IHMM Today March 30, 2021

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State of Colorado Recognizes the CHMM

The State of Colorado recognizes the CHMM as a Health & Safety Officer under Department of Transportation contracts, as well as for certifications under 40 CFR Part 261 Subparts C and D, and for compliance under CERCLA, Section 101 [14], as amended.

This is part of the IHMM-AHMP 45 in 5 Project [see below] to secure credential recognition from states and other entities around the country.  We all thank the 44 volunteers working all over America and Puerto Rico on this project!

The Task Force is here > https://ihmm.org/45-in-5-task-force/ 

OSHA Fall Prevention Campaign

In support of the Fall Prevention Campaign and National Safety Stand-Down on May 3-7, 2021, we wanted to make you aware of an educational webinar on Fall Harness Fit: The Basics in coordination with the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA).  The webinar is scheduled for April 28, 2021, at 1:00 PM (Eastern) and will include speakers from OSHA, NRCA, and CPWR. More information on the webinar and registration is available here.

In addition to the Fall Harness Fit webinar, two new Spanish resources are available for your use in support of the Campaign and National Safety Stand-Down:

• Small Contractors Section (Plan. Provide. Train.) – https://stopconstructionfalls.com/planificar-proporcionar-capacitar/
• General Spanish Resources page – https://stopconstructionfalls.com/prevent-falls-training-other-resources/en-espanol/

Creating the Water Workforce of the Future:
Webinar Series

Cultivating a Positive Workforce Culture From Apprenticeship to Career

April 1, 2021
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Register Here

This program is worth 1.5 IHMM CMPs

A career in the water sector offers meaningful and challenging work that makes a difference in local communities. By building an inclusive and supportive workplace that encourages employee growth, the sector can attract and retain the qualified candidates it needs.

Please join EPA on April 1, 2021, to hear from leaders in the water sector who are embracing the challenge of “Creating the Water Workforce of the Future.”

Joone Lopez from Moulton-Niguel Water District will describe her organization’s journey to build a culture that allowed MNWD to become recognized as one of the outstanding water utilities in the country.

Tim Friday and Eric Dunker from Castle Rock Water and Arapahoe Community College will then describe a utility/community college partnership that trains and places students into jobs in the water workforce.

Moderator
Jim Horne, U.S. EPA

Speakers
From Moulton Niguel Water District (Southern California)
• Joone Lopez: General Manager
From Castle Rock Water & Arapahoe Community College (Greater Denver Area)
• Tim Friday: Assistant Director
• Eric Dunker: Associate Vice President and Dean of Arapahoe Community College: Business, Technology, and Workforce Partnerships

WEBINAR

Event Information: Fall Harness Fit: The Basics

Registration is required to join this event. If you have not registered, please do so now here.

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Date and time: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 1:00 pm
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Program: CPWR Informational Webinar Series
Duration: 45 minutes
Description:
In order for a personal fall arrest system to effectively protect workers in the event of a fall, it’s critical that the harness fits properly and is worn as intended. In support of the OSHA-NIOSH-CPWR Campaign to Prevent Falls and National Safety Stand-Down on May 3-7, 2021, CPWR is partnering with the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) to provide an educational webinar on this topic. During this 30-minute presentation followed by Q&A, you’ll hear from the experts at NRCA about how to know whether a harness fits correctly, including demonstrations and descriptions of how it should look and feel when on, and why fit is so important.

Welcome: Scott Ketcham, Director, OSHA’s Directorate of Construction

Panel:
Thomas Shanahan, CAE, VP Enterprise Risk Management and Executive Education, National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA)
Harry Dietz, Director, Enterprise Risk Management, NRCA
Rich Trewyn, Director, Enterprise Risk Management, NRCA

IHMM Professional Standards Committee – Ethics Review

Certification bodies like IHMM spend a good deal of time and effort promoting private certifications and their personal as well as professional value. One element of this value is our code of ethics.

2 1/2 years ago IHMM received a complaint alleging that someone had violated our code of ethics. We did our research and read the complaint several times not being able to understand who was turning in whom. As it turns out, a lady who works for a state agency was turning in herself. It seems this lady believed she had not treated some of the colleagues with whom she worked in a manner befitting a professional and IHMM certificant. Yes, she turned in herself.

There are many things valuable about a private certification and a code of ethics. There is nothing more valuable than a person who takes professional conduct so seriously as to reflect on it herself and want to do better for herself, those around her, and her credential.

We are exceedingly proud of this person and her desire to get better and to seek the help that is going to allow her to achieve that goal.

The IHMM Board has asked the Professional Standards Committee to review IHMM’s code of ethics and how it may be taught as a part of recertification requirements. The Professional Standards Committee is chaired by Dan Blankfeld, and the full committee is found here.

The committee has also reviewed some important materials of late, among which are:

• The Psychology Behind Unethical Behavior, Harvard Businesss Review

• The State of Ethics & Compliance in the Workplace, GBES

IHMM Microcredential Task Force

• The IHMM Microcredential Task Force https://ihmm.org/microcredential-task-force/ chaired by Dan Blankfeld, has arrived at its top 10 topics for consideration of creating microcredentials. These are not the only areas to be ultimately considered from the more than 200 suggestions we received from certificants – only the top 10 at this point.

The top 10 are:

• Pandemic Preparedness (e.g. COVID-19, H1N1, etc.)
• Pandemic Response
• Biohazard/Infection Disease Expert
• Crisis Management
• Safety (AHA, JHA, PHA, Specialist; Safety Culture Development)
• Industrial Hygiene ( Silica, Mold, Lead, Asbestos, etc .)
• Hazardous Waste Expert
• Remediation (Superfund, specialty product, ESA I,II; Brownfield)
• Environmental law

As the Task Force begins the process of building the foundation of microcredentials involving pandemics IHMM has invited the National Institutes of Health [NIH] and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] to join as advisors of this project. Important to our success as an Institute and as a country is our ability to partner with the government, who in times of pandemic will rely on the professionals that we can create with them.

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

On January 25th, we began outlining the strategy to go after the 21 states in yellow, above.

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/

• The State of Colorado recognizes the CHMM as a Health & Safety Officer under Department of Transportation contracts, as well as for certifications under 40 CFR Part 261 Subparts C and D, and for compliance under CERCLA, Section 101 [14], as amended. Colorado is the 7th state government to have recognized the CHMM. This is a part of the IHMM-AHMP 45 in 5 Program to secure recognition by governments around the country.
• 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. Thank you, Mary Duda.
• The State of California, Yuba Water Agency, PG&E Corp, Comcast, City of Elk Grove, Kaiser Permanente, thank you Cheryl Stith, who is working with Bart Miller on other agencies in California as well
• At our March meeting, we further discussed efforts underway in Washington state, Iowa, and also organizing filing an initiated federal rulemaking to amend 40 CFR § 310.12 /Definitions to include the CHMM.
• Robert Wilkinson is working in the State of Tennessee on credential recognition
• Ineke Abunwass is helping us in the State of Georgia with credential recognition
• Jerome Fields, Eric Johnson, and Tony Uliano are working in the State of Washington on credential recognition
• Bill Diesslin in the State of Iowa is working on credential recognition there under a groundwater program

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.

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.

The Task Force meets again April 6th

IHMM NEWS RECENT UPDATES

IHMM is a member of the National Safety Council and is pleased to bring this important information to all of its certificants.

• New Ways of Working Safely

• Situational Awareness

• Commit to a Culture of Learning

• FACE Report: Roofer Falls 30 Feet From Rain Slicked Roof

NSC Impact Tracks

The NSC Impact Tracks provide valuable educational opportunities for safety professionals looking to enhance their career, brush up on their skills and earn CEUs in the comfort of their home or office. This new virtual opportunity provides a day of topically focused education featuring five 60 minute technical sessions, lunch and stretch breaks, and an opening welcome from NSC President & CEO, Lorraine Martin. Each session will be taught by leading safety and subject experts in the field.

SAVE MY SPOT

NSC Webinars

• March 30 – Immersive Technology & the Future of Work
• April 1 – Achieving Better Outcomes with Mass Notification Systems

Please join us in participating in Safe + Sound Week from August 9-15, 2021. Safe + Sound Week is a nationwide event held each August to show your business’s commitment to keep workers safe year-round. Safe + Sound Week is also a time when information and ideas are shared to help get your safety and health program started or improve an existing program.

Download the Save the Date and share that you’ll be participating in Safe + Sound Week on social media using #SafeAndSoundAtAWork.

Registration opens in July and will be announced via IHMM Today and EHS Professional.

Spring Arrives with a Slate of Exciting
Virtual Events and Trainings

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) is pleased to share information regarding a full slate of upcoming opportunities for chemical industry stakeholders to stay abreast of key regulatory developments both in the United States and internationally. We hope you will join B&C professionals, industry colleagues, and regulatory agency speakers for one or more of these events.

Product Stewardship and the Pandemic: Surviving and Thriving in Disruptive Times

March 31, 2021
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT
Register here

The COVID-19 global pandemic has had far-reaching impacts on business operations. While we are all eager to put the pandemic behind us, other catastrophic events will inevitably occur. To strengthen organizational resilience going forward, we must examine lessons learned and position product stewardship as a key player in business continuity and crisis management.

This complimentary future-focused webinar will identify the broad range of complex, unresolved, and evolving issues product stewards have faced and continue to face because of the pandemic. Lynn L. Bergeson will moderate as Tina Armstrong, Ph.D., Principal Scientist and Vice President at the global consultancy firm Arcadis; Jon Hellerstein, CIH, CSP, a career environmental health professional; Louise Proud, leader of the Environment, Health, and Safety program for Pfizer Inc.; and Al Iannuzzi, Ph.D., Vice President, Sustainability, at The Estée Lauder Companies, present.

TSCA Tutor® On-Demand Virtual Training

Available 24/7/365
Enroll Online

B&C’s TSCA Tutor online e-training platform offers expert, efficient, essential TSCA training. Professionals seeking TSCA training can preview and enroll in on-demand classes to complete at their own pace and timing.

TSCA Tutor online training courses include:
• Video lessons.

• Detailed handout materials, including copies of all presentations and relevant course materials from EPA and other sources.

• Customizable, yet detailed and ready-to-use Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the regulatory topic covered in the session.
Interested professionals should visit www.TSCAtutor.com to view sample course segments and purchase modules. Volume discounts are available for companies wishing to purchase courses for multiple employees.

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.

• OSHA Program Aims to Protect High-Risk Workers From Coronavirus

• Selecting and Inspecting Fall Protection Equipment: 5 Keys to Success

• Safety News You Need: Construction Safety and Health

• CDC Guidelines for Implementing a Workplace COVID-19 Vaccination Program

ASSP Webinars

• April 15: ONLINE COURSE: Safety Management I

• April 27: Live Virtual Classroom: Math Review for Certification Exams

• April 28 – 30: Live Virtual Classroom: ASP Exam Prep

• April 28 -30: Live Virtual Classroom: CSP Exam Prep

• April 29 – May 27: ONLINE COURSE: Risk Assessment Course

IHMM is a member of ASSP and is pleased to provide this information to all of our certificants.

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 14,918 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.