Mississippi Environmental and Ethics 30 PDH Discount Package 1

This online engineering PDH course provides information on hazardous waste and presents the criteria and rules that can help identify if waste is hazardous or not.

 

"Is my waste a hazardous waste regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)?" This is one of the most common and basic RCRA questions and is the key to the  RCRA hazardous waste program. If something is not hazardous waste, it is not regulated under RCRA. Proper identification of hazardous waste can be a difficult and confusing task, as the RCRA regulations establish a complex definition of the term "hazardous waste."

 

This 3 PDH online course is applicable to environmental and chemical engineers, as well as other technical professionals interested in identifying hazardous waste.

This online engineering PDH course provides a general description of the steps in the investigation and cleanup of brownfields sites, and introduces Brownfields stakeholders to the range of technologies and resources available to them. The Road Map provides valuable information for stakeholders typically involved in or affected by redevelopment of Brownfields sites, whether through public projects, private development or public-private partnerships.

 

Brownfields sites are defined as “real property, the expansion, redevelopment or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant” (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended by the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002, §101(39)). The cleanup of Brownfields sites improves and protects the environment and may result in many benefits for the local community.

 

Revitalizing Brownfields sites has the potential to create benefits throughout the community, including community involvement in the project, job creation, and an increase in residential property values once a nearby Brownfields site is assessed or cleaned up.

 

This 6 PDH online course is intended for environmental, civil, and sustainability engineers as well as others seeking an outline on dealing with Brownfields in the United States and familiarizing with the EPA Brownfields Program.

This online engineering PDH course provides guidance on the design of site specific remedial technologies at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. These remedial technologies typically include containment, treatment, disposal systems.

 

Control and containment technologies are those remedial systems that are used primarily for management of contaminants onsite to prevent excursions to the air or ground water. Control and containment remedial techniques are usually undertaken where the volume of waste or hazard associated with the waste makes it impractical or impossible to dispose of the contamination offsite or to treat the waste or contaminated material onsite. Site control and containment remedial techniques are often implemented along with treatment systems to minimize the volume of material requiring treatment.

 

This 10 PDH online course is applicable to civil, environmental and geotechnical engineers, as well as design and construction personnel involved with hazardous and toxic waste remedial activities.

This online engineering PDH course focuses on the mitigation of vapor intrusion of volatile contaminants to prevent human exposure to anthropogenic soil and groundwater contaminants.  In addition, it provides information on understanding the range of mitigation controls and technologies available, as well as selecting appropriate technologies.

 

Typically volatile contaminants from buried wastes and/or contaminated groundwater or soil can migrate through subsurface soils and into indoor air spaces of overlying buildings, which have significant negative impacts on indoor air quality and potentially the health of building occupants.

 

This 5 PDH online course is applicable to civil and environmental engineers, design and construction professionals, as well as health and safety/industrial hygiene specialists interested in gaining an understanding of the various methods of mitigating indoor air vapors.

This online engineering PDH course is based on a modified version of OSHA training material related to protecting personnel exposed to crystalline silica in the workplace. This course consists of 74 slides with accompanying commentary, providing a concise, graphically illustrated, and easily digestible introduction to the subject.

 

Silicosis is a disabling, nonreversible and sometimes fatal lung disease caused by breathing in crystalline silica.  Silicosis accounts for about 200 deaths in the U.S. every year.  In the construction industry, the most severe exposures to crystalline silica result from sandblasting. Other activities that may produce crystalline silica dust include jack hammering;  rock/well drilling; concrete mixing and drilling; brick and concrete block cutting; tunneling operations; cement and asphalt pavement manufacturing; setting, laying and repair of railroad track; and foundry operations.

 

This 2 PDH online course is intended primarily for civil, environmental, chemical, and mechanical engineers, as well as construction and facility personnel and employers responsible for protecting workers exposed to crystalline silica in the workplace.

This online engineering PDH course provides basic information on termites and the control measures taken to prevent damages in buildings.

 

Subterranean termites are the most important insect pest of wood in the United States. Living in large underground colonies, termites may attack any wood in contact with the soil and may even construct protective shelter tubes over nonwood materials to attack wood above ground.

 

Termite prevention begins with good building practices, which vary depending on the type of structure and how the structure is to be landscaped and decorated. Control of termites in existing structures involves periodic inspections for termite activity, remedial insecticide treatments, or use of insecticidal bait technology.

 

This 2 PDH online course is applicable to environmental, structural, geotechnical, and civil engineers as well as other technical personnel interested in learning more about how to prevent and control termites in buildings.

This online engineering PDH course presents the principles of engineering ethics that every engineer is expected to live by when practicing their profession.

 

Engineering ethics is (1) the study of moral issues and decisions confronting individuals and organizations involved in engineering and (2) the study of related questions about moral conduct, character, ideals and relationships of peoples and organizations involved in technological development (Martin and Schinzinger, Ethics in Engineering).

 

This course describes the fundamental legal concepts with which very engineer should be familiar. It also presents unique disciplinary case studies selected from across the nation, as well as hypothetical ethical challenges that demonstrate how difficult it can be to apply the code of ethics for engineers.

 

This 2 PDH online course is applicable to all professional engineers who are either required to fulfill 2 PDH in engineering ethics or are interested in broadening their understanding of what it means to practice and uphold the honor and integrity of their engineering profession while holding the utmost safety, health, and welfare of the public.