Illinois Environmental and Laws/Rules/Ethics/Sexual Harassment 30 PDH Discount Package 3

This online engineering PDH course provides a general description of the steps in the investigation and cleanup of brownfields sites, and introduces Brownfields stakeholders to the range of technologies and resources available to them. The Road Map provides valuable information for stakeholders typically involved in or affected by redevelopment of Brownfields sites, whether through public projects, private development or public-private partnerships.

 

Brownfields sites are defined as “real property, the expansion, redevelopment or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant” (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended by the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002, §101(39)). The cleanup of Brownfields sites improves and protects the environment and may result in many benefits for the local community.

 

Revitalizing Brownfields sites has the potential to create benefits throughout the community, including community involvement in the project, job creation, and an increase in residential property values once a nearby Brownfields site is assessed or cleaned up.

 

This 6 PDH online course is intended for environmental, civil, and sustainability engineers as well as others seeking an outline on dealing with Brownfields in the United States and familiarizing with the EPA Brownfields Program.

This online engineering PDH course presents the factors affecting Indoor Air Quality (IAQ): sources of indoor air contaminates, HVAC systems design and operation, pollutant pathways and driving forces, and building occupants. Moreover, this course illustrates how "effective communication" between building management and building occupants is very essential in preventing IAQ problems.

 

The indoor environment in any building is a result of the interaction between the site, climate, building system (original design and later modifications in the structure and mechanical systems), construction techniques, contaminant sources (building materials and furnishings, moisture, processes and activities within the building, and outdoor sources), and building occupants. Indoor air contaminants can originate within the building or be drawn in from outdoors. If contaminant sources are not controlled, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) problems can arise, even if the HVAC system is properly designed and well-maintained.

 

EPA recognizes that IAQ problems present serious hazards to building occupants. Therefore, EPA developed this guide to protect building owners and building occupants from poor indoor air quality and to promote a healthy indoor environment in which the surroundings contribute to productivity comfort and a sense of health and well being.

 

This 2 PDH online course is applicable to civil, environmental and mechanical engineers, facility managers, building owners and all others who are interested in gaining an understanding of building air quality.

This online engineering PDH course provides tools and strategies that can be implemented during the brownfield cleanup and redevelopment process. This includes consideration of projected climate change and potential impact on vulnerable populations when performing brownfield site assessments, evaluating cleanup alternatives, and planning for redevelopment.

 

Many members of vulnerable populations, including children, the elderly, low-income communities and tribal communities, live close to brownfields and other blighted properties. Brownfield redevelopment presents opportunities to reduce blight and improve the quality of life for vulnerable populations while mitigating the impacts of climate change.

 

To build resilience to climate change, members of the community (including local government, businesses, academic institutions, banks, community leaders, and residents) must pursue climate change adaptation as well as mitigation.

 

This 5 PDH online course is intended for environmental and sustainability engineers, as well as others interested in learning more about the tools, strategies, and considerations of brownfield cleanup and redevelopment.

This online engineering PDH course provides guidance on the design of site specific remedial technologies at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. These remedial technologies typically include containment, treatment, disposal systems.

 

Control and containment technologies are those remedial systems that are used primarily for management of contaminants onsite to prevent excursions to the air or ground water. Control and containment remedial techniques are usually undertaken where the volume of waste or hazard associated with the waste makes it impractical or impossible to dispose of the contamination offsite or to treat the waste or contaminated material onsite. Site control and containment remedial techniques are often implemented along with treatment systems to minimize the volume of material requiring treatment.

 

This 10 PDH online course is applicable to civil, environmental and geotechnical engineers, as well as design and construction personnel involved with hazardous and toxic waste remedial activities.

This online engineering PDH course provides basic information on environmental quality and protection in the context of existing and proposed border security infrastructure and measures.

 

Border security is an important national priority, and environmental protection in the border region is of critical importance, given the rich natural resource endowments of the region. The shape and form of security infrastructure installed along the border is a critical factor affecting these areas of special concern. Additional installation of security infrastructure along the border will have a large impact on the region, presenting both challenges and opportunities to enhance security while preserving or even improving environmental sustainability.

 

There are mainly five key overlapping challenges in which environmental protection intersects with border security. These include, tourism and recreation economy; habitat integrity and wildlife corridors; water management; flooding, trash and sediment control; Hazmat and emergency response; and air quality.

 

This 4 PDH online course is applicable to environmental engineers who are interested in learning more about improving border security infrastructure while preserving environmental sustainability in the region.

This online PDH course presents a training on sexual harassment prevention in order to adopt and actively implement policies that ensure that workplaces are safe for employees to report and express their concerns about sexual harassment.

 

The Illinois Human Rights Act makes it a civil rights violation “[f]or any employer, employee, agent of any employer, employment agency or labor organization to engage in sexual harassment.” 775 ILCS 5/2-102(D).

 

The Illinois General Assembly finds that tolerance of sexual harassment has a detrimental influence in workplaces by creating a hostile environment for employees, reducing productivity, and increasing legal liability. Therefore, every employer in the State of Illinois is required to provide employees with sexual harassment prevention training that complies with section 2-109 of the Illinois Human Rights Act (“IHRA”).

 

This 1 PDH online course is applicable to professionals licensed in the State of Illinois and who are required to demonstrate continuing professional competency in sexual harassment prevention training as a condition of their license renewal.

This online engineering PDH course presents the laws and rules of ethics and professional responsibility governing the practice of engineering in the State of Illinois.

 

Engineering ethics is (1) the study of moral issues and decisions confronting individuals and organizations involved in engineering and (2) the study of related questions about moral conduct, character, ideals and relationships of peoples and organizations involved in technological development (Martin and Schinzinger, Ethics in Engineering).

 

Excerpts from the Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989, 225 ILCS 325 and the Illinois Administrative Code, Part 1380, which relate to the rules of profession conduct, continuing education requirements, proper use of seal and other pertinent regulatory provisions are presented in this course.

 

This 2 PDH online course is applicable to Professional Engineers licensed in the State of Illinois who are required to demonstrate continuing professional competency in the Illinois Laws, Rules and Ethics as a condition of license renewal. For each renewal period, every licensee must complete thirty (30) professional development hours, at least one (1) of the 30 hours must be in professional ethics and one (1) of the 30 hours must be in the laws and rules regulating the practice of engineering in the State of Illinois.