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July 2006

 

In this edition:

1. New OSHA Safety & Health Specialist Certificate Program
2. 7 Essential Courses in 2006
3. Scholarships Available for HAZWOPER & Disaster Site Worker Training
4. Upcoming Courses & Events for July & August
5. Safety & Health News
6. How to Add/Remove from the eNews ListServ
7. Contacting Us

 

1. NEW OSHA Safety & Health Specialist Certificate Program

 

Program Overview

The certification program is intended to give the health and safety professional comprehensive knowledge of workplace hazards and an understanding of OSHA regulatory standards.  These practical courses help students immediately apply what they have learned. 

The Certificate will be awarded by The Region II: Atlantic OSHA Training Center (AOTC).  The AOTC is a collaboration of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, University at Buffalo, and the Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, Puerto, Rico. 

How the Program Works:

  • The certification program allows the student the opportunity to concentrate on construction or general industry. 
  • The student can take these courses at any OSHA Training Institute Education Center and transfer the credits.
  • All courses previously completed will be grandfathered. 
There is a $30 processing fee for the certification.

Click Here for full details in MS Word Format

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CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS

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(Click Below Courses for full description & offerings at AOTC Centers)

Certificate: “Construction Safety and Health Specialist Certificate”

Required Courses:

  1. OSHA 510: Occupational Safety and Health for Construction or OSHA 500: Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry
  2. OSHA 3010: Excavation, Trenching, and Soil Mechanics
  3. OSHA 3110: Fall Arrest Systems
  4. OSHA 7500: Introduction to Safety and Health Management
  5. OSHA 7505: Accident Investigation

Optional (3 electives):

  1. OSHA 7600: Disaster Site Workers
  2. OSHA 2264: Permit-Required Confined Spaces
  3. Asbestos Inspector
  4. Lead Inspector/Risk Assessor
  5. Principles of Scaffold Safety (2 days)

Certificate: “General Industry Safety and Health Specialist Certificate”

Required Courses:

  1. OSHA 511: Occupational Safety and Health for General Industry or OSHA 501: Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the General Industry
  2. OSHA 521: OSHA Guide to Industrial Hygiene
  3. OSHA 2225: Respiratory Protection
  4. OSHA 7500: Introduction to Safety and Health Management
  5. OSHA 7100: Machine Guarding

Choose two of three electives

  1. OSHA 2250: Principles of Ergonomics Applied to Work-Related Musculoskeletal and Nerve Disorders
  2. OSHA 2264: Permit-Required Confined Spaces
  3. OSHA 3095: Electrical

Choose two of three electives

  1. OSHA 7505: Accident Investigation
  2. OSHA 7845: Recordkeeping
  3. OSHA 7005: Warehouse and Warehousing Safety

 

2. 7 Essential Courses in 2006

 

7 Essential Courses Ad

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OPHP offers a number of courses for the occupational health professional.  Included are the hearing and spiromety training.

All of our programs offer certificates and continuing education credits.  

 

3. Scholarships Available for HAZWOPER & Disaster Site Worker Training

 

Click on any of the above links for a description of the courses, and contact K. Koshy at 732-235-9459 or koshyko@umdnj.edu to see if you qualify (scholarships are given on a first-come basis).

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4. Upcoming Courses & Events

 

(Click on a course to be taken to it's description in our registration

July 2006

Courses

August 2006

Courses

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View the on-line Calendar CLICK HERE

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CLICK HERE to download our 2006 Catalog in Adobe Acrobat format (~1.6 MB)

 

 

CET Courses at your Facility
   
  CET courses can be presented at your facility. For more information on how to schedule our courses at your facility, please contact K. Koshy at 732-235-9459 or koshyko@umdnj.edu

 

5. Safety & Health News

 

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paper iconNIOSH Warns N-95 Unit's Label is Erroneous

NIOSH's National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) in Pittsburgh  issued a notice June 29 that says a particulate respirator named Nano Guard  is labeled with a NIOSH approval number it has not earned. 2HDistributors is  representing and selling the Nano Guard as a NIOSH-approved respirator, but  it is not, NPPTL warned. Heinz Ahlers, chief of the lab's Technology Evaluation Branch, issued the notice  and attached a copy of the Nano Guard's package label, which appears to bear  the logos of NIOSH and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Health and  Human Services. Separately, NPPTL said June 23 that two NIOSH certificates of approval for  Crews Inc. Models RPN951 and RPN952 filtering facepiece respirators "are  null and void." Ahlers also issued this notice, which explained that the  certificates were voided by NIOSH "because there were false and material  misstatements in the applications submitted to NIOSH for the approval of these  respirators and these approvals should not have been issued. ... Respirators  bearing these approval numbers (TC-84A-4171 and TC-84A-4172) may no longer be  manufactured, assembled, sold, or distributed," it says. To contact the  Technology Evaluation Branch, call (412) 386-4000.

 

Basic  Steel Products Focus of New OSHA Online Health, Safety Resource

A new safety topics page on OHSA’s Web site seeks to assist employers  and employees with information on workplace standards for steel product manufacturing.  The guide has a number of additional resources, including information on safety  and health case studies and OSHA's alliances related to steel-related industries.

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 West  Nile Virology

July is a hotbed of human infection for North America's most dominant vector-borne  disease, writes Ronnie Rittenberry in the this month’s OHS. The  article discusses what you need to know to protect yourself and employees.  

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6. How To Add/Remove from the eNews ListServ

 

Adding yourself to the eNews ListServ

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7. Contacting Us

 

By Phone:

Bonnie Wilson, Registrar

phone: (732) 235-9450
fax: 235-9460

Hours of Operation
8 AM to 5 PM Eastern Standard Time

By e-mail:

ophpregistrar@umdnj.edu

In Person:

683 Hoes Lane West
Suite 110
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
OPHP Contacts

Bonnie Wilson
Registrar
(732) 235-9450
ophpregistrar@umdnj.edu  
   
Koshy Koshy, PhD
Program Manager  
(732) 235-9459  
koshyko@umdnj.edu
 
Gina DeLeone, BA
Program Coordinator   
(732) 235-9453
deleongm@umdnj.edu

Robyn Shumer, MPH
Health Educator
(732) 235-9451
shumerrb@umdnj.edu

Philip McCabe, CSW, CAS  
Health Educator  
(732) 235-8229  
philip.mccabe@umdnj.edu  
 
Mitchel Rosen, MS
Director
(732) 235-9452   
mrosen@umdnj.edu

Ben Chapman, BS
Webmaster
(732) 235-9457
Benjamin.Chapman@umdnj.edu