IHMM Today June 6, 2023

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Associate Hazardous Materials Manager® [AHMM®]

An Associate Hazardous Materials Manager (AHMM) is specifically for [a] recent college graduates with little or no experience, [b] military personnel or those out of the military with no degree and less than 3 years of experience, or [c] other professionals such a first responders who have no degree or less than 3 years of experience. The AHMM is an early career professional with experience in handling hazardous materials in a wide variety of specialties, such as safety, environmental protection, compliance, or basic dangerous goods transportation.

See: https://ihmm.org/ahmm/

IHMM’s Latest Credential Launches, Article Below

IHMM Credential Recognition

Below you will see the credential badges that are now in each CHMM, CHMP, CDGT, CDGP, AHMM, Student CHMM, CSHM, CSMP, CSSM, ASHM and Student certificant’s MYIHMM account. Every IHMM certificant may use these badges, linked as those below are to their IHMM credential page, for their email signatures, business cards, and other social media applications. You’re justifiably proud of the accomplishment of having earned your credential and you can show the rest of the world. Simply right-click on the badge of choice, then save as to your computer, and then load it to wherever you want to use it, and please link that back to https://ihmm.org/.

Hazardous Materials / Dangerous Goods Transportation Credentials

Certified Hazardous Materials Manager

Certified Hazardous Materials Practitioner

Certified Dangerous Goods Professional

Associate Hazardous Materials Manager

Certified Dangerous Goods Trainer

Student Certified Hazardous Materials Manager

EHS / Workplace Safety Credentials

Certified Safety & Health Manager

Certified Safety Management Practitioner

Associate Safety & Health Manager

Student Associate Safety & Health Manager

Certified School Safety Manager

IHMM Certificant Recognition

Throughout our certificant’s MYIHMM accounts are placed 10 Year, 20 Year, and 30 Year badges signifying their longevity as an IHMM certified professional.

With a link from your credential badge to the IHMM website [see above] you can not only stand out as an IHMM-certified professional, you can also promote IHMM credentials to others. Right-click on the badge of choice, save as to your computer, then load it to whatever medium you choose.

IHMM has Distinguished Diplomates and Fellows of the Institute badges to the appropriate people in the MYIHMM database. These two badges are accompanied by lapel pins sent to each of those distinguished by holding these designations.

IHMM is in all 50 of the United States and in 85 countries around the World.

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IHMM RECENT NEWS

INSIDE IHMM

Meet Jelian Larbi, PMP, Certification Coordinator

IHMM is pleased to introduce to our community Jelian Larbi, PMP, our newest Certification Coordinator who has been with us a month and is completing her orientation.

Jelian’s primary responsibility is working with the roughly 1,500 people who need to recertify their credentials every year. She will be in touch with every IHMM certificant who appears to be getting a bit behind in meeting their 5-year recertification cycle requirement to earn 100 points for their professional job and another minimum of 100 points in a variety of activities as spelled out in the IHMM Recertification Claims Manual.

Jelian is here to help every certificant retain their credential! After spending an enormous amount of time and money preparing for and earning their credential, the last thing we all want is for any certificant to lose their credential for not recertifying on time.

  • Jelian will walk you through the IHMM Recertification Claims Manual and help you discover certification maintenance points [CMPs] that you may be able to take credit for,
  • Jelian will assist you with how to start a recertification claims application, which everyone should do now and enter their points as they are earned, and she can show you how to enter them,
  • Jelian will assist you with how you may update your MYIHMM record and keep it all current,
  • Jelian will assist you with making any payments you need to make in your MYIHMM record.

Jelian is at [email protected] or at 301-244-4875.

Associate Hazardous Materials Manager® [AHMM®] Launches

IHMM is pleased to announce, after more than 24 months of work, that the  Associate Hazardous Materials Manager® [AHMM®] credential has launched this Memorial Day.

There are 250,000 people who muster out of the U.S. Armed Services each year, the vast majority of whom have no degree and less than 3 years of experience in an MOS/AFCS – or military occupation. Until now, IHMM had no credential for any of these servicemen and women. Each year, thousands of people graduate with a degree in environmental engineering or other sciences, get their first job in the environmental field and thus have no experience, and IHMM has no credential for these people either.

Now, IHMM has the Associate Hazardous Materials Manager® [AHMM®] credential for military personnel with no degree and less than 3 years of experience, or recent college graduates with little or no experience, or Student CHMM® graduates, may apply for and take examinations.

The AHMM certification blueprint is here.

IHMM thanks the AHMM Scheme Committee > https://ihmm.org/ahmm-scheme-committee/ as he success of this project can be largely attributed to the passionate subject matter experts in their field who were fully engaged in the process, and committed to the mission of IHMM and the AHMM credential.  Thank you for volunteering your time, your expertise, and your passion!! All of the members hold the CHMM certification.

Ten subject matter experts (SMEs) serve on the AHMM Scheme Committee, working under the guidance of Nicola Areshenko, Chair, and Craig Dickensheets, Vice-Chair of the AHMM Scheme Committee, and M. Patricia Buley, IHMM’s Director of Certification and Accreditation.

Subject Matter Expert

Organization

Location

Nicola Areshenko, ChairUS Public Health ServiceCA
Craig Dickensheets, Vice-ChairHazTek Safety ManagementVA
Andrew Douglas AdamsIKON Environmental Solutions, LPTX
Nicole BrownGeneral Dynamics – OTSIL
Michael DeckerTradebe Environmental ServicesTN
Alec HartColorado Springs UtilitiesCO
Lewis HaynesTennessee Department of the Environment and ConservationTN
Alfonso NunezEnvironmental Resources Management, Inc.CA
Rebecca Tracy US VanadiumAR
Xiaoyu ZhangEnvironeer Engineering ConsultingTX
The AHMM website is here > https://ihmm.org/ahmm/

Certified School Safety Manager® [CSSM®] Launches

IHMM is pleased to announce, after more than 18 months of work, that the Certified School Safety Manager [CSSM] credential has been built from the ground up with its first blueprint and examination.

IHMM thanks the CSSM Committee > https://ihmm.org/csss-cssm-committee/ starting with its Chair Mike Howe, CSSM, for all of the time and effort building a new credential where none had existed before.

IHMM’s Certified School Safety Manager® [CSSM®] credential certifies the school safety professional who is responsible for overseeing and supporting key operational and safety functions in educational facilities. This position may provide direct supervision or advise operations and academic programs in order to provide an environment free of recognized hazards.

The IHMM CSSM website is here.

Certified Pandemic Preparedness Specialist® [CPPS®] Coming

For the past year the IHMM Microcredential Task Force > https://ihmm.org/microcredential-task-force/  has been developing the first IHMM microcredential, the Certified Pandemic Preparedness Specialist [CPPS].

A Certified Pandemic Preparedness Specialist (CPPS) Microcredential holder is first a CHMM or CSHM credentialed professional who has demonstrated, through education, experience, and examination, the ability to identify and assess the risks associated with pathogens and their effect on public health, commerce, industry, and/or government operation. The focus of the CPPS microcredential is to: assess and provide guidance concerning the preparedness levels of different entities, develop and implement risk-reduction strategies.

Common functions may include training needs assessment, identifying supply chain challenges, best practices and technologies associated with identified risks, leading multi-stakeholder meetings, and related duties. Mastery of International Standards including ISO 45006 Managing Infectious Diseases as well as ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, serves as a basis for this International IHMM Microcredential.

Much of this work is also based on the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness, whose annual report released last September strongly reflected that America was ill-prepared for COVID-19 and will be unprepared for the next pandemic unless public and private professionals act.

The CPPS blueprint has been completed, and the new CPPS examination is being loaded into the Kryterion system and IHMM should be in a position to release the CPPS website and deliver applications and examinations by the 4th of July.

ASSP Safety Conference and Exposition

Visit with Rosie and Kortney from IHMM at Booth #860!!

San Antonio, TX

June 5-7, 2023

IHMM Board of Directors Nominations

IHMM Directors and Officers are volunteers who serve without pay. They may serve up to two, four-year terms. Directors are responsible for the governance of IHMM, including establishing the overall direction of IHMM, the appointment of Executive Director, policy-making, and financial management.

IHMM has two Board seats expiring at the end of 2023. IHMM is soliciting candidates for these two seats; one an At-Large Director seat that may be held by a CHMM, CHMP, CDGP, CSHM or CSMP. One a CSMP Director seat that must be held by a CSMP.

The composition of the present Board is here > https://ihmm.org/board-of-directors/

Qualified candidates may submit nomination papers [self nomination is acceptable] on or before June 30, 2023. The documents for this announcement, procedures, and nomination form are here:

IHMM Excellence in EHS Management Award

The Excellence in EHS Management Award recognizes an individual who has excelled in their role as an EHS manager. The Institute for Hazardous Materials Management [IHMM] will present the award at the annual National Safety Council Expo.

The honoree will receive a commemorative plaque and be recognized in a press release and in IHMM member communications. Travel expenses to the award ceremony will be subsidized. If traveling from overseas IHMM will pay travel expenses from the nearest port of entry.

Nominations will be accepted from March through July of each year and the presentation to the winner will be in conjunction with the National Safety Council Congress and Expo, this year on October 23-25, 2023 in New Orleans.

Make your nominations here >>  https://ihmm.org/ehs-management-award/

See previous award winners here >> https://ihmm.org/past-honorees/

IHMM Needs Volunteers

“There’s nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.” — Jimmy Doolittle. We all benefit from the expertise, knowledge sharing, content creation and mentoring that our volunteer leaders share with our communities of practice.

IHMM has a wide variety of ways that our certificants and members can volunteer their time, make a substantial contribution to their communities of practice, and earn valuable Continuing Maintenance Points [CMPs].

Volunteering with IHMM is a deeply rewarding and giving endeavor, ranging from being a subject matter expert on a scheme committee to leading discussions in our COLLABORATION engagement platform to becoming a mentor for a college student.

Take a few minutes and review How to Become An IHMM Volunteer, and then scroll down and take the volunteer self-assessment.

CHMP Scheme Committee

Government Affairs Committee

  • Open to all certificants, We need volunteers in these 16 states – Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Florida, Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine. These are states where the requirements of an “environmental professional” or QEP are cited that coincide with an IHMM credential so that relatively little work would need to be done to clarify the desired outcome.
  • > https://ihmm.org/government-affairs-committee/

A Collaborative Culture

There are 968 different conversations going on in the IHMM/HMS Collaboration platform this week.

A collaborative culture is important for every business but is especially important for our hazardous materials, dangerous goods, environment, health, and safety communities of practice. Do you have a problem you need to solve and want the opinions of your colleagues? This is where we come together to help each other.

IHMM credentialed professionals are at the top 1% of their professions and their reach is global. We are at the forefront of environmental protection, health, and safety and this is where collaborating with the best people in their fields, always willing to help one another, lessens the stress of our jobs, and where we strive as a team to make a difference of which we are proud.

We opened COLLABORATION to enable thousands of certificants and supporters to collaborate together. You can collaborate here.

Access to COLLABORATION is through the same username/password you use to access your MYIHMM account. Having a problem? Contact Jimmy Nguyen at [email protected]

IHMM GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS

IHMM Government Affairs – Needs You

IHMM is building volunteers for its Government Affairs Committee – open to all IHMM certificants. Anyone may join the committee on its website here >> https://ihmm.org/government-affairs-committee/

  • Furthering the interests of certificants to secure government recognition of IHMM credentials
  • Determine which state or federal regulatory actions to become involved with
  • Determine which state or federal legislative activities to become involved with

The committee may be as busy as it chooses to be as IHMM certificants determine the number and scope of its activities in one of the most important areas in which we work both to secure recognition as well as to promote the strengths of our subject matter experts across the broad range of government policy making that affects us all.

Sandia scientists achieve breakthrough in tackling PFAS contamination

A Sandia team is developing materials to tackle what has become one of the biggest problems in the world: human exposure to a group of chemicals known as PFAS through contaminated water and other products. Sandia is now investing more money to take their research to the next level. “It’s in the news constantly. It seems every day we hear of another product that is contaminated. We saw sparkling water with PFAS, toilet paper with PFAS, so it’s not just a groundwater problem; it’s popping up everywhere,” said Andrew Knight, a chemist at Sandia who has a passion for solving PFAS contamination. “It has become clear to the world it is a growing problem. It is a
national security issue of a large scale.”

Read more here.

–Submitted by Richie Spangler, CHMM, CDGP

Debt Ceiling Permit Deal Clears Path For Biden CEQ’s Phase 2 NEPA Rule

The bipartisan permitting deal included in the looming debt-ceiling legislation clears a path to allow the White House to incorporate a host of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) streamlining measures in its upcoming phase 2 rule, a measure environmentalists have long warned would be a disappointment and not the widely expected rebuke of the 2020 Trump-era NEPA streamlining measure.

However, the legislation, which amends NEPA, is also expected to slow the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) release of the phase 2 rule, because the statutory changes will need to be incorporated into the regulation, which has been undergoing interagency review since Jan. 30 and had been expected to be published in June.

One environmentalist calls the debt deal “very disappointing” on NEPA, including a new provision that allows project sponsors to sue if federal agencies miss one- and two-year deadlines to complete their NEPA reviews.

But the source adds that unless the administration knew about some of the new provisions ahead of time, including new “e-NEPA” requirements, “I can’t see how the rule that they’ve written could come out any time soon because it’s based on a different statute.” While some of the provisions are carried over from the 2020 rule, such as a NEPA exemption for concentrated animal feeding operations seeking certain federal loans, others are “totally new.”

Also, Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, warned last week that CEQ’s June date for releasing the phase 2 rule could slip if NEPA is changed as part of the debt deal.

There is no sense that the rule “will come out” anytime soon, in such a scenario, he said.

–Inside EPA

EPA Completes Verification Analysis of PFAS Scientific Testing of Pesticide Products

On May 30, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it has taken additional steps in addressing concerns that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been found in pesticide products. As part of its ongoing efforts, EPA has completed its verification analysis of a study published in September 2022 in the Journal of Hazardous Materials entitled “Targeted analysis and Total Oxidizable Precursor assay of several insecticides for PFAS.” This study reported the presence of perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) in six of ten pesticide products tested. EPA released a summary of the laboratory analysis of the same ten pesticide products reported to contain PFAS residues. EPA states it did not find any PFAS in the tested pesticide products, differing from the results of the published study in the Journal of Hazardous Materials. In addition to the summary of its findings, EPA also is releasing its newly developed and validated analytical methodology used in the testing process. In its press release, EPA states it is “confident in the results of this newly released method, which is specifically targeted to detect the presence of PFAS in pesticide products formulated with surfactants.” For more information, please read the full memorandum.

Read more >> https://www.lawbc.com/regulatory-developments/entry/epa-completes-verification-analysis-of-pfas-scientific-testing-of-pesticide

OSHA Seeks Feedback on Effectiveness of Leading Indicators to Improve, Develop Resource Tool

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is asking for stakeholder input on their current use of leading indicators and their impact on managing their safety and health management systems. Leading indicators are proactive and preventive measures that can provide insight on the effectiveness of safety and health activities and reveal potential problems. They are vital in reducing worker fatalities, injuries, illnesses, and financial impacts.

As OSHA considers developing a Leading Indicators Resource, the agency welcomes stakeholders to share their experience and expertise and provide detailed feedback on how/where they are used at their workplace. OSHA is interested in various perspectives on stakeholders’ answers to questions, such as the following:

  • What leading indicators do you use?
  • What lagging indicators do you use (OSHA incident rates, for example)?
  • What leading indicators are, or could be, commonly used in your industry?
  • What metrics do you share with top management?
  • How do you determine the effectiveness of your leading indicators?
  • Do you link your leading indicators to outcome data, such as OSHA incident rates to evaluate results?
  • How could employers be encouraged to use leading indicators in addition to lagging indicators to improve safety management systems?
  • What barriers and challenges, if any, have you encountered to using leading indicators?

Individuals may submit comments at regulations.gov by July 17, 2023, which is the Federal eRulemaking Portal, identified by docket number OSHA-2023-0006. For more information, see the OSHA Trade Release.

2022 TRI Reporting Deadline Is July 1, 2023 — What Is New This Year?

Each year about this time, companies are focused on the deadline to submit Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This year is no different as the July 1, 2023, deadline is rapidly approaching. By this date, entities subject to the reporting requirement must submit data for activities that occurred during 2022. Companies are required to report if they meet chemical activity thresholds and are either in a covered industry sector and exceed the employee threshold; or are specifically required to report based on a determination by EPA under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) Section 313(b)(2). EPA’s TRI Threshold Screening Tool can help companies determine if they are subject to TRI reporting. The tool uses a step-by-step questionnaire to help companies determine whether they meet or exceed the facility, employee, and chemical thresholds established by EPA. For more information, please read the full memorandum.

Read more >> https://www.lawbc.com/regulatory-developments/entry/2022-tri-reporting-deadline-is-july-1-2023-what-is-new-this-year

PHMSA – Announces ICR Renewal for IBC’s and Portable Tanks

The agency published a request for comment on its plan to request renewal of six separate control numbers/ICR’s dealing with the manufacture, testing, and certification of both IBC’s and Portable Tanks. This will primarily affect manufacturers of such packagings.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, PHMSA invites comments on six Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control numbers pertaining to hazardous materials transportation. PHMSA intends to request renewal for these six control numbers from OMB. DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before July 21, 2023. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket Number PHMSA–2023–0029 (Notice No. 2023– 07) by any of the following methods: •Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.

Read more >> https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-05-22/pdf/2023-10857.pdf

Hazardous Materials: Harmonization With International Standards

PHMSA proposes to amend the Hazardous Materials Regulations to maintain alignment with international regulations and standards by adopting various amendments, including changes to proper shipping names, hazard classes, packing groups, special provisions, packaging authorizations, air transport quantity limitations, and vessel stowage requirements.

FR Citation: 88 FR 34568

Read the NPRM here

Published 5/30 comments by 7/31

Docket No. PHMSA-2021-0092 (HM-215Q)

Calls To Toughen Water Quality Rules After Sackett Face Many Doubts

President Joe Biden, environmentalists and others are pledging to work with federal agencies and states to toughen water quality rules after the Supreme Court significantly narrowed the scope of Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction, though such efforts face significant uncertainty in part because more than two dozen states are barred from adopting standards stricter than federal limits.

“There’s 30-some states whose legislatures have passed laws that say they can never be more stringent than the federal government, so the question would be, though, does that really apply in a situation where the federal government now no longer applies?” Betsy Southerland, a former water official at EPA now at the Environmental Protection Network, told Inside EPA.

Her comments come in response to the Supreme Court’s May 25 opinion in Sackett v. EPA, in which a 5-4 majority narrowed the definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS), ruling that only wetlands that are “indistinguishable” from adjacent jurisdictional waterbodies based on a “relatively permanent” surface-water connection are subject to regulation.

The decision overturned decades of high court precedent as well as the wetlands provisions in the Biden administration’s WOTUS rule, casting doubt on other elements of the policy as well.

And Southerland has also warned that the ruling will create regulatory uncertainty, arguing that while the court does provide certainty for what is — and is not — an “adjacent” water, it fails to clarify what kinds of CWA protections exist for “intermittent” waters, and what the court also means by the term “relatively permanent.”

–Inside EPA

High Court’s Sackett Ruling ‘Bodes Ill’ For EPA’s Bedrock Legal Authorities

The high court’s decision in Sackett v. EPA to significantly narrow the reach of the Clean Water Act (CWA) could have potential broad adverse impacts on EPA’s authority under other bedrock environmental laws, environmental lawyers say, pointing to a range of other statutory mandates that could be upended as a result of the ruling.

The majority opinion in Sackett “bodes ill for federal environmental regulatory programs of all stripes,” Robert Glicksman, environmental law professor at George Washington University, writes in a May 26 article in the George Washington Law Review.

He adds that the court’s 2022 decision in West Virginia v. EPA, which curtailed the agency’s Clean Air Act authority under the “major questions” doctrine, “took a chunk out of EPA’s regulatory authority under the Clean Air Act. Sackett significantly narrows the scope of the nation’s most important legislative vehicle for protecting water quality.”

As such, “the excisions the Court has made to the two most important federal pollution control laws make it clear that no environmental legislation is safe in the hands of this Court.”

The Supreme Court’s May 25 decision in Sackett v. EPA held that only wetlands that are “indistinguishable” from adjacent jurisdictional waterbodies are subject to regulation — overturning decades of high court precedent as well as the wetlands provisions in the Biden administration’s waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule and casting doubt on other elements of the policy.

–Inside EPA

OSHA and NIOSH Update Handbook for Small Businesses

Self-inspection checklists for ergonomics, young workers, workplace violence and infection control have been added to the OSHA/NIOSH Small Business Safety and Health Handbook.

The revised handbook features checklists on a wide variety of topics, including electrical safety, emergency planning, fire safety, hazard communication, heat illness prevention, noise exposure and fall protection. It also details how to implement a safety and health program and the value of having a program in place.

“Employers that make job safety and health a real part of their everyday operations will benefit in the long run,” the handbook states. “Investing in a safety and health program now will help you avoid possible losses in the future. A safe business is a sound business.”

See the Small Business Handbook Here.

OSHA to Hold Public Meeting June 15 to Discuss Modernizing, Improving, Expanding its Voluntary Protection Programs

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a stakeholder meeting on Thursday, June 15 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT, to discuss modernizing, improving and expanding the agency’s Voluntary Protection Programs. The public may attend the meeting in person in the Frances Perkins Building, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20210. Register to attend in person or virtually at VPP Stakeholder Meeting Registration by June 1. Virtual attendees will only be in listening mode; questions and comment opportunities will not be available.

The agency seeks input from stakeholders, regardless of whether they have had direct, indirect and no involvement with VPP facilities, on questions such as the following:

  • Are there leading indicators for measuring future performance of safety and health management systems?
  • How can OSHA encourage more employers to apply to VPP?
  • Aside from current customer experience surveys, how can OSHA solicit more frequent and timely feedback on the program?
  • Beyond the OSHA Challenge, how can the agency increase the use of effective safety and health management systems by companies not in the VPP?
  • How can OSHA improve the program’s quality or integrity?
  • Given OSHA’s limited resources, how can the agency grow VPP more efficiently?
  • In what ways, can safety and health consensus standards be used to create pathways for companies to participate in the VPP?

For more information, see the OSHA Trade Release.

Protecting Workers During National Safety Month

June marks the beginning of National Safety Month, which focuses on raising public awareness of the leading safety and health risks for workers and aims to decrease the number of injuries and fatalities in workplaces. While safety is important year-round, observances such as National Safety Month are paramount to raising awareness about safety and health hazards and creating an environment where workers and organizations can put safety first.

A safety-first workplace environment focuses on eliminating the leading causes of preventable injuries and deaths. By creating awareness of the risks and hazards and educating workers to conduct tasks safely, solutions can be made to help eliminate on-site risks.

In safety plans, PPE should be considered the last line of defense against injury. But while it is viewed as the last line of defense, it is still crucial to have head-to-toe PPE. Indeed, head-to-toe protection starts at the top. This National Safety Month, let’s review the head, face and eye protection needed when it comes to staying protected on the job.

Read more >> https://ohsonline.com/articles/2023/06/01/protecting-workers-during-national-safety-month.aspx?admgarea=magazine&m=1

–OHS

Beltway Buzz – Ogletree Deakins

Debt Ceiling Disaster Dodged. After months of political posturing, weeks of negotiating, and days of nail-biting, the U.S. Congress approved legislation to lift the debt limit to ensure continued payment of the nation’s bills. The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (H.R. 3746) passed the U.S. House of Representatives on May 31, 2023, by a vote of 314–117, and it passed the U.S. Senate on June 1, 2023, by a vote of 63–36. One hundred sixty-five Democrats joined 149 Republicans to get the bill across the finish line in the House, and 44 Democrats, 2 Independents, and 17 Republicans voted for the bill in the Senate. According to a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the measure will reduce the nation’s debt by about $1.5 trillion (over ten years) and save $188 billion in interest payments on the debt. The legislation accomplishes these savings by:

  • suspending the debt ceiling until January 1, 2025;
  • placing caps on discretionary spending (i.e., not Medicare/Medicaid or Social Security) for the 2024 and 2025 fiscal years;
  • rescind about $27 billion of unspent COVID-19 federal relief funds that had been provided to nearly ninety budget accounts;
  • recouping $1.4 billion appropriated for the Internal Revenue Service as authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022;
  • enacting work requirements for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps); and
  • lifting the COVID-19 student loan pause.

NLRB GC Targets Noncompete Agreements. Noncompete agreements remain a popular target for policymakers in Washington, D.C. The Federal Trade Commission has its proposal to ban noncompete agreements and Congress has the Workforce Mobility Act, a bill proposed this year in February. Now, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, through a memorandum issued on May 30, 2023, writes that she believes “[e]xcept in limited circumstances … the proffer, maintenance, and enforcement of” noncompete agreements violates the National Labor Relations Act. General Counsel Abruzzo’s theory is that noncompete provisions limit employees’ job opportunities, and thus chill employees:

  • “from concertedly threatening” to quit their current job—or actually quitting—to demand better working conditions;
  • “from concertedly seeking or accepting employment with a local competitor to obtain better working conditions”;
  • “from soliciting their co-workers to go work for a local competitor as part of a broader course of protected concerted activity”; and
  • “from seeking employment, at least in part, to specifically engage in protected activity with other workers at an employer’s workplace” (such as organizing a union at another employer’s workplace).

General Counsel Abruzzo suggests that narrowly tailored agreements designed to protect proprietary or trade secret information may be appropriate, but that avoiding competition from a former employee or an employer’s interest in retaining employees or protecting investments in training are unlikely to justify an over broad noncompete provision. The Board will have to adopt the general counsel’s theory in order for this to become Board policy. Jennifer G. BettsTobias E. SchlueterThomas M. StanekChristine Bestor Townsend, and Zachary V. Zagger have the details.

White House Holds Meeting on Employee Monitoring. Last week, the White House convened a meeting of policymakers and stakeholders “on the use of automated technologies by employers to surveil, monitor, evaluate, and manage their workers.” The meeting included White House officials, as well as officials from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, NLRB, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Scrutinized industries included “call centers, trucking, warehousing, home health care, and app-based ride sharing.” The meeting follows on the issuance of a request for information from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) seeking “comments from the public to better understand automated surveillance and management of workers, including its prevalence, purposes, deployment, and impacts, as well as opportunities for Federal agencies to work with employers, workers, and other stakeholders to ensure that these systems do not undermine workers’ rights, opportunities, access, health, or safety.” Those comments are due by June 15, 2023.

DOL Issues Letter on Calculating FMLA Leave. Fresh off the Memorial Day holiday weekend, on May 30, 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued an opinion letter on “how to calculate the amount of leave used when an employee takes leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) during a week with a holiday.” The letter first clarifies that because the actual workweek is the basis for employees’ leave entitlement, when an employee takes a full workweek of FMLA leave during a week that includes a holiday, the entire week counts as FMLA leave. However, if the employee takes intermittent leave (i.e., less than a full workweek), “the holiday is not counted as FMLA leave unless the employee was scheduled and expected to work on the holiday and used FMLA leave for that day.” The letter concludes that the holiday must be counted as part of the workweek when calculating the amount of FMLA leave used in order to avoid reducing the employee’s leave amount: “if the employee was not expected or scheduled to work on the holiday, the fraction of the workweek of leave used would be the amount of FMLA leave taken (which would not include the holiday) divided by the total workweek (which would include the holiday).”

Professional Certification Coalition

IHMM is a member of the PCC. The PCC monitors state and federal legislative and regulatory activity affecting professional certification on an ongoing basis. The PCC has compiled several “Watchlists” identifying and analyzing provisions in pending legislation at both the state and federal level that, under applicable rules, may still be enacted in the current legislative session.  Depending on the carry-over rules in the relevant legislature, the charts listing current legislation may include bills introduced in a prior year.  In addition, the PCC compiles each year a chart of enacted legislation that affects certification. The charts include hyperlinks to every bill or executive order. Note that the Watchlist and the Enacted Legislation document do not include profession-specific legislation and do not include regulatory initiatives. The charts will be updated as needed based on new developments.

Other State and Federal Activities

In this section we will highlight other state and federal government affairs activities undertaken by the committee.

Current Priorities April-June 2023

IHMM Credential Recognition

The highest priority of IHMM’s Government Affairs Committee is the recognition of IHMM’s credentials by government. We have made substantial progress in the two years we have undertaken this endeavor, as outlined in detail here > https://ihmm.org/credential-recognition/

In this project we have 45-in-5, increasing the number of states that recognize IHMM credentials.

  • We have already succeeded in 13 states – New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Indiana, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, Arkansas, Oklahoma. Ohio, North Dakota, and Georgia. [Red states in the map above]. These are states where IHMM credentials are cited or 40 CFR 312.10 is cited by reference.
  • We have partially succeeded in another 16 states – Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Florida, Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine. [Orange/Black Stripe states in the map above] These are states where the requirements of an “environmental professional” or QEP are cited that coincide with an IHMM credential so that relatively little work would need to be done to clarify the desired outcome.
  • We have 21 states where no reference to an IHMM credential is made in either statute or regulation, nor is there anything defined in the area of an environmental professional. These states will require legislation or regulatory work. [Yellow states in the map above].

in January 2022 Gene Guilford released the 40 CFR § 312.10 EPA regulation that states a private certification that meets or exceeds the requirements of the regulation is an Environmental Professional under the regulation. Here is the crosswalk between the 40 CFR § 312.10 EPA regulation and the Certified Hazardous Materials Manager [CHMM] blueprint. The CHMM meets or exceeds the requirements of an Environmental Professional. 

Here’s what we ask each volunteer to do:

  • Watch legislative and regulatory developments in your state that provide an opportunity for us to create amendments or other interventions
  • Be willing to speak with regulators and legislators in your area about the recognition efforts we craft together

Regulatory Updates

Notice of Public Meetings in 2023 for International Standards on the Transport of Dangerous Goods

PHMSA’s Office of Hazardous Materials Safety will be hosting public forums in advance of four international meetings, to allow the public to give input on current proposals being considered by the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Dangerous Goods Panel (DGP) and the United Nations Sub-Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UNSCOE TDG). The international meetings include:

  • The 62nd session of the UNSCOE TDG, scheduled for July 3 to July 7, 2023, in Geneva, Switzerland
  • The 29th session of the ICAO TDG, scheduled for November 13 to 17, 2023, in Montreal, Canada
  • The 63rd session of the UNSCOE TDG, scheduled for November 27 to December 6, 2023, in Geneva, Switzerland

Each of these public meetings will be held approximately two weeks before the corresponding international meeting. Specific information for each meeting, including date, time, conference call-in number, and details for advance registration will be posted when available on the PHMSA website under “Upcoming Events.” These meetings will be virtual, with hybrid options available as possible, pending public health guidelines.

The Federal Register announcement can be found here.

Save the Date for “TSCA Reform — Seven Years Later” on June 29, 2023

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®), the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health are pleased to announce the seventh annual Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) conference, “TSCA Reform — Seven Years Later,” to occur Thursday, June 29, 2023. This complimentary virtual conference featuring speakers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and non-governmental and industry stakeholders will provide updates on a host of topics, including the interface of science and policy under TSCA, new chemicals, risk evaluation and management, the regulation of articles, and more.

Materials from the 2022 “TSCA Reform — Six Years Later” conference are available to ELI Members at https://www.eli.org/events/tsca-reform-six-years-later.

  • RECORDED WEBINAR ON-DEMAND — “Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Regulations”: Panelists discuss the history and evolution of EPR legislation, expected developments that will affect the chemical and chemical product industry, and what companies need to know to prepare for these changes. Panelists included LeRoy (Lee) C. Paddock, Distinguished Professorial Lecturer of Environmental Law at the George Washington University Law School; Edith G. Nagy, Regulatory Consultant, B&C; and Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner, B&C. Watch now.

EPA Releases Congressional Justification For FY 2024 Budget: EPA has posted the justification for its fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriation estimates for the Committee on Appropriations (Congressional Justification (CJ)). According to the CJ, EPA’s FY 2024 budget includes $470.7 million and 1,677 full-time equivalents (FTE) for Objective 7.1, “Ensure Chemical and Pesticide Safety.” The CJ includes the following target dates for actions under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA):

  • By September 30, 2026, complete at least eight high-priority substance TSCA risk evaluations annually within statutory timelines compared to the FY 2020 baseline of one;
  • By September 30, 2026, initiate all TSCA risk management actions within 45 days of the completion of a final existing chemical risk evaluation; and
  • By September 30, 2026, review 90 percent of risk management actions for past TSCA new chemical substances reported to the 2020 Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) Rule compared to the FY 2021 baseline of none.

ECHA sees broad use of alternatives for chemical safety assessment

Our fifth report on the use of alternatives to testing on animals for the REACH Regulation shows that adaptations continue to be used more than experimental studies, with read-across being the most frequent option. In vitro non-animal test methods have seen a significant uptake in recent years. Have a look at our video for the key findings. Read more

Assessment of regulatory needs report published

Report for the following substance group is now available on our website:

If you have questions or feedback related to the assessment work, you can send them to us through this webform.

ECHA’s database on chemicals: check the latest updates in EUCLEF

The Drinking Water Directive (recast) (2020/2184/EU) has been added to EUCLEF, replacing the repealed Water for Human Consumption Directive (98/83/EC). In addition, EUCLEF has been updated with information on the:

Plant Protection Products (PPP) Regulation.

OSHA’s Safe + Sound Campaign is a nationwide opportunity to raise awareness and understanding of the value of proactive occupational safety and health (OSH) programs in all workplaces. Mark your calendars! Safe + Sound Week will take place from August 7-13, 2023. Safe + Sound Week is a nationwide event held each August that recognizes the successes of workplace health and safety programs and offers information and ideas on how to keep America’s workers safe. Registration for Safe + Sound Week opens in early July.  We look forward to your participation!

Safe + Sound emphasizes the need for safety programs at small- and mid-sized businesses, which are more likely to have limited resources dedicated to safety. As you know, effective OSH programs can help organizations identify and manage workplace risk before they cause injury or illness, improving sustainability and the bottom line. Safety and health management systems are a critical best practice to ensure that OSH programs achieve significant results and lower risk exposure.

Halt a Hazard

Workplace hazards can emerge over time. Setting aside time to regularly identify and rank safeguards can help keep safety and health hazards under control and keep workers safe.

  1. Identify ONE hazard to control within your workplace.
  2. Brainstorm potential controls using OSHA’s Identifying Hazard Control Options: The Hierarchy of Controls.
  3. Choose and implement which control(s) are most effective for your workplace.
  4. Download your challenge coin and share that you have completed the Halt a Hazard Challenge via email or on social media using #HaltAHazard and #SafeAndSoundAtWork!

Take the Challenge!

Beat the Heat

Under the OSH Act, employers are responsible for protecting workers from known hazards, including heat. Developing a heat injury and illness prevention plan is vital to keeping workers safe. Highlighting the dangers of heat is an important first step in educating workers and employers on how to prevent and recognize when heat is affecting workers’ health and safety. Since heat illness can be a medical emergency, planning and preparing for heat illness is essential to increase the chances of a positive outcome.

OSHA is sponsoring a Beat the Heat contest to raise awareness about the dangers and hazards of heat exposure in indoor and outdoor workplaces and to motivate workers, employers, and others to take action to prevent heat illness. To participate, stakeholders will create an awareness tool to increase worker and employer knowledge about hazardous heat in the workplace. The contest is open now, and submissions are due by June 9, 2023.

Enter the Contest!

Let Your Voice Be Heard: Safety as a Core Workplace Value Learning Conversation

OSHA is holding a National Learning Conversation that will provide a forum for OSHA to collect insights from workplaces and to identify needs, challenges, and best practices for adoption of safety and health as a core workplace value.

Registration for the National Listening Conversation is now open! The conversation will be held on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at the US Department of Labor, Francis Perkins Building in Washington, DC. OSHA plans to use this meeting to establish an open dialogue with stakeholders and is interested in receiving feedback. You must register in advance to present comments in-person during the meeting.

Register Now!

IHMM Scholarship Program

The Institute of Hazardous Materials Management is pleased to have created $32,000 in academic scholarships, divided equally between $16,000 for students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate education in approved schools and who are also Student CHMMs, and $16,000 for students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate education in approved schools and who are also Student ASHMs.

IHMM seeks to foster the growth and academic success of students whose courses of education, and participation in one of our Student certifications, will lead to those students becoming fully-certified IHMM credential holders later in their professional lives.

Go to >  https://ihmm.org/scholarship/

IHMM CHMMⓇ 2022 Salary Survey

IHMM is pleased to release its 2022 salary survey for Certified Hazardous Materials ManagersⓇ [CHMMⓇ] across a broad range of position titles in the CHMMⓇ community of practice.

You may download the CHMM survey here.

IHMM CSHMⓇ 2022 Salary Survey

IHMM is pleased to release its 2022 salary survey for Certified Safety and Health Managers Ⓡ [CSHMⓇ] across a broad range of position titles in the CSHMⓇ community of practice.

You may download the CSHM survey here.

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IHMM  – 26 Fellows Are Mentors 

IHMM Fellows Committee Chair Atanu Das, CHMM, is leading the effort within the IHMM Collaboration networking platform to engage both 26 IHMM Fellows as Mentors and anyone who seeks some assistance as Mentees.

Given the extraordinary experience Fellows have, this is a unique opportunity for IHMM Fellows to help guide more recent certificants in their professional development activities. This article from ASAE magazine outlines how a mentoring program can become more successful – engagement!

IHMM’s Collaboration platform contains a “Mentor Match” module [see below at right] that allows mentors to signup designating the hours, number of mentees, subject areas, and length of time they wish to mentor – as well as allowing mentees to signup requesting assistance in specified areas. The mentor match module does the rest by matching mentors and mentees.

#1 – Recertification Video
#2 Recertification Video

IHMM Recertification Videos

IHMM is pleased to release two YouTube instructional videos about navigating the IHMM recertification process. These step-by-step videos easily enable IHMM certificants to start and complete a recertification application.

While the full recertification cycle is 5 years, IHMM encourages all certificants to start a recertification application and add certification maintenance points as they are earned to make the final submission quick and easy to accomplish.

Retiring? IHMM Invites You to Become an Emeritus

You may have decided, after a long and successful career, to retire from active daily duty. Congratulations. That doesn’t mean you have to completely disengage from your profession. IHMM is pleased to offer Emeritus status to all certificants who will no longer be actively engaged in their communities of practice but who still want to stay in touch. Please let us know when you’re approaching that decision and we will assist you in the credential transition.

Please contact Jimmy Nguyen at [email protected] and he’ll be happy to help you.

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American Society of Safety Professionals

IHMM is a member of the American Society of Safety Professionals and is pleased to bring this important information to all of our certificants.

Registration Open – June 5-7, San Antonio

ASSP News

ASSP Webinars

ASSP Standards News

The U.S. TAG to ANSI for ISO TC283 approved ISO 45002 and ISO 45006 as ANSI registered technical reports.

  • ISO/ASSP TR 45002-2023:   Occupational health and safety management systems – General guidelines for the implementation of ISO 45001:2018
  • ISO/ASSP TR 45006-2023:  Occupational health and safety management – Guidelines for organizations on preventing and managing infectious diseases

At this point, the adoption process is complete.  We will conclude limited public review and then move forward with publication of ISO 45002 and ISO 45006 as an ANSI Registered Technical Report[s].

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SOCIETY

IHMM and HMS

The graphic to the left illustrates the relationship between IHMM and HMS. IHMM formed HMS to serve IHMM’s certificants. IHMM offers a variety of professional credentials and HMS creates education and training programs to serve the applicants and certificants of those credentials.

AIHA, HMS Training Partner, Adds Courses for IHMM Certificants

American Industrial Hygiene Association [AIHA] an HMS training partner, has added its first of many courses approved in advance for earning IHMM recertification certification maintenance points. We are pleased to promote these programs in support of IHMM certificants holding the CHMM, CHMP, CSHM, and CSMP credentials. Thank you, AIHA.

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Basic Principles of Occupational Hygiene

AIHAOnline
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Certificate Program: Use of Direct Reading Instruments

AIHAOnline
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How to Develop Creative Narrative for Better Training and Retention (AIHce EXP 2021 OnDemand)

AIHAOnline
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Electrical Safe Work Practices With Application of NFPA 70E PDC Recording

AIHAOnline
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Is Your Safety Training Good Enough? (AIHce EXP 2021 OnDemand)

AIHAOnline
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All About Leading, Lagging, and Predictive Indicators (AIHce EXP 2021 OnDemand)

AIHAOnline
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Elevating EHS Leading Indicators: From Defining to Designing Webinar Recording

AIHAOnline
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Increasing Risk Awareness and Leveraging Risk Management to Catalyze a Culture of Learning and Health (AIHce EXP 2021 OnDemand)

AIHAOnline
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Emergency Preparedness: Is the Workplace Truly Prepared for Emergencies? (AIHce EXP 2022 OnDemand)

AIHAOnline
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Mitigation Through Decontamination PDC Recording

AIHAOnline
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SDS & Label Authoring Course

AIHAOnline
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Empowering Industrial Hygienists With Systems Thinking for ISO 45001 Webinar Recording

AIHAOnline
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ISO 45001 OHSMS Update and Overview Webinar Recording

AIHAOnline
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Fire and Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries PDC Recording

AIHAOnline
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Decision Making in Managing Risk – Expand Context, Strengthen Skills PDC Recording

AIHAOnline
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Risk Assessment Virtual Conference Recordings (2021): Introduction to Risk Assessment

AIHAOnline
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Welding: An Exercise in Applied Industrial Hygiene

AIHAOnline

CHEMTREC, HMS Training Partner, Adds Courses for IHMM Certificants

CHEMTREC, an HMS training partner, has had 6 courses approved in advance for earning IHMM recertification certification maintenance points. We are pleased to promote these programs as reviewed and approved by the HMS Education and Training Committee, chaired by Diana Lundelius. Thank you CHEMTREC, and thank to HMS’ Education and Training Committee.

DailyGround Transportation for CarriersChemtrecOnline
DailyOSHA Hazard Communications StandardChemtrecOnline
DailyShipping Lithium Batteries and Cells TrainingChemtrecOnline
DailyHazmat General, Safety and Security Awareness Online Training CourseChemtrecOnline
DailyIATA Dangerous Goods Online Training for OperationsChemtrecOnline
Daily49 CFR TrainingChemtrecOnline
DailyIATA Dangerous Goods Online Training for Operations PersonnelChemtrecOnline

Bowen EHS, HMS Training Partner, Adds Courses for IHMM Certificants

Bowen EHS, an HMS training partner, has had 4 courses approved in advance for earning IHMM recertification certification maintenance points. We are pleased to promote these programs as reviewed and approved by the HMS Education and Training Committee, chaired by Diana Lundelius. Thank you Bowen EHS and thank to HMS’ Education and Training Committee.

Thank you Bowen EHS for contributing programs enabling IHMM certificants to engage in professional development and earn important CMPs! All three of the new Bowen EHS programs are available online and on demand.

DailyEPCRA Tier II ReportingBowen EHSOnline
DailyCHMM Online ReviewBowen EHSOnline
DailyEmergency Management Self-Paced PDCBowen EHSOnline
DailyAcute Toluene Exposure WebinarBowen EHSOnline

Thank you Bowen EHS for contributing programs enabling IHMM certificants to engage in professional development and earn important CMPs! All three of the new Bowen EHS programs are available online and on demand.

Respiratory Protection Program Management – Susan Harwood Training Grant

University of Texas Medical Branch, William J. Pate, CHMM

This training course is intended to educate participants on the requirements of developing and implementing a compliant Respiratory Protection Program. The focus of this course will be on topics related to preparation for an infectious disease pandemic. At the end of this training the attendee should be able to:
1) Manage an effective respiratory protection program through proficient application of 29 CFR 1910.134
2) Compare potential routes of exposure
3) Identify and implement potential controls (engineering, administrative, and PPE)
4) List the equipment needed to support fit testing
5) Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative fit testing
6) Discuss the different types of respiratory protection available
7) Demonstrate correct donning/doffing of respiratory protection

This training course is 7.5 hours and participants will receive a certificate of completion that may be suitable for professional certification maintenance (CSP, CIH, CHMM, CHSP, etc.).

This course will provide 7.5 Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) contact hours. Accreditation statement: University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is approved with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Louisiana State Nurses Association –  Approver, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. LSNA Provider No. 4002176

This training is available only to employees and employers who are subject to OSHA regulatory requirements.  Grant-funded training is not available to state or local government employees unless they have occupational safety & health responsibilities (e.g. occupational safety and health trainers, program managers, committee members, or employees responisble for abating unsafe and unhealthy working conditions for their organization).  Registration in this course confirms that meet these conditions.  This training will include the opportunity to don, doff, and fit test respiratory protection including N95, half-face, full-face, and powered air-purifying respirators.  Anyone participating in this training and wanting to put on a respirator agrees that they have been medically cleared by their employer to do so in accordance with OSHA’s Respiratory Protection Standard.

The 8-hour training program is offered at various dates from March through September. For more information and registration for this FREE program go here >> https://www.utmb.edu/ehs/programs/radiation-occupational-safety-program/RPPSHTG2023

FREE US DOT PHMSA HMIT GRANT HAZARDOUS MATERIALS REGULATIONS AWARENESS TRAINING WORKSHOP – 24 IHMM CMPs

Courses are here>  Go to https://hazmatsociety.org/education-training/  Under “Find Training,” Search for NPETE>

These workshops are offered with U.S. DOT PHMSA HMIT (Hazardous Materials Instructor Training) Grant support to the National Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (National PETE). This training is FREE for employees and federal, state, county, and local government employees involved in DOT HazMat Shipping, Receiving and Handling via Ground, Air, and Vessel Transportation.

The workshop curriculum is in accordance with 49 CFR § 172.704 for General Awareness, Function-Specific, Safety, and Security Awareness training requirements. Class size is limited to 10-15 students with mask/social distancing protocols, so act fast. Minimum of 6 attendees is needed to confirm the class.

Registration: Contact Mr. Raymond Davis, CHMM, IHMM Fellow, NPETE US DOT PHMSA HMIT Grant Project Coordinator/Instructor at [email protected]

Please provide Mr. Davis with the following registration information via email to [email protected]

Your name, Your company, Your company address/city/state/zip, Phone number, and Email

Upon receipt of your registration information, the address of the training location will be provided.

Easily Find Courses to Help You Pass IHMM Credential Exams

A core mission of HMS is education and training. Part of that mission includes assembling the best and most effective courses to assist IHMM applicants in passing their IHMM credential exams.
CDGP® Prep Course
  1. CE-1112: CDGP® Exam Prep – Columbia Southern University – Available On Demand
CHMM® Prep Courses
  1. Oct. 24-25 – CHMM Prep Course – PTP Consulting
  2. Daily – CHMM® Online Review – Bowen
  3. Daily – CHMM® Prep Course – Institute of Safety & Systems Management
  4. Daily –Certified Hazardous Materials Managers (CHMM®) Exam Prep – SPAN Exam Prep, Division of ClickSafety
CSHM® Prep Courses
  1. Certified Safety and Health Manager® (CSHM®) Exam Preparation Course – VUBIZ – Available on Demand
CSMP® Prep Courses
  1. Certified Safety Management Practitioner® [CSMP®] Exam Preparation Course – VUBIZ – Available on Demand

IHMM and HMS Tie Exam Preparation Together for Applicants

Every IHMM certification that requires an examination has a section of its website entitled Examination Preparation.

Connected to the Examination Preparation panel is a companion panel that is Find a Course to Prepare for the Exam.

You see the Find a Course to Prepare for the Exam panel from the CHMM site at left.

When you click on the Find a Course to Prepare for the Exam panel it takes the applicant directly to the HMS site where all CHMM prep courses may be found and chosen.

For the 392 CHMM applicants IHMM had on April 4, 2023, all 392 looking for CHMM prep courses could see and chose their favored CHMM exam prep course. If your course is not on the HMS platform, none of the 392 CHMM applicants could find you.

If you want your CHMM prep course on the HMS platform so it can be found by IHMM CHMM applicants, contact Gene Guilford at [email protected]

HMS Makes Finding Courses to Earn CMPs Easy

Every year more than 1,600 IHMM certificants have to recertify their credentials, evidenced their continuing commitment to improvement and learning to elevate their professional credential.

Earning Certification Maintenance Points [CMPs] is illustrated under Recertification of Your Credential, that includes the Recertification Claims Manual – Appendix A, that details all of the ways a certificant may earn CMPs > https://ihmm.org/recertification-claims/

Having mastered that manual, how does an IHMM certificant find courses to earn CMPs?

HMS has made that simple and easy.

  1. Go to https://hazmatsociety.org/education-training/
  2. Scroll down until you see a row of buttons…click on the CMPs button

The system will then generate all of the courses on the HMS E&T platform with IHMM CMPs already attached.

The next developments by the HMS E&T committee will refine available courses’ CMPs by individual credential!

HMS Certified Dangerous Goods Professional [CDGP] Exam Prep

The Columbia Southern University/HMS CDGP prep course is found here on the Hazardous Materials Society [HMS] education and training website > https://hazmatsociety.org/training/ce-1112-cdgp-exam-prep/2022-02-02/

The CSU CDGP exam prep course is delivered entirely online and may be initiated by any CDGP applicant at any time. The CDGP applicant has up to 10 weeks to complete the prep course, though an extension of the 10 weeks may be requested from CSU directly. The CSU CDGP exam prep course contains 8 modules covering the 4 principle texts involved in the CDGP exam, as follows:

  • UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, and
  • International Civil Aviation Organization’s Technical Instructions (ICAO TI), and
  • International Air Transport Association’s Dangerous Goods Regulations (IATA DGR), and the
  • International Maritime Organization’s Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG Code).

More information on the IHMM Certified Dangerous Goods Professional [CDGP] credential may be found here > https://ihmm.org/cdgp/

Applications for the 2023 HMS Scholarship Awards Now Open

The HMS scholarship award is given annually to undergraduate and graduate students whose academic program and research studies have the potential to address the most serious issues in handling hazardous materials, dangerous goods, environmental issues, health & safety challenges. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents enrolled in accredited U.S. academic institutions.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT SCHOLARSHIP AWARD APPLICATIONS IS December 1, 2023. All submissions and associated materials must be submitted using the online form.

Scholarship Winners Will Be Announced at the HMS Annual Meeting.

For More Information, Visit > https://hazmatsociety.org/scholarship/

Donate to HMS

One of the most important projects of the Hazardous Materials Society is our Scholarship Program.

HMS wants to make it as easy as possible for those who cannot always afford to participate in pursuing certification, or keeping up with professional development, or attending great conferences and receiving outstanding training. HMS does not solicit contributions from the general public. HMS does ask IHMM’s certificants and their companies and our education and training vendors to consider a contribution.

Here, through your generosity, you can make a difference in promoting the ability of those who can afford it least to become participants in our communities of practice.

It’s never too late to make a difference, so don’t let this opportunity to make a difference pass you by. Please consider a tax-deductible donation of $250, $500 or what you can to help build HMS’s effort to help others in our communities of practice.

RCM&D Professional Liability Insurance

HMS is proud to have partnered with RCM&D to be able to offer an outstanding comprehensive professional liability insurance program to IHMM certificants. Here, you will find information about this important program offering Environmental Consultants and Engineers Professional Liability coverage. This coverage is intended to add protection for loss stemming from actual or alleged negligent acts, errors and omissions in performing professional services.

For more information see > https://hazmatsociety.org/professional-liability-insurance/

Member Benefits of Hazardous Materials Society

99% of IHMM certificants are aware of the Hazardous Materials Society, which we appreciate. IHMM established the Hazardous Materials Society in order to support and provide services to IHMM certificants.

Did You Know?

Your company’s membership dues for Associate Membership in the Hazardous Materials Society (HMS) are 100% tax-deductible and your participation directly supports scholarship and education/training opportunities for professionals working in hazmat and EHS. Joining as an Associate Member expresses your commitment and your company’s leadership in giving back to our professional community. Join today to claim your tax deduction for the 2020 tax year while expressing your company’s professional affiliation and accessing tools for your marketing and business development plans.

As an IHMM certificant, you pay no dues to take advantage of IHMM’s Foundation at HMS. We do appreciate IHMM’s certificants encouraging their companies to contribute.

To learn more about what HMS is doing now and what they are planning for the future, please see the new Member Benefits page here.

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Columbia Southern University

The Hazardous Materials Society [HMS] is a partner of Columbia Southern University. Columbia Southern University is an online university based in Orange Beach, Alabama, that strives to change and improve lives through higher education by enabling students to maximize their professional and personal potential.

A subsidiary of Columbia Southern Education Group, CSU offers online degree programs at the associate, bachelor, master, doctorate or certificate levels in a multitude of areas such as occupational safety and health, fire administration, criminal justice, business administration, human resource management, health care administration and more. CSU also features undergraduate and graduate certificate programs to provide focused training in specialized areas for adult learners.

Click on the CSU graphic at left and learn more about the professional development and degree program opportunities at CSU.

IHMM CONFERENCES FOR 2023

IHMM will attend and support a number of conferences and trade shows throughout 2023, virtually as well as in-person as resources allow. Below are some of the conferences IHMM will support in 2023.

Are there conferences you believe IHMM should attend that do not appear here? If so, let us know by sending an email to [email protected]

CUHMMC 41st Annual Conference

Oregon State University, Corvalis, Oregon

August 6-11, 2023

AHMP 36th Annual Conference

Omaha, NE

August 27-30, 2023

National Safety Council Congress & Expo

New Orleans, LA

October 23-25, 2023

FET Annual Conference

Milwaukee Marriott West

October 31-Nov 2, 2023

HMS EVENTS CALENDAR

IHMM has a companion organization for which education and training programs are presented and delivered.  The Hazardous Materials Society is IHMM’s Professional Association and HMS’ education and training website can be found here. These events are produced independently of IHMM, and their providers have no access to IHMM certification examinations or program information other than that which is publicly available.

DateEventEvent ProducerLocation
DailyCHMM Exam Prep CourseInstitute of Safety & Systems Management

Online

DailyCE 1112- IHMM CDGP Exam Prep (online) Columbia Southern University

Online

DailyCE 1102- Industrial Hygiene for Safety Professionals (online) Columbia Southern University

Online

DailyCE 1105: Maritime Hazardous Materials Inventory Columbia Southern University

Online

DailyDOT NON-Bulk Training Compliance Associates

Online

DailyWebinar IATA Dangerous Goods Training Compliance Associates

Online

DailyOSHA 30 Construction (Online) ClickSafety

Online

DailyHAZWOPER Refresher (Online) ClickSafety

Online

DailyHAZWOPER 40-Hour All Industries (Online) ClickSafety

Online

DailyHAZWOPER 24-Hour All Industries (Online) ClickSafety

Online

Daily8-Hour HAZWOPER Refresher Course Hazmat School

Online

DailyDOT Hazmat Employee with Packaging Course Hazmat School

Online

DailyRCRA Hazardous Waste Generator Online Training Course Hazmat School

Online

DailyOSHA Asbestos Awareness TrainingHazmat School

Online

DailyCHMM Online Review Bowen

Online

DailyOnsite Lithium Battery TrainingCompliance Associates

Online

DailyOnsite ADR TrainingCompliance Associates

Online

DailyWebinar ADR TrainingCompliance Associates

Online

DailyOSHA Confined Space Operations TrainingHazmat School

Online

DailyIATA/IMDG Certification TrainingDGI

Online

DailyDangerous Goods Shipping Private WebinarDGI

Online

DailyCSHM Exam Prep CourseVubiz

Online

DailyCSMP Exam Prep CourseVubiz

Online

DailyGround Transportation for CarriersChemtrec

Online

DailyOSHA Hazard Communications StandardChemtrec

Online

DailyShipping Lithium Batteries and Cells TrainingChemtrec

Online

DailyHazmat General, Safety and Security Awareness Online Training Course Chemtrec

Online

DailyIATA Dangerous Goods Online Training for Operations Chemtrec

Online

Daily49 CFR TrainingChemtrec

Online

DailyIATA Dangerous Goods Online Training for Operations PersonnelChemtrec

Online

DailyOnline 2-Hour OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen TrainingHazmat School

Online

DailyOnline Heat Illness Prevention TrainingHazmat School

Online

DailyOnline OSHA 24-Hour HAZWOPER Training CourseHazmat School

Online

DailyEPCRA Tier II ReportingBowen EHS

Online

DailyEHS Training Self-Paced PDCBowen EHS

Online

DailyEmergency Management Self-Paced PDCBowen EHS

Online

DailyAcute Toluene Exposure WebinarBowen EHS

Online

DailyDangerous Goods Regulations [DGR] Initial Category 6IATA

Online

DailyBasic Principles of Occupational HygieneAIHA

Online

Daily

Certificate Program: Use of Direct Reading Instruments

AIHA

Online

Daily

How to Develop Creative Narrative for Better Training and Retention (AIHce EXP 2021 OnDemand)

AIHA

Online

Daily

Electrical Safe Work Practices With Application of NFPA 70E PDC Recording

AIHA

Online

Daily

Is Your Safety Training Good Enough? (AIHce EXP 2021 OnDemand)

AIHA

Online

Daily

All About Leading, Lagging, and Predictive Indicators (AIHce EXP 2021 OnDemand)

AIHA

Online

Daily

Elevating EHS Leading Indicators: From Defining to Designing Webinar Recording

AIHA

Online

Daily

Increasing Risk Awareness and Leveraging Risk Management to Catalyze a Culture of Learning and Health (AIHce EXP 2021 OnDemand)

AIHA

Online

Daily

Emergency Preparedness: Is the Workplace Truly Prepared for Emergencies? (AIHce EXP 2022 OnDemand)

AIHA

Online

Daily

Mitigation Through Decontamination PDC Recording

AIHA

Online

Daily

SDS & Label Authoring Course

AIHA

Online

Daily

Empowering Industrial Hygienists With Systems Thinking for ISO 45001 Webinar Recording

AIHA

Online

Daily

ISO 45001 OHSMS Update and Overview Webinar Recording

AIHA

Online

Daily

Fire and Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries PDC Recording

AIHA

Online

Daily

Decision Making in Managing Risk – Expand Context, Strengthen Skills PDC Recording

AIHA

Online

Daily

Risk Assessment Virtual Conference Recordings (2021): Introduction to Risk Assessment

AIHA

Online

Daily

Welding: An Exercise in Applied Industrial Hygiene

AIHA

Online

Daily

Response Considerations During an Outbreak or Pandemic

FEMA           Online
Daily

Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response Awareness Course

FEMA           Online
June 13, 2023

Respiratory Protection Program Management – Susan Harwood Grant

UTMB

SETRAC Conference Room 1111 N Loop W #160 Houston, TX

June 14, 2023IATA Transportation of Dangerous Goods by AirPTP Consulting

Online

June 27-29, 2023

2023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness Course

NPETE

South Charleston, WV

July 11-13, 2023

2023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness Course

NPETE

Savannah, GA

July 11, 2023

Respiratory Protection Program Management – Susan Harwood Grant

UTMB

Clear Lake, TX

July 18, 2023

Respiratory Protection Program Management – Susan Harwood Grant

UTMB

Angleton-Danbury Campus, TX

July 18-20, 2023

2023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness Course

NPETE

Oakbrook Terrace, IL

July 24-25, 2023

Shipping Lithium Batteries by Air (Live Virtual Classroom)

IATA

Online

July 25-27, 2023

2023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness Course

NPETE

Shawnee, KS

Aug 1, 2023

Respiratory Protection Program Management – Susan Harwood Grant

UTMB

Clear Lake Campus, TX

Aug 1-3, 2023

2023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness Course

NPETE

Marion, OH

Aug 8-10, 2023

2023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness Course

NPETE

Cheraw, SC

Aug 14-15, 2023

Shipping Lithium Batteries by Air (Live Virtual Classroom)

IATA

Online

Aug 15-17, 2023

2023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness Course

NPETE

Greenfield, OH

Aug 21-23, 2023

2023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness Course

NPETE

Medina, OH

Aug 25-27, 2023

2023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness Course

NPETE

Omaha, NE

Aug 29-31, 20232023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness CourseNPETE           Miami, FL
Sept 6-8, 2023

2023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness Course

NPETE

Chattanooga, TN

Sept 11-12, 2023

Shipping Lithium Batteries by Air (Live Virtual Classroom)

IATA

Online

Sept 12, 2023

Respiratory Protection Program Management – Susan Harwood Grant

UTMB

Clear Lake Campus, TX

Sept 14, 2023

Respiratory Protection Program Management – Susan Harwood Grant

UTMB

Clear Lake Campus, TX

Sept 12-14, 2023

2023 PHMSA HMIT Grant 24-Hour DOT HAZMAT Regulations Awareness Course

NPETE

Andover, MA

October 24-25, 2023CHMM Prep CoursePTP Consulting

Swedesboro, NJ

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2023-06-06T13:08:25+00:00

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