Interactive & Video Discount Package - Texas Environmental and Ethics 15 PDH

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation is intended to serve as a resource to help schools and child care facilities implement a voluntary program for reducing lead in drinking water.

Children are most susceptible to the effects of lead because their bodies are still undergoing development and they tend to absorb more lead from the environment. The adverse health effects of lead exposure include reduced IQ and attention span, learning disabilities, poor classroom performance, hyperactivity, behavioral problems, impaired growth, and hearing loss. The only way to know if there is lead in drinking water is to test.

This presentation aims at helping school and child care facilities to implement programs for reducing lead in drinking water as part of their overall plans and for maintaining healthy learning environments. Implementing the 3Ts will help schools and child care facilities to identify potential problems with plumbing systems and materials so that targeted remediation efforts can be taken.

This 2 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to environmental, civil, and mechanical engineers as well as other technical personnel who are interested in eliminating lead sources from drinking water and in communicating with parents, teachers, and the public about water remediation efforts.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides an overview of the 2015 federal underground storage tank (UST) system requirements and regulations for release detection and piping.

The presentation is not a substitute for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations nor is it a regulation itself — it does not impose legally binding requirements. In other words, some implementing agencies may have additional regulations which apply to the system. State or local regulations may differ from the federal requirements.

This presentation begins with an overview of the federal regulatory requirements for release detection. If your USTs do not meet the release detection requirements described in this booklet, you can be cited for violations and fined. Throughout the presentation, orange updated boxes indicate new requirements in the 2015 UST regulation. Each of the sections focuses on one release detection method for tanks and the requirements for piping. You will find answers in this presentation to many basic questions about how release detection methods work and which methods are best for your UST site.

This 2 PDH online course is intended for petroleum engineers, owners, operators, and personnel of underground storage tanks (USTs) interested in better understanding the release detection of underground storage tanks.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation focuses on providing guidance for drinking water utilities and their response partners to help them prepare for responding to incidents of contamination in the distribution system which was developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The course presents a framework for responding to distribution system contamination incidents, discusses the fundamental concepts of consequence management, highlights the need for coordinating efforts with local, state, regional, and federal response partners, and describes the use of training and exercises for learning and improving response procedures. The overall goal of this guidance is to assist utilities with planning and creating a contamination incident response procedure that supplements a utility’s Emergency Response Plan.

The presentation gives an overview of contamination incident response. Drinking water contamination can result in a number of adverse consequences to the public and the distribution system. It also examines the fundamentals of contamination incident response. The Distribution System Contamination Response Procedure (DSCRP) focuses on the activities to perform during a water contamination incident and the steps that a utility can take to prepare for those activities. The course also highlights the importance of coordinated management of the incident and effective communication among those involved to ensure a successful investigation, response, and remediation of a contamination incident. The presentation further explores that the ability to effectively implement the concepts, guidance, and procedures of a DSCRP requires that the personnel responsible for responding be trained on the DSCRP and supporting procedures.

This 2 PDH online interactive presentation is designed for environmental engineers, engineers responsible for water system operations, public health managers, and professionals involved in water safety and response plans.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides guidance on the impacts from hydraulic fracturing water cycle on drinking water resources in the United States.

People rely on clean and plentiful water resources to meet their basic needs, including drinking, bathing, and cooking. In the early 2000s, members of the public began to raise concerns about potential impacts on their drinking water from hydraulic fracturing at nearby oil and gas production wells. In response to these concerns, Congress urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the relationship between hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas and drinking water in the United States.

The hydraulic fracturing water cycle describes the use of water in hydraulic fracturing, from water withdrawals to make hydraulic fracturing fluids, through the mixing and injection of hydraulic fracturing fluids in oil and gas production wells, to the collection and disposal or reuse of produced water. These activities can impact drinking water resources under some circumstances.

This 2 PDH online interactive presentation is intended primarily for environmental engineers and professionals who are interested better protecting current and future drinking water resources in areas where hydraulic fracturing is occurring or being considered.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides a brief overview of the termite prevention and control methods for new or existing buildings.

 

Among the three termite types in the U.S., subterranean termites are the most destructive and economically important pests of wood and other cellulose products. The economic cost of termite damage to wood used in and around buildings is great, and the factors attributed to such rising costs are discussed in this presentation.

 

For homeowners, this presentation suggests methods for preventing subterranean termite attack before building or buying a new home or before remodeling. For the professional, this presentation may be consulted to better understand the use of termite control products. This presentation also tells where to look for termites in existing buildings, how to recognize their damage, and how to control them by both structural and chemical means.

 

This 1 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to the homeowner and pest management professional who are interested in possible methods for preventing subterranean termite attack in new and existing construction.

This online engineering PDH video presentation provides the background of what climate change is, the latest science concerning the causes of climate change, and why a company or other entity will stand to benefit in reducing GHG emissions. It also discusses risks related to Climate Change that can affect your company.

 

Climate Change is regarded internationally as one of the great challenges to mankind. There is little dispute that the climate is changing at a faster rate than ever, which will have great effects on public health, on our physical infrastructure, business, life and death in many countries, and our way of life. All of the major scientific agencies and associations publicly state that the major increase in the rate of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) caused by human-induced activities is at least a significant contributor to Climate Change. A recent global conference has resulted in an agreement to attempt to achieve a global reduction in GHG emissions. Many nations will create or change rules to limit GHG emissions. Many businesses will respond by attempting to reduce them. In many cases, actions to reduce GHG emissions also provide significant financial benefits.

 

This 3 PDH online video presentation is intended primarily for chemical, environmental, mechanical and industrial engineers who are interested in gaining a better understanding of the issue of Climate Change and GHG emissions.

This online engineering PDH video presentation addresses various strategies to reduce emissions into the air, including the proper approach to deciding on a strategy. It discusses different APC technologies, including their advantages and disadvantages. It also describes methods to measure success.

 

The risk of emitting toxic pollutants into the air such that impacts may cause public health issues, and the stringent federal and state regulations are reasons why facilities are required to reduce air pollution emission rates. The two most effective ways to reduce air emissions is process optimization (“Pollution Prevention”) and installation of “end-of-pipe” air pollution control (APC) technology.

 

This 2 PDH online video presentation is intended primarily for chemical, environmental, mechanical and industrial engineers who are interested in gaining a better understanding of air pollution control strategies.

This online engineering PDH video presentation introduces the laws and rules of ethics and professional responsibility governing the practice of engineering in the State of Texas. It also emphasizes on behavior as a professional member of the workforce.

 

This webinar presents the provisions of professional conduct from two viewpoints. First, your conduct as a professional engineer with behavior that is unique to engineers such as stamping drawings, signing official or technical documents, preparing estimates for clients or employers, and submitting engineering reports to official agencies. Second, your behavior as a member of the larger workforce where you communicate with team members, follow company policies and procedures, and your overall behavior as part of a workplace community.

 

Furthermore, this presentation discusses the disciplinary cases and its outcomes in situations where professional engineers have violated the requirements of professional responsibility and ethical conduct – the decisions we make when no one is watching.

 

This 1 PDH online video presentation is applicable to Professional Engineers licensed in the State of Texas and who are required to demonstrate continuing professional competency in engineering ethics as a condition of their license renewal. For each renewal period, every licensee must complete fifteen (15) professional development hours, at least one (1) of which must be relative to the law and rules professional responsibility, conduct and ethics.