30th Annual Occupational Safety and Health
Winter Institute
Fundamentals of
Environmental Health
February 15-19, 2010
Tradewinds Island Grand
St. Pete Beach, Florida
TECH EXAM FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 at 11:30 AM.
PLEASE MAKE TRAVEL PLANS ACCORDINGLY.
This course is designed to give the attendee an understanding and appreciation of how human activities affect the environment and how this environment in which we live and work can then affect human health.
Course Faculty
Keith A. Spencer, RPIH, Global Operations Manager, IESO, LLC, Lexington, KY
Scott Harris, PhD, MPH, Senior Risk Manager, IESO, LLC, Lexington, KY
Content
This
course will cover:
- Environmental regulations
- Air quality
- Waste treatment and disposal
- Occupational safety and health
- Accidents and injuries
- Vector control
- Water quality
- Indoor air quality
- Food safety and food-borne illness
- Current issues in environmental health
Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to:
- Define "environmental health" and discuss the health impacts from air pollution, water pollution, and improper disposal of solid waste
- List three pollutants for which there primary ambient air quality standards, and discuss how exposure to elevated concentrations of these pollutants adversely affect health
- List three generalized strategies for controlling the release of air pollutants and discuss how each is a control strategy
- Discuss the health impacts of exposure of humans to asbestos, formaldehyde, radon, and environmental tobacco smoke
- Define industrial hygiene
- Discuss the relationship between dose and response
- Describe primary, secondary, and tertiary treatments of municipal sewage
- Discuss TSCA, RCRA and CERCLA in terms of programmatic objectives, implementation, and effectiveness
- List two types of nonionizing radiation and how each affects human health
- Discuss the possible causes and effects of stratospheric ozone depletion, acid deposition, and global warming
- Differentiate between single factor and multi-factor theories of accident causation and give one example of each type
- List a minimum of three food-borne illnesses together with their causes, the foodstuffs usually involved, the incubation period, and the appropriate treatment for each
- List a minimum of three vector-borne diseases together with the vector causing each illness and discuss the impact of vector-borne disease on human health and the importance of vector control programs
Agenda Topics
- Introduction to the Course
- Introduction to Environmental Health
- Concepts in Epidemiology and Toxicology
- Air Quality-Standards and Regulations
- Air Quality-Sources and Control Technologies
- Indoor Air Quality
- Occupational Safety and Health
- Accidents and Injuries
- Water Quality Resources
- Treatment and Management of Liquid Wastes
- Treatment and Management of Solid Wastes
- Hazardous Waste Management and RCRA
- Hazardous Waste Site Clean-up/CERCLA
- Radioactive Waste
- TSCA
- Vector Control
- Food and Foodborne Diseases
- Current Issues in Environmental Health:
- Global Warming
- Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
- Acid Precipitation
Credit
2 Required Env Tech Credits
4.5 ABIH (Category 4)
2.9 BCSP
CEUs requested
Meeting Times
Course
begins Monday, February 15 at 8:00 am and ends Friday, February 19 at
11:00 am.
Tuition
and Registration
Please
review our Registration
Policies.
Tuition
for this course is $1150/$1250 after Jan. 29.
To register online, go to the Winter Institute Registration Form.
You may also
submit your registration via email;
please be sure to include the course title and
date.
For
further information on this course, contact the NC ERC
office at osherc@unc.edu,
or call us at 919-962-2101, toll free at 888-235-3320.
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