AS CLOSE AS YOUR COMPUTER!

Advanced Ergonomics Webinar Series - 2010
3rd Tuesday every month

** From time to time, an optional alternative session may be offered at a different time. Topics may include: How to apply findings from the best Ergonomics Research Published this year; Ergonomics in Construction; Ergonomics in Agriculture; Most Helpful Ergonomic Improvements

FACULTY

George Erich Brogmus, MS, CPE, M.Erg.S., Technical Director–Ergonomics, Business Markets Loss Prevention, Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
Mr. Brogmus is responsible for the technical quality of ergonomic consulting services for western divisions of Liberty Mutual.  Formerly a Senior Research Associate at the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, he has published peer-reviewed research articles on ergonomic measurement systems, lifting technique, repetitive motion injuries, occupational stress and the impact of work scheduling on injury risk. Mr. Brogmus is the creator of SIRE(tm), Liberty Mutual's Work Scheduling Impact Risk Estimator, co-inventor of the patented Liberty Mutual Musculoskeletal Stress Measurement System, and co-developer of VidLiTeC(tm), Liberty Mutual's quasi-dynamic
biomechanical lifting technique analysis system.

Some sessions may be presented by a guest speaker.

WHERE

Your computer

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.

COST

Registration Fee (per person):

Series of 12: $575 Series Early Bird: (before 12/1/09) $450

Individual sessions: $59 (Over the course of the year, if you attend 10 sessions at the individual session rate, you will be eligible for 2 additional sessions at no cost.)

ACCREDITATION

Approved for:
.5 IH CM points for every 3 hours/technical presentations by ABIH
1.0 BRN contact hour for each one hour session
.1CEU for every one-hour session

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Environmental Strategies for the 21 st Century & Beyond
Brownfields Management & Sustainable Development Webinar Series

Series Overview : A revolutionary interdisciplinary 18-session webinar has been developed that offers a unique opportunity to learn both the theory and practice of sustainable environmental management. An interactive “hands-on” case history practitioner training approach will be utilized to cover the engineering, scientific, legal, political, and ethical dimensions of environmental sustainability. An internationally recognized team of chief executive officers, senior environmental consultants, professional engineers, and LEED accredited professionals will lead participants through the body of knowledge needed to practice in the 21 st century and beyond as sustainable environmental development program managers.

Learning Segment 1 Sustainable Environmental/Brownfield Site Management ( January 21 - February 25 - 6 sessions) Overview - Sustainable development includes the proper use of limited resources to meet current human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present but also in the indefinite future. A rigorous analysis of scientific, legal, political and ethical issues will be conducted. Definitions and trade-offs between Brownfield and Greenfield development will be discussed. Innovative geo-chemical & geo-physical site investigation tools are now available to optimize the selective application of targeted remedial remedies in contaminant source areas. Principles of chemistry data validation will be reviewed.

Learning Segment II - Cutting Edge On-site Soil & Groundwater Remediation Solutions (March 4 - April 15 - 7 sessions) Overview - For decades, environmental decision makers have evaluated site remediation projects solely by determining how much contaminant can be removed from soil and groundwater in the shortest possible time. Given what we now know about energy scarcity and global warming, it makes little sense, environmentally or economically, to emit tons of greenhouse gases into the air in order to remove pounds of contaminants from soil and water. Too many remediation projects essentially trade one form of pollution for another. This costs a lot of money, burns a lot of fuel, and does not result in a net environmental benefit. In the past, valuable remediation resources have been squandered hauling contaminated soil and debris from hazardous waste sites to landfills that have also become “Superfund” sites.

Sustainable remediation incorporates a judicious evaluation of limited resources when selecting and implementing remedies to maximize the net environmental, societal, and economic benefits of a cleanup action. The question today is how to include sustainability principles and practices into remedial decision making, remedy optimization, and remedy changes.

Learning Segment III - Beyond Compliance - Proactive Sustainable Development (April 22 - May 20 - 5 sessions) Overview - "Command and control" compliance regulations were popular in the early stages of U.S. environmental regulation in the 1970's. They were based on engineering approaches to specific pollution sources, such as those designated as significant by the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. "Command and control" compliance regulations focus on preventing environmental problems by specifying how a company will manage a pollution-generating process. This approach generally relies on detailed regulations followed up by an ongoing inspection program.

"Performance oriented" regulation is an alternative whereby specific environmental performance goals, such as a reduction in the pollution associated with a process, is specified by the regulation and each facility determines the best method to achieve this goal. The concern with this approach is that it tends to be much more difficult to enforce because it requires an intimate understanding of the process and alternatives to the process. In general, the "performance oriented" approach requires the documentation of these and the environmental impacts associated with the process in a planning document, which can be reviewed by regulatory authorities. Proactive beyond compliance Sustainable Environmental Management Systems can form the basis for the format of such a plan.

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