Published October 2007
Educational opportunities announced
(page 69)
Available educational opportunities include safety manuals, engineering courses, and association offerings.
Three manuals from Safety Smart
Many employees are injured within the first four months of starting a new job. Young, inexperienced workers are more than five times more likely to be injured during their first four weeks of employment. What Every New Employee Needs to Know About Safety: An Orientation Handbook is a quick reading reference guide on how to start their new career safely.
The Safe Supervisors Answer Book has straightforward answers to hundreds of questions on how to manage safety programs more effectively, train employees more easily, reduce workplace accidents and injuries, conquer difficult safety challenges, avoid common safety management mistakes, and more. The 160 pages are organized into five sections for easy reference in a three-ring binder.
Selling Safety to Your CEO: How to Make the Business Case for Safety provides the tools to make convincing presentations, details how an effective safety program can protect against possible legal penalties, and illustrates the high price companies pay for a weak safety program. Call 800/667-9300 to order.
UW-Madison Engineering Course
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Engineering Professional Development is offering the following CEU, LU, PDH classes. They are at the Madison campus unless indicated otherwise:
Oct. 1-2 Pumping Equipment and Systems: Selecting, Operating, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting (J659)
Oct. 3-4 Wastewater Treatment Engineering for Nutrient Removal (J610), Overland Park, Kan.
Oct. 3-5 Upgrading Your Sanitary Sewer Maintenance Program (J594), Overland Park, Kan.
Oct. 11-12 Soil Engineering for Non-Soils Engineers and Technicians (J601)
Oct. 22-26 Cross-Connection Control and Backflow Prevention (H944)
Oct. 29-30 Legal Aspects of Engineering, Public Works, and Construction (J708)
Nov. 12-14 Wastewater Treatment Plants: Processes, Design and Operation (J709)
Nov. 27-28 Storm Sewer System Design (J497), Las Vegas, Nev.
Nov. 29-30 Storm Water Detention Basin Design (J499), Las Vegas, Nev.
Dec. 10-11 Preparing an Effective Municipal Capital Improvements Plan (J487), Las Vegas, Nev.
Jan. 23-24 Soil Engineering for Non-Soils Engineers and Technicians (J603), Sunnyvale, Calif.
Call 608/262-2061 or visit http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu/course_ categories.lasso.
American Water Works Association
The organization is offering the following CEU/PDH seminars:
Oct. 10-11 Time to Renew Your Aging System: Whats in Your Tool Box? Seattle, Wash.
Oct. 11 LT2 Treatment Options, Charleston, W.V.
Nov. 5-7 Financial Management: Cost of Service Rate-Making, Las Vegas, Nev.
Nov. 15-16 Climate Change and Water Utilities: Planning for the Future, New Orleans, La.
Call 800/926-7337 or visit www.awwa.org.
Maine
The Maine WasteWater Control Association and York County Community College in Wells have developed a Certificate of Business Management for Wastewater program. Sessions are Thursday from 8 a.m. until noon at the college.
Nov. 1 - Dec. 20 Communications Skills
Jan. 3 - Feb. 21 Budget Management
Feb. 28 - April 10 Utility Finance
Sept. 4 - Oct. 23 Project Management
Oct. 30 - Dec. 18 Problem Solving
Jan. 8 - Feb. 26, 2009 Technical Skills/Regulatory Compliance
March 5 - April 23 Elective (training or computer skills)
Call 203/646-9282, ext: 203, or visit www.mwwca.org.
Joint Environmental Training Coordinating Committee (JETCC)
Programs are approved by Maine DEP for Wastewater Operator certification renewal credits.
Oct. 3-4 Laboratory Procedure with NEWEA Exam, Yarmouth
Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25, Nov. 1, 8 Basic Wastewater Treatment, Augusta
Oct. 23 Applying Process Control Techniques to WWTF Operations, Portland
Oct. 24 Pump Rebuild and Maintenance Workshop, Presque Isle
Nov. 15 Effective Management Practices for Operators and Supervisors, Saco
Dec. 4 Pump Station Retrofits and Troubleshooting, Brunswick
Dec. 6 PVC Valves, Connections, and Joining, Waterville
Dec. 12 Mixerology 101, Winthrop
For more information, call 207/253-8020 or visit www.jetcc.org.
