IHMM Today January 26, 2021

IHMM UPDATES

HMS Launches Professional Liability Insurance Program

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.

Learn more here > https://hazmatsociety.org/professional-liability-insurance/

State of Nebraska Recognizes the CHMM

The State of Nebraska under 178 NAC Chapter 24 of the Department of Health and Human Services regulations recognizes the CHMM as eligible for remediation services.

IHMM appreciates the recognition of the CHMM by the State of Nebraska and appreciates Mary Duda for working on this 45 In 5 project with IHMM. See next story.

IHMM & AHMP Launch 45 in 5 – National Credential Recognition – 21 States Targeted

On December 15, 2020, IHMM and AHMP gathered the first round of 31 state volunteers to scope out what we need to do and how we need to do it. For their next meeting in January, we begin outlining the strategy to go after 21 states.

This is just the beginning. Here is the present composition of the 45 In 5 Task Force and the states we are focusing on. More people may volunteer anytime!  https://ihmm.org/45-in-5-task-force/

In 2019 Mark Bruce from AHMP and Gene Guilford from IHMM worked on a project to get the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to recognize the CHMM and CDGT credentials. With Mark’s work on the ground in  Pennsylvania, we succeeded. We have already succeeded in 7 states.

In the four weeks since the launch, we have added Delaware, Florida, Texas, California, Washington, Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Iowa, North Carolina, Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and New Mexico as the next states for us to work on with 42 volunteers.

Now Mark at AHMP and Gene at IHMM has launched 45 in 5, getting the other 45 states to recognize our credentials in 5 years. If we can find a volunteer like Mark in 45 other states we can work with those volunteers on crafting the right message to the right agencies in state governments across the country. If we find enough volunteers we can get this done in less than 5 years.

Here’s what we ask each volunteer to do:

• Take a template letter we write and send it to the right people at the right agencies of state governments
• IHMM & AHMP will identify the agencies and the people to contact
• Follow up after sending the letter
• IHMM will engage all of our certificants and AHMP will engage all of its members in each state to communicate with the agencies in support of the recognition

The Task Force meets on January 25, 2021, to begin laying the foundation of the strategy to work with these states.

IHMM News Recent Updates

• IATA Travel Pass Key to Reopening Borders Safely

• Executive Office of the President – Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Mask Wearing [Jan 20, 2021]

• Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety (Jan 21, 2021)

• Executive Office of the President – Economic Relief [Jan 22, 2021]

• Democrats Weighing Next Stimulus Package

• Pres Biden Asks DOJ to Pause Pres Trump-era Rules

• White House Orders Freeze of New Rules

• EPA Completes Final Risk Evaluation for PV29, Finding Unreasonable Risks to Workers and ONUs from Ten Uses

• U.S. DOT Leadership Announced

• Reauthorized PHMSA Seems Set for Renewed Environmental Emphasis Under Biden

• EPA and OSHA Sign MOU Regarding EPA’s Review of New Chemicals under TSCA

• Proposition 65: OEHHA Proposes Significant Changes to “Short-Form” Warnings

• Sustainable Chemistry Research and Development Act Passed as Part of National Defense Authorization Act

• U.S. Department of Labor Reminds Specific Employers to Submit Required 2020 Injury and Illness Data by March 2, 2021

• Emergency Preparedness and Prevention under the U.S. Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule

• PPE Waste Disposal a Growing Pandemic Challenge

• Safety and Health Procedures in Medical Waste Management

• Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act is Impacting the Ink Industry

• EPA -Risk Evaluation for C.I. Pigment Violet 29

• Chemical Security: Overlapping Programs Could Better Collaborate to Share Information and Identify Potential Security Gaps

• Three Must-Haves for Managing These Common Hazardous-Materials Returns

HMS and Earning Certification Maintenance Points [CMPs]

IHMM created HMS, in large measure, so that IHMM certificants could have one, central place within which to find professional development courses in which to earn certification maintenance points. HMS courses cover all of IHMM’s 8 credentials, not only one.

We’ve made it easy to find CMPs.

• Go to https://hazmatsociety.org/
• Go to the Education and Training tab
• Scroll down until you see these buttons…and click on the CMPs button

• The system will produce a listing of the programs on the platform that have already been reviewed and given CMP ratings. You can find the programs suitable for you.

For example, one of the programs is from Columbia Southern University, offered online, has 36 CMPs attached, and is FREE. This is only one example. There are hundreds of programs on HMS.

My name is LeRoy Demarest, and I am an associate professor at the Graduate School of University of Maryland Global Campus. I teach the Capstone Course in the Environmental Management Master’s Degree program. 

I wanted to reach out to the community to see if there would be any interest in partner with us in the Capstone project for this class, which consists of a small group of students working with an organization with the goal of assisting that organization in an environmental management or sustainability project of the organization’s need, ultimately providing a document with all the research, analysis, and recommendations on that project. The idea is that the students would act as interns, working on a project within the scope of the environmental management overall umbrella. 

Please note that this course is taught entirely online, the students are all working adults, most in the environmental management field and many in the military, and most of the group’s communication with the agency would be by email, and to some extent by Zoom or conference calls as well. 

The students will work completely free of charge and the organization’s point of contact will specify the scope of the work, supply relevant background material and coach – with myself – the group throughout the project. 

The time commitment is about thirty minutes per week (some weeks will require much less than that), beginning approximately in June of 2021 with a duration of about eight weeks. The sponsoring organization would also be required to critique and grade the final Capstone project. Please note that the School is open to suggestions, modifications and alternatives that would maximize the utility of the students’ work and minimize the time required of the staff. 

Examples of past projects include:

• A critique of an organization’s stormwater management plan
  § Creation of a Soil Health Curriculum for an after-school program focused on environmental education
  § Literature search to identify potential markets for something that the organization now pays to dispose
  § Recommendations on an environmental nonprofit organization’s website as how to reach out more effectively to the local community and attract donors/volunteers
  

It would be a great professional learning experience for our students to be able to work with the on an environmental management or sustainability project of your needs. If there is any additional information or clarification I may provide, please let me know. Thank you very much for considering our request.

Sincerely,

LeRoy Demarest, MS, CSP, CHMM, Collegiate Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Management Program, [email protected]

30 Years as a CHMM

As IHMM enters 2021 we are organizing to recognize those who have reached an incredible milestone – 30 years as a CHMM. IHMM was formed in 1984, so the credential IHMM has of the greatest longevity is the CHMM.

Today, IHMM has 203 outstanding professionals who are still active and have their CHMM. Over the next few months, we look forward to sharing our gratitude and the remarkable work of our 30-year CHMMs.

In addition, IHMM will be creating 30-year, 20-year, and 10-year badges that will be inserted in every certificant’s MYIHMM record to commemorate their service.

Congratulations to the 203 and we look forward to sharing who you are and what you have done!

An addendum to the 62nd edition of the IATA DGR has been issued. This addendum includes:

• The addition of an allowance for operators to carry onboard an aircraft alcohol-based hand sanitizers and cleaning products (DGR 2.5);
• Removal from the provisions of the regulations COVID-19 vaccines containing GMO or GMMO (DGR 3.9.2.5); and
• Addition of special provision A220 to except packages containing COVID-19 vaccines accompanied by data loggers and/or cargo tracking devices from the need to bear the lithium battery mark.

In addition, the IATA addendum includes new and revised State and operator variations and corrections to the 62nd edition of the DGR.

The addendum will remain effective until 31 December 2021.

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HMS UPDATES

HMS Donations

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.

HMS Education and Training

Hazardous Materials Society now has 14,628 education and training programs on its website https://hazmatsociety.org/education-training/ with more coming every week. Certificants will note that most of these programs carry a CMP value, making it easier to know in advance what to expect. The HMS Education and Training platform also provides a wide variety of courses for professional development across all of IHMM’s credentials – and more are being developed by the HMS Education and Training Committee.

This is the center of education and training for IHMM certificants and prospective certificants. Among these more than 15.000 programs are webinars delivered online and virtually all carry IHMM CMPs values with them for your annual / 5-year CMP planning. SEE: https://hazmatsociety.org/education-training/

HMS Affinity Programs –  RCM&D Professional Liability Insurance

With more than 27,000 people – here is where HMS leverages our numbers for member’s benefit. There is strength and value in numbers and that translates into lower costs for you.

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.