IHMM Today April 5, 2022

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IHMM Announces New CSMP Test Specification (Blueprint)  

The Institute of Hazardous Materials Management (IHMM) conducts a Job Task Analysis (JTA) to validate all certification examinations every five years, or more often if circumstances warrant.  The job analysis identifies the performance areas and associated knowledge, tasks, skills, and abilities relating to the credential. The analysis ensures adequate and accurate coverage of all content as defined by the overall scope of the test. During the JTA process, a new blueprint is created that reflects the consensus of the profession validated by survey participants.  The blueprint provides the areas of competency that a minimally qualified candidate must have to be deemed competent.

The IHMM CSMP Scheme Committee has conducted its first comprehensive Job Task Analysis (JTA) based on psychometric principles during a yearlong series of one-and-a-half-hour workshop meetings and has finalized the JTA and the blueprint for the CSMP examination.  The job task analysis includes the test definition documents, the purpose of the exam, description of the intended audience, the definition of the minimally-competent candidate, domains, and testing objectives  The committee worked on evaluating testing objectives using the cognitive levels of:

• Declarative – which requires a candidate to recall and retain knowledge
• Application – which requires a candidate to apply the knowledge to a scenario.

IHMM would like to extend a very special thank you to the CSMP Scheme Committee members.  The 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 CSMP credential.  Thank you for volunteering your time, your expertise, and your passion to define the CSMP credential!!

Seven subject matter experts (SMEs) serve on the CSMP Scheme Committee, working under the guidance of Jim Brinton, a trained psychometrician from Certification Management Services (CMS), and other facilitators, Kirk Rains, Chair, and Trina of the CSMP Scheme Committee and M. Patricia Buley, IHMM’s Director of Certification and Accreditation.

Pictured above: Patricia Buley, Matt Rehlander, Mark Richards, Jim Brinton, Trina Cameron, Kirk Rains, and Lisa Price. Not pictured Conrad DeVeau and Jason Teliszczak.

The eligibility requirements for the CSMP examination are as follows:

Candidate education and experience must be validated through the application process before taking the CSMP examination. Individuals who meet the criteria outlined in the table may be eligible to sit for the CSMP examination.

Summary of Requirements

• Full-time professional safety and health management experience are acceptable. Requires position duties with 50% or greater safety and health management-related activities.
• Two years of part-time experience with 50% or greater safety and health management activities may be substituted for one full-time year.

The new CHMM examination blueprint is expected to be effective by the fourth quarter of 2022.  You can find the blueprint here:  https://ihmm.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-IHMM-CSMP-Blueprint.pdf

For more information about the Certified Safety Management Practitioner (CSMP) certification program, including eligibility requirements and application procedures, see the CSMP section of the IHMM website here. If you have questions about the CSMP Blueprint, please contact M. Patricia Buley at [email protected].

CSHM Blueprint Approved by the IHMM Board

On Friday, March 25, 2022, the IHMM Board received the new Certified Safety and Health Manager [CSHM] blueprint from the CSHM Scheme Committee, chaired by Steven Guillory, CSHM > https://ihmm.org/cshm-scheme-committee/.

The new blueprint, seen here, is a tremendously impressive achievement more than two years in the making.  Now the CSHM Scheme committee works to create a new examination for the credential as IHMM prepares to submit the CSHM for accreditation by ANAB/ANSI, American National Standards Institute.

Congratulations to the committee and its staff liaison, M. Patricia Buley, IOM, ICE-CCP!

CPPS Blueprint Approved by the IHMM Board

On Friday, March 25, 2022, the IHMM Board received the new Certified Pandemic Preparedness Specialist [CPPS] blueprint from the IHMM Microcredential Task Force, chaired by Dan Blankfeld, CSMP. See > https://ihmm.org/microcredential-task-force/

The new blueprint is a tremendously impressive achievement more than a year in the making.  Now the Microcredential Task Force works to create a new examination for the microcredential. The Certified Pandemic Preparedness Specialist [CPPS] is the first microcredential to be issued by IHMM.

Microcredentials are short, focused credentials designed to provide in-demand skills, know-how, and experience. The CPPS is designed to be attached, or stacked, onto either that CHMM or the CSHM credentials. That simply means that the initial qualification to sit for the CPPS exam one would first need to hold the IHMM CHMM or CSHM credentials.

The creation of the CPPS is being done in the environment of the Biden Administration’s plans to funnel the $65.3 billion over seven to 10 years to invest in the country’s ability to respond “rapidly and effectively” to future epidemics and pandemics, as the current COVID-19 crisis has disrupted society and killed millions worldwide.

Congratulations to the Microcredential Task Force for this great effort!

CSSM Blueprint Approved by the IHMM Board

On Friday, March 25, 2022, the IHMM Board received the new Certified School Safety Manager [CSSM] blueprint from the CSSS-CSSM Committee, chaired by Mike Howe, CSSM. See > https://ihmm.org/csss-cssm-committee/

The new blueprint is a tremendously impressive achievement more than six months in the making.  Now the CSSS-CSSM Committee works to create a new examination for the CSSM. This CSSM blueprint is the first of its kind.

When the new CSSM examination is completed and released later this year, then the committee will turn to create a blueprint for the Certified School Safety Specialist [CSSS] credential.

Congratulations to the CSSS-CSSM Committee for this great effort!

EPA Publishes Final Scope of D4 Risk Evaluation, Seeks Comment on Draft Revision to PV29 Risk Determination

On March 7, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of the final scope of the risk evaluation to be conducted for octamethylcyclotetra-siloxane (D4), a chemical substance for which EPA received a manufacturer request for risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). 87 Fed. Reg. 12696. The scope document includes the conditions of use (COU), hazards, exposures, and the potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations (PESS) that EPA plans to consider in conducting the risk evaluation for this chemical substance. EPA also published a separate notice announcing the availability of and requesting public comment on a draft revision to the risk determination for the Colour Index Pigment Violet 29 (PV29) risk evaluation. 87 Fed. Reg. 12690. EPA states that the draft revision finds that PV29, as a whole chemical substance, presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health when evaluated under its COUs. The draft revision would supersede the COU-specific no unreasonable risk determinations in the January 2021 PV29 risk evaluation, would withdraw the associated order, and would make a revised determination of unreasonable risk for PV29 as a whole chemical substance. EPA notes that in addition, the draft revised risk determination does not reflect an assumption that workers always appropriately wear personal protective equipment (PPE). Comments on the draft revision to the PV29 risk determination are due April 21, 2022. For more information, please read the full memorandum.

Read more > https://www.lawbc.com/regulatory-developments/entry/epa-publishes-final-scope-of-d4-risk-evaluation-seeks-comment-on-draft-revi

FEDERAL CREDENTIAL RECOGNITION – CALL TO ACTION – Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act

CALL TO ACTION – Representative Spanberger of Virginia’s 7th Congressional District has drafted legislation entitled,  H.R. 2171, “Freedom To Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act.” This legislation expands the provisions of existing law with respect to the allowable uses of Section 529 education tuition accounts to include most expenses paid by the holders of private professional certifications. We need you to contact your House and Senate members to ask them to co-sponsor this legislation.

CLICK HERE TO PARTICIPATE

You can support this effort with your voice and message. Go here>  https://ihmm.org/45-in-5-task-force/  and fill out your contact information where provided and help to pass H.R. 2171/S. 905.

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A Collaborative Culture

There are 648 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]

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 2022

IHMM will attend and support a number of conferences and trade shows throughout 2022, virtually as well as in-person as COVID issues allow. Below are some of the conferences IHMM will support in 2022.

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]

VENDOR ALERT

IHMM had a record number of applications in 2021 – 704.  In 2021 IHMM delivered the largest number of examinations since 2016 – 477.  IHMM has 975 students in the pipeline moving through applications and examinations. IHMM has 358 students taking examinations right now. IHMM has another 546 students headed to take examinations.

Are you seeing this business as a vendor of education and training services?

Contact IHMM Executive Director Eugene A. Guilford, Jr., CAE, at [email protected]

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