Mike Harris, PhD, CIH, Hamlin & Harris, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA
PDC 6: Lean Six Sigma Overview for EHS Professionals |
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Introductory
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Value Added: Practical applications and tools for improving processes and reducing costs.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of statistics.
Outcomes: On completion, the participant will be able to:
- Describe Lean Six Sigma (LSS).
- Identify business benefits of LSS.
- Explain the components of a Six Sigma Project.
- Discuss the basic concepts of Lean Engineering.
- Apply some common LSS data presentation and analysis tools.
- Implement LSS techniques in the EHS processes.
Description: Many businesses are applying Lean Six Sigma techniques to improve processes and reduce costs. This course will provide a general overview of Lean Six Sigma that is geared toward the EHS professional, including the benefits and limitations of applying LSS tools to EHS systems.
Instructor: David Lumby, CIH, CSP, Abbott, Abbott Park, IL
PDC 7: Moving Out on Your Own – Developing a Successful OEHS Consulting Practice |
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PDC 8: Occupational Health Program for Silica Exposure and Control of Silicosis |
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Value Added: Receive the publication: Occupational Health Program for Exposure to Crystalline Silica in the Industrial Sand Industry published by the National Industrial Sand Association, Washington, DC
Prerequisites: Understanding of the fundamentals of industrial hygiene, toxicology and particulate sampling.
Outcomes: On completion the participant will be able to:
- Describe the natural history and trends of silica-related diseases in the United States and Canada.
- Describe the silica-related diseases and characteristics of each focusing on the spectrum of the three types of silicosis with emphasis on the pathology and radiology of silicosis.
- Develop an exposure assessment strategy for exposure to crystalline silica.
- Develop a medical surveillance program for silicosis.
- Recognize and recommend effective controls for types of silica operations.
- Developments related to promulgation of a comprehensive OSHA silica standard.
- Understand the history of silicosis litigation and the current status of product liability litigation with respect to crystalline silica.
Description: Understand the history and current
status of product liability litigation with respect to crystalline
silica.
The course will describe the pulmonary fibrotic disease silicosis
which is most often associated with the inhalation of crystalline
silica. However, occupational exposures are now related to increases
of lung cancer, and more recently studies have linked silica with
chronic renal disease, autoimmune disorders, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease and other adverse health effects. The course will
review the recent evidence related to these conditions.
Recommendations for conducting dust surveys and medical surveillance
for workers exposed to crystalline silica will be presented.
Controls methods that have been found effective in reducing silica
exposures in the industrial sand industry will be offered. Recent
developments in silica product liability litigation will be
addressed and the current climate for silica litigation will be
covered.
Instructors: Robert E. Glenn, CIH, Crowell & Moring, LLP, Washington, DC, Andrew D. O'Brien, CSP, Unimin Corporation, Winchester, VA and John A. Ulizio, Esq., U.S. Silica Company, Berkeley Springs, WV
PDC 9 Effective Training for Adult Learners
Introductory
Value-Added: Tools for utilizing accelerated learning principles to develop a custom adult learner action plan.
Outcomes: On completion, the participant will be able to:
- Identify and rethink personal beliefs that block learning, then design a personal action plan for an interactive training program that is holistic (integrates mind and body), activity-based and image-rich with a variety of instructional methods and minimal lecture.
- Describe eight steps in the training process (training needs assessment recordkeeping).
- Describe principles of accelerated learning such as brain dominance theories and exercises to enhance crossover between the right brain (overview) and the left brain (details).
- Describe nine strategies (such as mental rehearsal, adequate sleep, humor and emotion) to maximize memory for long-term retention.
- Set up a training environment using music, color, visual impact, room layout, equipment and supplies, refreshments, plants, aromatherapy and peripherals to enhance learning.
- Describe strategies to deal with a variety of difficult participants.
- Describe difficulties training an aging workforce and strategies addressing hearing loss, vision changes and reduced manual dexterity.
- Identify strategies to improve computer-based training (e-learning).
Description: This course is designed for new and experienced trainers who desire creative strategies for conducting effective training programs in less time. Do you know how to use multiple intelligences to appeal to all learning styles? What time of the day the brain is best at short-term memory tasks? The attention span of an adult? What kind of music serenades the brain and strengthens long-term memory? What happens to short-term memory when we sleep? The No. 1 cause of daytime fatigue? What aromas improve mental alertness? Participants will develop a personal action plan, and a variety of activities and instructional methods using accelerated learning principles will center on the adult learner.
Instructor: Christine Merli, CIH, CSP, CHMM, Chris’ Safety and Health Consulting, Inc., Fenton, MO
PDC 10 Industrial Hygienists: Experts in Depositions and at Trials |
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