Continuing Education / Outreach

Ethics for Health and Safety Professionals Webinar:

Making the Right Choices
 

Dates: Location:

Two 2-hour sessions Total -- May 4 and May 11, 2010

11 am - 1 pm Pacific Time

online

Fee:  

Standard: $129

Early Bird (before 4/2/10): $99

Payment Terms (rev. 11./6/09): Substitutions may be made without additional charge. Cancellations must be in writing. Refund schedule:

  • Cancellation 15 or more business days before the class 80% of registration fee
  • Cancellation 7-14 business days before the class 50%
  • Cancellation less than 7 days before the class and "no shows" No refund

If course materials such as books have been sent to course participants in advance, the cost of that material will be subtracted from the refund.

UCLA reserves the right to postpone an offering 7 days prior to the course date should minimum enrollment requirements not be met. If a program is canceled, you will be notified and your registration fee will be refunded in full, less the cost of course materials sent in advance if they are not returned in the condition in which they were received. The liability of UCLA is limited to the course fee.

Overview:  

Through lecture and interactive discussion of case studies, we will examine the fundamental causes of our actions and examine the Code of Ethics for both health and safety professionals. At the end of this course, students will be able to: Identify a conflict of interest; understand the difference between what is ethical, moral, and legal; set out the facts in a case/investigation; identify and select among alternative actions; reflect bACK.

How It Works:

Attend from the convenience of your own desk or laptop. Prior to each session, you will receive a website link where you will log in to the session. For sound, you may use a headset or your computer's speakers. While there may be opportunities to speak, there is always a chat window available to type in questions and comments.


Who Should Attend:  

Environmental managers, industrial hygienists, engineers, safety specialists and other environmental and occupational health and safety professionals, union and worker health and safety representatives.


Tentative Agenda / Topics:
(subject to revision)

Is it a Moral Issue?

  • Is there something wrong personally, interpersonally, or socially?
  • Is there conflict that could be damaging to people? to institutions? to society?
  • Does the issue go deeper than legal or institutional concerns?
  • What does it do to people as persons who have dignity, rights, and hopes for a better life together?

Just the Facts

  • What are the relevant facts of the case?
  • What individuals and groups have an important stake in the outcome?
  • What is at stake for each?
  • Are there other important stakeholders in addition to those directly involved?
  • What are the options for acting?
  • Have all the relevant persons and groups been consulted?
  • If you showed your list of options to someone you respect, what would that person say?

What are the Alternative Actions

  • Which option will produce the most good and do the least harm?
  • Which option respects the rights and dignity of all stakeholders?
  • Even if not everyone gets all they want, will everyone still be treated fairly?
  • Which option would promote the common good and help all participate more fully in the goods we share as a society, as a community, as a company?
  • Which option would enable the deepening or development of those virtues or character traits that we value as individuals? as a profession? as a society?

Time for a Decision

  • Considering these perspectives, which of the options is the right thing to do?
  • If you told someone you respect why you chose this option, what would that person say?

Action then reflection

  • How did it turn out for all concerned?
  • If you had to do it over again, what, if anything, would you do differently?

Conflicts 

  • What are conflicts? How do you handle them? 
  • Can you waive a conflict -- how, who can do it, et cetera? 
  • Investigations and ethical argument. 
  • Is it ok to argue a position when the facts are against you?  What are the limits of such argument? 
  • Is there a difference between what is ethical, legal, moral?  

Faculty:  

MARK KATCHEN, MBA, CIH — Managing Principal for The Phylmar Group, Inc. with expertise in industrial hygiene, toxicology, occupational health, risk communication and e-commerce. He received his M.S. in Environmental and Occupational Health from CSUN and MBA from Loyola Marymount University. He has more than 25 years of experience in occupational and environmental exposure assessment in such industries as petrochemical, agriculture, mining, utilities and automotive. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and a State of California Registered Environmental Assessor. Mr. Katchen is on the faculty of UC Irvine and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Center for Health Promotion as well as serving on the CSUN Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Advisory Board. He is also the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s Ambassador to Israel serving as a liaison to environmental health and safety professionals in that country.


Professional Points:

  • ABIH— .67 Certification of Maintenance Points from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene have been — meets (exceeds) ABIH Ethics Requirement
  • Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #13555 (SCERC) for 4 contact hours.
  • BCSP and Continuing Education Units — Eligible for .2 Continuation of Certification Points/CEUs for session

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