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School of Environmental Health
continuing education

Courses and Workshops

Our Continuing Education program delivers professional development opportunities for health and safety professionals with a commitment to maintaining and enhancing professional competence. It provides a venue for communicating research findings and teaching best practices.  It also creates an opportunity to network with researchers and other professionals. Our community of learners work in diverse organizations and have varied backgrounds and experience.

Our courses are recognized by professional organizations as providing educational value through the granting of certification maintenance points. 

Our current course offerings, info about custom workshops, and contact info for the Continuing Education Program are shown below. You can also see examples of other courses we have offered in previous years.  

   

 -- NEW online course available in English and French --                  

 

Outdoor Air Quality and Health and the Air Quality Health Index (AQHI)            

Qualité de l’air extérieur, Santé, et la Cote Air Santé (CAS)

 

view HTML version of e-announcement 

version d'annonce en français

 

Course features:

online | on demand | free | CME & other professional credits multimedia content | discussion forum & Ask an Expert

 

This on demand, online course is available from September 1, 2009 to August 31, 2011.

There is no cost involved but registration is required.  CME and other professional credits available. Please see course link (course title) above for additional information.

Read lead story featuring e-course in the Canadian Medical Association website


 

 

British Columbia Healthcare Workplace Health, Safety & Wellness Conference

"From Knowledge to Action:

       Solutions that Work"

September 14-15, 2009

Kelowna, BC

 


 

 

Ergonomic Quality in Facility Design   

October 27, 2009

Vancouver, BC                    

Click here for registration form

 

 

 

Risk Assessment & Control for Back Injuries

 

Two locations:

Vancouver, BC  - October 28, 2009            

Click here for registration form

   

                           

Prince George, BC - November 16 , 2009

in collaboration with University of Northern British Columbia

 

 

 


Courses offered earlier this year:

Alerting, Reassuring, Guiding: Three Risk Communication Toolkits for Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Professionals  - brochure now available

March 9 & 10, 2009

Indoor Environmental Quality 1-Day Refresher

Customized course for Vancouver Coastal Health - Environmental Health

Four sessions:  April 6, 7, 16, 17, 2009

Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene Review 

April 20-24, 2009

Ergonomic Assessment of Upper Limb Risk Factors for Effective Return-to-Work Programs

April 18-19, 2009

 

 

 

Alerting, Reassuring, Guiding: 

Three Risk Communication Toolkits

for Environmental Health &Safety (EH&S) Professionals

March 9 & 10, 2009

Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside

1133 West Hastings

Vancouver, BC

 

  Speakers                                        Peter M. Sandman, PhD

Risk communication specialist,

Princeton, New Jersey

 

Jody Lanard, MD

Risk communication specialist,

Princeton, New Jersey

 

OVERVIEW        |     AGENDA      

  

About Dr. Peter M. Sandman  |  About Dr. Jody Lanard 

 

VENUE & ACCOMMODATION

 

View brochure here

Registration form here

 

REGISTRATION FEE

On or before February 16, 2009:                                    $425

After February 16, 2009 (ends March 6, 2009):           $475

On-site registration:                                                         $525

Students*:                                                                         $175               

 

Registration fee is GST exempt and include lunches, refreshment breaks and course material.  Group discount is 10% and available to organizations sending four (4) or more employees to the seminar.  The first four (4) group registrations must be received at the same time to be eligible for the discount.

*proof of current full-time registration at an academic institution required

Cancellation policy

Certification Maintenance Information

 

Major Sponsors

   

 

                   

Partnering Sponsors

        

Associate Sponsors                                                                 

                                 

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Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene Review       

Vancouver, British Columbia:  April 20-24, 2009  

 

 

Click image above for course brochure

in cooperation with the University of Washington, Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety

New classroom location: 

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, Room 260

Comments from past participants

  

 

Course fee:    

CAN $1,100 by March 27, 2009 (extended);    

CAN $1,300 after March 27, 2009   

(US professionals:  register now to take advantage of the currency exchange at this time.  Payment by credit card will be processed in Canadian funds. Currency conversion is available at: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/converter.html

Accreditation:

American Board of Industrial Hygiene -- 4.5 CM points; 37 continuing education contact hours (approval #08-2835)

Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals -- 3 CMP (approval #09035)

Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists -- 5 maintenance points (approval #2009-01)

 

 


Ergonomic Assessment of Upper Limb Risk Factors for Effective

Return-to-Work Programs

Brandon, Manitoba :  April 18, 2009

Winnipeg, Manitoba: April 19, 2009

in cooperation with the Canadian Physiotherapy Association Manitoba Branch

 

Brochure now available:  view here

 


         

2007 BC Healthcare conference       2006 Occupational Hazards to   2007 Ergonomic Quality in Kelowna BC                                Health Care Workers               in Facility Design breakout session                            Seattle, WA                             Vancouver, BC                                                                           

                   Dr. Peter M. Sandman presenting in our 2009 Alerting, Reassuring, Guiding:  Three Risk Communication Toolkits for Environmental Health & Safety Professionals, Vancouver BC

Certification Maintenance

The following occupational health and safety professional organizations award our courses with certificaition maintenance points.  Other professional organizations also accredit our professional development courses, including those for nurses, architects, interior designers and others as applicable.


 

Custom Workshops

 We also develop and present customized workshops that fit the training needs of BC organizations.  Examples include:  

 

 

Contact Us
 

Dr. Lydia Ma
Director, Continuing Education and Outreach


Tel: 604 822 9599

Fax: 604 822 6207

 

Dr. Ma is past Chair of the Minerva BC Working Group of Minerva Canada Safety Management Education. Minerva Canada aims "to promote and to facilitate the efforts of universities and community colleges to develop appropriate educational resources for integrating occupational health and safety concepts into existing curricula and to assist faculty and staff in becoming informed on occupational health and safety issues." Dr. Ma lectures to students in the UBC Sauder School of Business on the role of occupational health and safety management excellence as an integral part of their future responsibility at all levels of leadership.

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