EHS Professional – February 22, 2024

Thursday, February 22, 2024

EHS Professional is an online publication of the Institute of Hazardous Materials Management (IHMM).

Other than content specifically provided by IHMM, articles contained in EHS Professional are compiled from independent sources and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of IHMM.

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Certified Pandemic Preparedness Specialist™ (CPPS)

America and the World were not prepared for COVID-19, and according to the federal government, we are not ready for the next pandemic. IHMM has created the Certified Pandemic Preparedness Specialist™ [CPPS™] microcredential as our contribution to being prepared for the next pandemic. 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 operations.

More about the CPPS here

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IHMM Credential Recognition

Below you will see the EHS credential badges that are now in each CSHM, CSMP, ASHM, CSSM, and Student ASHM 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/.

EHS/Workplace Safety Credentials
Microcredentials

Certified Safety & Health Manager

Certified Safety Management Practitioner

Associate Safety and Health Manager

Certified Pandemic Preparedness Specialist

Certified School Safety Manager

Student Associate Safety and Health 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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Inside IHMM

IHMM Enters Its 40th Year

On December 3, 1984 the Institute of Hazardous Materials Management was created with the Certified Hazardous Materials Manager® [CHMM®] credential.  John H. Frick, Harold M. Gordon, John J. McCambridge, and Richard A. Young created what would become an Institute that offers 11 professional credentials across Hazardous Materials/Dangerous Goods and EHS Work Place Safety communities of practice in all 50 of the United States and 85 other countries.

IHMM thanks its hundreds of volunteer leaders, thousands of certificants and companies who support IHMM through strengthening its ability to extend its reach and allow us all to live up to why we exist our vision, and our mission…

Why We Exist

We believe there is only one Earth; our passion is to protect it.

Our Vision

IHMM credentials and competency standards are embraced worldwide

Our Mission

IHMM sets standards of excellence for professional credentials to advance the global environmental, health, and safety communities of practice.

There are 925,962 full-time occupational health and safety job openings in the United States via ZipRecruiter today – 29,000 of which pay more than $85,000 a year for CSHMs or CSMPs

IHMM Recertification Videos

Recert Video #1

Recert Video #2

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.

Full recertification information is found here >>  https://ihmm.org/credentials/#recertification 

Questions about your recertification may be made to either Jimmy Nguyen [email protected] of Jelian Larbi [email protected]

The Dr. John H Frick Memorial IHMM Scholarship Program – Closed for 2023 –  Deadline 10/15/2023 – Re Opens in 2024

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/

A Collaborative Culture

There are 1,253 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 Organizing Broader Government Affairs Activities – Call for Volunteers

In strategic planning on August 17, 2023 IHMM created a strategic imperative to create a broader government affairs operation on behalf of, and with the assistance of, all of IHMM’s certificants.

  • Federal Government  – Regulatory
    We need a group of people watching Federal regulatory developments to advise when taking action can be helpful and raise our visibility in the agencies.
  • Federal Government – Congress
    We need a group of people watching legislation to advise us when taking action can be helpful and raise our visibility in Congress.
  • State Governments – Regulatory
    We need a group of people watching state regulatory developments to advise when taking action can be helpful and raise our visibility in the agencies.
  • State Governments – Legislatures
    We need a group of people watching legislation to advise us when taking action can be helpful and raise our visibility in state legislatures.

If you want to make a difference in the recognition of your credentials and build on the successful record we have achieved thus far – we need you to volunteer. Learn more by visiting our Government Affairs Committee page, and get involved with government affairs. You can volunteer for one, two, three or all four of the segments of the committee’s work. That’s up to you!

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.

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.

IHMM Government Affairs

IHMM To Propose Changes in Government Recognition of Credentials

State of Maine Department of Environmental Protection is proposing to update Chapter 851, Standards for Generators of Hazardous Waste. In the current regulation work is required by a professional engineer. IHMM is proposing to include an environmental professional as defined by 40 CFR §312.10.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has a number of courses in occupational safety and health within which OSHA credits “A degree in occupational safety and health, a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) designation.” IHMM will propose including the CHMM, CSHM, and CSMP.

Beltway Buzz, Ogletree Deakins

Congress: House Departs With Funding Deadline on the Horizon. This week, the U.S. Senate passed a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan that did not include the immigration-related provisions the Buzz discussed last week. It is unclear at this moment how the U.S. House of Representatives plans to address the bill. It may be a while before we know more, too, as the House is out for its Washington’s Birthday recess and not scheduled to return until February 28, 2024. (The Senate returns two days earlier on February 26.) This leaves little time for legislators to pass legislation to keep the federal government from partially shutting down on March 1, 2024. And funding for the remainder of the federal government—including the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—is set to expire one week later, on March 8, 2024.

OSHA Walkaround Reg. Moves Forward. On February 9, 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) transmitted its final “walkaround” regulation to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for review. This is the final step in the rulemaking process and indicates that publication of the final rule will happen shortly. The Buzz expects one or more employer groups to file a legal challenge to the final rule. In addition to the employer community, the proposal remains controversial among Republicans on Capitol Hill. In a February 12, 2024, letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, wrote the following:

The proposed walkaround rule puts politics first by promoting Big Labor’s interests, interferes in labor-management relations, increases costs, puts union bosses ahead of workers, and overturns longstanding regulations. DOL should stop putting its political goal of promoting unionization at all costs ahead of keeping workers safe.

Top Senate HELP Committee Republican Wants Hearing for Su. Senate Republicans continue to express concerns that President Biden’s renomination of Julie Su to be secretary of labor circumvents their advice and consent function. This week, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) requested that Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), hold a hearing on Su’s renomination:

Therefore, I respectfully request that you hold a hearing for Ms. Su’s renomination so that Senators may question her record, and that you hold a public mark-up on her nomination. Any other act will circumvent this Committee’s constitutionally mandated advice and consent role for Presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed (PAS) positions.

Senator Cassidy maintains that a hearing is necessary because “Ms. Su’s tenure as Acting Secretary has been plagued by ill-advised policy decisions and consistent mismanagement.” According to Senator Cassidy’s letter, examples of these missteps include delayed H-2B visa approvals, “missed red flags of exploitative child labor practices,” a $127 million overpayment to the Teamsters pension fund, the aforementioned walkaround regulation, Davis-Bacon prevailing wage regulations, and the DOL’s new independent contractor rule and overtime proposal.

DOL Extends Comment Period for Schedule A Listed Occupations. On February 15, 2024, the DOL’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) published a notice extending the comment period for its request for information (RFI) regarding potential changes to its Schedule A list of occupations for the permanent labor certification process. The original comment period was scheduled to close on February 20, 2024 (sixty days after publication of the RFI), but that period has been extended to May 13, 2024. According to the notice, ETA is extending the comment period because it “has received a very limited number of comments, many of which do not provide the information requested or address the questions raised in the RFI.” Additionally, the notice states that the AFL-CIO requested an extension.

Democratic AGs Petition OSHA for Heat Rule. As the administration works to advance its regulatory agenda ahead of the November elections, late last week a group of Democratic attorneys general petitioned OSHA “to issue an emergency temporary standard for occupational heat exposure for farmworkers and construction workers, at minimum, beginning May 1, 2024.” (Many of the same attorneys general petitioned OSHA last year with the same request for an occupational heat ETS for agricultural and construction workers.) Readers who remember OSHA’s failed “vax-or-test” COVID-19 emergency temporary standard likely recall that to issue such a standard—which would not require prior input from stakeholders—OSHA must demonstrate that heat presents a “grave danger” to employees and that an emergency temporary standard (ETS) is necessary to protect employees (and the ETS would expire after six months). The petition maintains that “extreme heat poses a disproportionately grave danger to farmworkers and construction workers, especially during the summer months, and an emergency temporary standard is necessary to protect these workers from such danger.” While OSHA has completed its required Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) panel, the most recent regulatory agenda does not set a target date for issuance of a heat stress notice of proposed rulemaking.

House Committee Examines Wage and Hour Issues. On February 14, 2024, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections held a hearing entitled “Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Wage and Hour Division.” The sole witness at the hearing was the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) administrator, Jessica Looman. Republican members focused on many of the same issues raised in Senator Cassidy’s letter but with an obvious focus on WHD matters, such as the independent contractor, overtime, and Davis-Bacon Act regulations, as well as child labor issues, particularly when they’ve involve immigrant minors. The hearing will likely help to lay the groundwork for the introduction of Congressional Review Act resolutions.

Political Reality Check. While the current political acrimony on Capitol Hill appears to be at an all-time high, it can be helpful to remember that our national politics have always been rancorous (there was a Civil War, after all) and at times have devolved into physical altercations. There was, of course, Representative Preston Brooks’s brutal attack on Senator Charles Sumner in 1856. And even prior to that, there was an unfortunate altercation that occurred this week in 1798 in the U.S. House of Representatives. The incident arose when, during deliberations surrounding the impeachment of Senator William Blount, Representative Matthew Lyon of Vermont loudly insulted the Connecticut delegation on the House floor. Connecticut Representative Roger Griswold responded by alleging that Lyon’s military service during the Revolutionary War was less than admirable, to which Lyon responded by spitting tobacco juice in Griswold’s face. When a subsequent vote to expel Lyon for “disorderly behavior” failed, Griswold took matters into his own hands and attacked Lyon with a cane on the morning of February 15, 1798, and a brawl ensued. Amazingly, both Lyon and Griswold were allowed to keep their seats in the House. Later that year, Lyon was imprisoned for violation of the Alien and Sedition Acts (for writings critical of President John Adams) but still managed to win reelection—the only member of Congress to ever win an election while in jail.

Regulatory Updates

  • Department of Labor Issues its Fall 2023 Regulatory Agenda – Read more here
  • Environmental Protection Agency Issues its Fall 2023 Regulatory Agenda – Read more here

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.

State legislation tracked this week…

Important Stories for IHMM Certificants

Did you know you can register for a free webinar on OSHA’s injury reporting requirements?

OSHA is hosting a two-part webinar on the employer requirement to electronically submit workplace injury and illness data using the Injury Tracking Application. You can register for the free event here and Spanish and Portuguese translation will be available for both.

February 28, 9-10:15 a.m. EST: This presentation will be an overview of OSHA’s recordkeeping requirements and address common mistakes made by employers, incentive and disincentive programs, and tips on how an employer can effectively audit their recordkeeping program.

IHMM CHMM, CHMP, CSHM, and CSMP certificants may receive up to 2 certification maintenance points [CMPs] for attending these webinars.

Creating the Water Workforce of the Future: Webinar Series

Veterans in the Water Workforce 
February 29, 2024
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Register Here

As part of EPA’s commitment to helping build a diverse and sustainable water workforce, today’s veterans can provide a very important set of skills as well as benefit from a range of programs designed to help them build a meaningful career in water. Please join us on February 29th to hear from organizations that are reaching out to and training these veterans so they can play a key role in protecting our nation’s critical water infrastructure.

 This webinar is part of an ongoing webinar series hosted by EPA, in partnership with leading water sector organizations around the country. More information on this webinar series can be found at

https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-water-infrastructure/water-sector-workforce-webinars

For any questions related to this announcement, please contact [email protected]

Preparation and Response Strategies: Lessons Learned From a Mass Shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, TN Webinar

Join the Institute for Intergovernmental Research’s (IIR) Knowledge College session on “Preparation and Response Strategies: Lessons Learned From a Mass Shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee” on 2/29, from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM ET. Captain Steven Bowers, the former commanding officer of MNPD’s School Safety Division, will provide insights into the 2023 mass shooting incident, sharing valuable lessons on prevention, response, and recovery strategies.

Limited to sworn law enforcement personnel, this session aims to help participants identify specific opportunities for preventing and responding to school violence, enhance local critical response planning, and build collaboration for improved emergency preparedness.

Register Now


School Threat Assessment Toolkit

The School Threat Assessment Toolkit, releasing 3/6, offers schools guidance on employing behavioral threat assessment (TA) and management to prevent violence. Developed with input from various experts and organizations, it provides training, implementation, and assessment tools for school TA teams while safeguarding student rights. Learn more here.

Mental Health: Ending the Stigma

The evidence is overwhelming: so many Americans are struggling with their mental health. In 2021, CDC reported that the percentage of adults with recent symptoms of anxiety or depression increased from 36.4 percent to 41.5 percent between August 2020 and February 2021. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), two-thirds of adults say they experienced increased stress over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. And just two months ago, another CDC report found that the suicide rate in 2021 was more than 30 percent higher than it was 20 years ago. The conclusion reached by APA is that “we are facing a national mental health crisis that could yield serious health and social consequences for years to come.”

Read more here.

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

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.

News from IHMM Affiliates

IHMM is a member of ASSP and is pleased to bring this important information to all of its certificants.

ASSP News


ASSP Webinars

For a complete list of ASSP Webinars, click here.


ASSP Standards News

  • Approval of ISO 45004 FDIS [measurement] – December 2023 – Closed on January 10th and the results were sent to the TAG membership
  • Approval of ISO 45001 Interpretation of Dec 2023
  • The ISO 45006 ballot [pandemics] is currently out to adopt the document as an ANSI Registered Technical Report.  The ballot for ISO 45006 will end on February 23rd
  • Approval of NWIP [New Work Item Proposal] For Proposed ISO 45008 [remote workers]

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

Online
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Certificate Program: Use of Direct Reading Instruments

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

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

Online
   Daily

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

Online
   Daily

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

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

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

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

Online
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Mitigation Through Decontamination PDC Recording

Online
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SDS & Label Authoring Course

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

Online
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ISO 45001 OHSMS Update and Overview Webinar Recording

Online
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Fire and Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries PDC Recording

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

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

Online
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Welding: A Case Study in Occupational Hygiene

Online

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.

   DailyEmergency Management Self-Paced PDCOnline

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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.

Easily Find Courses to Help You Pass IHMM Credential Exams

A core mission of EHS 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.

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

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!

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/

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 2024

IHMM will attend and support a number of conferences and trade shows throughout 2024, virtually as well as in-person as resources allow. In 2023 IHMM participated in the Bay Area ASSP conference, Ohio Safety conference, COSTHA Annual Meeting, AIHA Conference & Trade Show, ASSP Annual Conference, CUHMMC, AHMP, National Safety Conference and FET

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

ASSP 2024 Bay Area Safety Symposium

February 29, 2024 – 8 am to 5 pm

The San Ramon Marriott located at 2600 Bishop Dr in San Ramon, California. Thank you to Bart Miller for making these arrangements for IHMM and staffing the booth!

IHMM-HMS Event Calendar

IHMM has a companion organization for which education and training programs are presented and delivered.  The Hazardous Materials Society education and training website can be found here.

DateEventEvent ProducerLocation
DailyCHMM Exam Prep CourseInstitute of Safety & Systems Management

Online

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