Pre-conference courses, exams and workshops. (Preliminary Schedule of Events).Registered Environmental Health Specialist/Registered Sanitarian sanitarian /san·i·tar·i·an/ (san?i-tar´e-an) one skilled in sanitation and public health science. san·i·tar·i·an n. A public health or sanitation expert. (REHS/RS) Review Course Friday, June 28 (8:00am - 5:00pm,) and Saturday, June 29 (8:00am - 12:00pm) This one-and-a-half day refresher course is designed to help you prepare for the REHS/RS exam. The course will cover the exam content. You will he able to question instructors who are familiar with the exam and who have years of expertise in the environmental health field. Cost is $329 for members and $429 for non-members, Cost includes the REHS/RS Study Guide (Second Edition) (a $179 value) and the REHS/RS exam fee (a $225 value). Limit 50 people. Certified Food Safety Professional (CFSP CFSP Common Foreign and Security Policy (European Union) CFSP Certified Funeral Service Practitioner CFSP Certified Food Safety Professional (NEHA) CFSP Customs Freight Simplified Procedure ) Review Course Friday, June28 (8:00am - 5:00pm) This one-day refresher course is designed to help you prepare for the CFSP exam. The course will cover the exam content. You will be able to question instructors who are familiar with the exam and who have years of expertise in the food safety and protection field. Cost is $329 for members and $429 for non-members. Cost includes the CFSP Study Guide Package which includes the NEHA NEHA National Environmental Health Association NEHA National Executive Housekeepers Association NEHA Northern Estates Homeowners Association (Indianapolis, Indiana) CFSP Study Guide, the 1999 Food Code and Essentials of Food Safety and Sanitation (a $199 value) and the CFSP exam fee (a $225 value). Limit 50 people. NEHA Credential Exams Saturday, June 29 (CFSP, RET, CEHT CEHT Certified Environmental Health Technician (NEHA) CEHT Camera Electrical High Tension , RHSS RHSS Registered Hazardous Substances Specialist (NEHA) RHSS Rick Hansen Secondary School RHSS Red Heart Super Saver (acrylic yarn) and RHSP RHSP Rental Housing Support Program (Australia) RHSP Registered Hazardous Substance Professional RHSP Right Handed Starting Pitcher : 8:00am - 12:00pm, REHS/RS: 1:00pm - 600pm) You have the opportunity to take any of NEHA's credential exams at the AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission and Exhibition. For credential applications and qualification information, please visit the NEHA Web site at www.neba.org click on "Credentials" and then the appropriate credential. Train-the-Trainer in Food Safety Workshop Friday, June 28 (9:00am - 4:00pm) and Saturday, June 29 (9:00am - 4:00pm) Brought back by popular demand! This two-day workshop will focus on educating you on how to become effective trainers. If you are--or would like to be--involved with training food managers and workers, food regulatory personnel, and industry workers, you are encouraged to attend, As part of the workshop registration fee you will receive a training kit. The materials will be mailed out to you after you register for you to review prior to the workshop. You will also have the opportunity to sit for the Food Protection Manager Certification examination offered by the National Registry for Food Safety Professionals. Arrangements for on-site scoring have been made so you will have access to your test score the same day. Your instructors for this workshop will be David McSwane and Richard Linton, respected members of the food protection community and authors of Essentials of Food Safety and Sanitation. Cost for this workshop is $199 for members and $249 for non-members and includes training kit and exam fee. Because course materials are mailed out prior to the workshop, NEHA recommends that you sign up for this course by May 30, 2002. Limit of 35 people. Creative Training For Trainers Workshop "How to Pass 'IT' On" Saturday June 29 (8:30am - 5:00pm) This one-day hands-on workshop is a "Train-The-Trainer" course targeting those individuals who: teach day-long classes or short courses; conduct or facilitate workshops; and/or give presentations at conferences or meetings. Workshop attendees will: learn techniques and tools to affect learning and behavior modification behavior modification n. 1. The use of basic learning techniques, such as conditioning, biofeedback, reinforcement, or aversion therapy, to teach simple skills or alter undesirable behavior. 2. See behavior therapy. as well as tips to getting started; view demonstrations of innovative approaches to the learned techniques; and actually give presentations (using the techniques and tools learned). The workshop is based on the following truisms: "I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand." and "If your participants do not put into practice that which you have presented, then they have not learned, and you have not taught." A certificate of completion for Train-The-Trainers will be issued to workshop attendees subsequent to the course. Your instructor for this workshop will be Lawrence Pong (games) Pong - A computer game invented in 1972 by Atari's Nolan Bushnell. The game is a minimalist rendering of table tennis. Each of the two players are represented as a white slab, controllable by a knob, which deflects a bouncing ball. , R.E.H.S., a highly regarded speaker and instructor from the San Francisco Health Department. Co st for this workshop is $149 for members and $179 for non-members if you sign by June 15, 2002. Limit of 50 people. Preliminary Educational Content Ambient Air Quality Wednesday, July 3 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Evaluate concerns of air quality in lower income areas * Analyze the air quality impacts of diesel trucks and border crossings Chemical and Bioterrorism Preparedness Sunday, June 30 -- Wednesday, July 3 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Analyze the roles and responsibilities of the environmental health (EH) professional in a bioterrorism event * Evaluate different municipalities' emergency plans for bioterrorism events * Assess the risks to food and water supplies from bioterrorism activities * Discuss the latest challenges in preparing for bioterrorism events * Understand the destruction potential from different chemical and biological weapons * Summarize the needs of local health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract agencies during a bioterrorism outbreak * Develop strategies for communication and needs assessment during a bioterrorism event Drinking Water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. Quality Sunday, June 30 -- Monday, July 1 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Articulate the concerns and solutions to arseaic in drinking water * Understand the latest technologies and concepts in drinking water disinfection disinfection, n the process of destroying pathogenic organisms or rendering them inert. disinfection, full oral cavity, n a procedure used to reduce active periodontal disease, usually completed within a certain short time frame. * Evaluate the latest drinking water quality programs * Summarize biological and chemical threats to drinking water safety Emerging Pathogens Sunday, June 30 -- Monday, July 1 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Discuss the law proposed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. (CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation ) to increase powers and responsibilities of EH professionals during man-made disease outbreaks * Knowledgeably discuss how the West Nile Virus West Nile virus, microorganism and the infection resulting from it, which typically produces no symptoms or a flulike condition. The virus is a flavivirus and is related to a number of viruses that cause encephalitis. spreads * Analyze the problems created by antibiotic abuse in food supplies * Incorporate the latest defense practices EH Management Monday, July 1 -- Tuesday, July 2 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Develop new strategies to fund EH programs * Motivate your EH workforce to acquire and maintain credentials * Summarize innovative strategies to increase department output * Prepare your staff to move into management positions * Assess the effectiveness of Personnel Digital Assistants (PDAs) in increasing productivity EH Research Tuesday, July 2 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Assess the relationship of airborne toxics and cancers * Describe the long-term effects of childhood lead poisoning lead poisoning or plumbism (plŭm`bĭz'əm), intoxication of the system by organic compounds containing lead. Environmental Justice Sunday, June 30 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Relate the concerns of air quality in African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. communities Food Safety and Protection Sunday, June 30 -- Wednesday, July 3 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Expertly discuss the changes and revisions to the Food Code * Evaluate the pros and cons pros and cons Noun, pl the advantages and disadvantages of a situation [Latin pro for + con(tra) against] of publishing restaurant inspection ratings * Assess the advantages of electronic inspection equipment * Explain developments in food irradiation * Summarize the latest safe food in schools program * Improve working partnerships between health inspectors and others in solving foodborne illness outbreaks * Update your staff on the latest bacteria responsible for foodborne illness * Describe precautionary methods that can be used to safe guard food supplies * Analyze innovative food safety programs * Address the increase in food allergies Food Allergies Definition Food allergies are the body's abnormal responses to harmless foods; the reactions are caused by the immune system's reaction to some food proteins. and food safety Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Wednesday, July 3 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Utilize the latest technology in GIS applications Hazardous Materials and Waste Tuesday, July 2 -- Wednesday, July 3 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Analyze the storage methods for hazardous materials in schools * Evaluate strategies for preventing lead poisoning in children * Understand the hazardous materials and toxic substances issues involved with illegal drug labs * Conduct a mercury thermometer exchange program Indoor Air Quality Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) deals with the content of interior air that could affect health and comfort of building occupants. The IAQ may be compromised by microbial contaminants (mold, bacteria), chemicals (such as carbon monoxide, radon), allergens, or any mass or energy stressor (IAQ IAQ Indoor Air Quality IAQ Investment Administration Qualification IAQ Infrequently Asked Questions IAQ Internal Air Quality IAQ Inuit Art Quarterly IAQ Illinois Air Quality ) Sunday, June 30 -- Tuesday, July 2 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Identify cost effective solutions to IAQ problems * Assess new solutions for increasing mold-related problems * Understand the options available for improving IAQ in schools * Discuss the changing terms in the IAQ field and the legal requirements resulting from them Injury Prevention/Occupational Health Sunday, June 30 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Develop a community based injury prevention program Institutional EH Monday, July 1 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Discuss the latest inspection practices for long-term care facilities * Evaluate infection control in health care facilities Onsite Wastewater Systems (OSWS OSWS Operating System Work Station ) Monday, July 1 - Wednesday, July 3 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Address problems associated with different soil types * Objectively discuss the argument for guidelines of rural systems * Describe the thinking behind long-term management of OSWS * Review the latest USEPA USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for OSWS * Develop new models for elimination of failing septic tank discharges Solid Waste Sunday, June 30 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Implement strategies designed to decrease interstate migration of solid waste * Evaluate contract negotiations during consolidation of city/private haulers * Examine effective means of decision-making concerning land use and development Swimming Pools/Recreational Waters Monday, July 1 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Utilize the latest rapid detection methods for pathogens * Develop a cross-agency coordination plan for impaired waters Vector Control and Zoonotic Diseases Zoonotic diseases Diseases caused by infectious agents that can be transmitted between (or are shared by) animals and humans. This can include transmission through the bite of an insect, such as a mosquito. Mentioned in: West Nile Virus Tuesday, July 2 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Understand the latest techniques in vector control * Incorporate the World Health Organization's plan of integrated pest management Integrated Pest Management (IPM), planned program that coordinates economically and environmentally acceptable methods of pest control with the judicious and minimal use of toxic pesticides. with yours * Evaluate the latest mosquito control devices * Summarize the latest developments in Bovine Spongiform spongiform /spon·gi·form/ (spun´ji-form) resembling a sponge. spon·gi·form adj. Resembling a sponge, as in appearance or porosity. spongiform resembling a sponge. Encephalitis encephalitis (ĕnsĕf'əlī`təs), general term used to describe a diffuse inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, usually of viral origin, often transmitted by mosquitoes, in contrast to a bacterial infection of the meninges (BSE See Bombay Stock Exchange. BSE See Boston Stock Exchange (BSE). ) Water Pollution Sunday, June 30 After attending these sessions, you will be able to: * Analyze the latest surface water remediation practices RELATED ARTICLE Important Note: A separate credential application is required and due to NEHA by May 24, 2002. Only qualified applicants will be able to sit for the exam. NEHA cannot guarantee that applicants applying after the May 24, 2002 deadline will be able to sit for the exam. All applications received after May 24, 2002 deadline will be assessed a non-returnable $25 late fee. To receive a copy of the credential application for any of the NEHA exams, please visit the NEHA Web site at www.neha.org and click on "Credentials". |
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