IHMM Today May 10, 2022

IHMM Announces New CSHM® Test Specification (Blueprint)  

The Institute of Hazardous Materials Manager (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.

See the IHMM CSHM webpage here.

The IHMM CSHM 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 CSHM 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 CSHM 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 CSHM credential.  Thank you for volunteering your time, your expertise, and your passion to define the CSHM credential!!

Nine subject matter experts (SMEs) serve on the CSHM Scheme Committee, working under the guidance of Jim Brinton, a trained psychometrician from Certification Management Services (CMS), and other facilitators, Steven Guillory, Chair, and Tom Slavin, Vice-Chair of the CSHM Scheme Committee and M. Patricia Buley, IHMM’s Director of Certification and Accreditation.

Pictured: Patricia Buley, Jim Brinton, Tom Slavin, David Onchagwa, Don Hermey, Dr. William Goetz, Steven Guillory, Amanda Davies. Not pictured: Fred Pearson and Jan Brown, Jr.

The eligibility requirements for the CSHM examination are as follows:

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

IHMM is a Strategic Partner of IATA

What You Need to Know About the Transport of Dangerous Goods By Air

Every year more than 1.25 million dangerous goods shipments are transported by air. With air cargo growth predicted at 4.9% every year over the next 5 years the number of dangerous goods shipments will rise significantly. With so many dangerous goods being shipped by air, safety regulations must be followed precisely. IATA helps identify the risks and works with ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) to amend the regulations providing stakeholders with the most current guidelines on how to handle and ship dangerous goods safely.

Therefore, we published a FAQ article to help you get a better understanding of what you need to know about the transport of dangerous goods by air, this includes:

–    What are dangerous goods
–    What are the dangerous goods classes
–    Who is involved in the transport of dangerous goods and what are their responsibilities
–    How do I complete a dangerous goods declaration
–    What to know about dangerous goods packaging
–    How do you mark and label dangerous goods
–    And much more…

You can read the full article here.

IHMM Board Nominations Open

Heather Waldmann, CHMM, Chair of the IHMM Nominating Committee [https://ihmm.org/nominating-committee/], is pleased to announce the opening of the Board nominating season for 2022.

In 2022 the IHMM Nominating Committee solicits candidates for three [3] director positions that will be open on January 1, 2021. [1] Certified Dangerous Goods Professional [CDGP], [1] Certified Safety and Health Manager [CSHM], and [1] At-Large, that can be either a CHMM, CDGP, CHMP, CSHM, or CSMP.

The documents describing the nominations and elections process and forms for submitting nominations are here:

• 2022 IHMM Nominations and Elections Process

• 2022 IHMM Call for Nominations

• 2022 IHMM Fillable Nominations Form

EPA Recognition of the IHMM CHMM as an Environmental Professional

IHMM’s Board approved an initiative to have the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognize the Certified Hazardous Materials Manager [CHMM] credential in the context of 40 CFR § 312.10, Definitions. The key element of this regulation includes,

“However, the Agency notes that any individual with a certification from a private certification organization where the organization’s certification qualifications include the same or more stringent education and experience requirements as those included in today’s final regulation will meet the definition of an environmental professional for the purposes of this regulation.”

IHMM has produced a crosswalk between 40 CFR § 312.10 Definitions and the CHMM Blueprint that documents how the EPA regulation aligns with the CHMM Blueprint and demonstrates that in each instance the blueprint meets or exceeds 40 CFR § 312.10 Definitions. The EPA definition of an Environmental Professional is in the Federal Register dated November 1, 2005 at page 66080. On that page is the instruction to private certifications being considered Environmental Professionals and how to compare 40 CFR § 312.10 to the certification.

1. Federal Register 11-1-2005 Page 66080 – Definition of Environmental Professional – EPA

2. You may read the IHMM – CHMM crosswalk here.

IHMM Fellows Becoming Mentors

IHMM Fellows Committee Chair Atanu Das, CHMM, is leading the effort within the IHMM Collaboration networking platform to provide instruction to the more than 75 IHMM Fellows in becoming mentors.

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.

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.

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