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. Current course offerings, info about custom workshops, and contact info for the Continuing Education Program are shown below. Examples of other courses can be seen here.
-- NEW and free online bilingual course --
Please click course title below to access registration information:
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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
Preventing Catastrophes in Confined Spaces
May 3 & 4, 2010
Vancouver BC
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co-sponsored by:
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| Dr. Peter M. Sandman presenting in our 2009 Alerting, Reassuring, Guiding: Three Risk Communication Toolkits for Environmental Health & Safety Professionals, Vancouver BC | |
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2007 BC Healthcare conference, Kelowna BC |
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2006 Occupational Hazards to Health Care Workers, Seattle WA |
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2007 Ergonomic Quality in Facility Design, 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.
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| Custom Workshops |
We also develop and present customized workshops that fit the training needs of BC organizations. Examples include:
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Indoor Environmental Quality 1-Day Refresher
Customized course for Vancouver Coastal Health - Environmental Health
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Indoor air quality: identification, assessment and management
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Indoor air quality in schools: identification, assessment and management
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Workplace risk assessment and control
(NorskeCanada, Elk Falls, Pulp Operation)
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.
