Radiation and Health Part 4: Introduction to Radiation Dosimetry

When radiation readings are included in a National Priorities List ("Superfund") site data package, public health assessors are sometimes uncertain about how to evaluate the data. For some health assessors, there can be a gap in their knowledge about the nature of radioactivity, their knowledge about how to accurately measure radioactive substances in environmental media, or how to deter...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=560

Planning for Powerful Public Participation

What is the course overview? Building on Elements of Powerful Public Participation, this course leads participants through a detailed understanding of how to plan for effective public participation under the Superfund program. Planning for effective public participation under these difficult conditions requires significant effort. The success and failure of public participation is largely determi...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=1592

Advanced Presentation Skills Workshop

Attention all CEC, OSC Readiness, and NARPM Training instructors!  This two-day  train-the-trainer workshop was designed specifically for experienced EPA technical and program staff who are involved in offering training for their peers. These programs are consistently rated as the best relevant, job-related training available by participants. To ensure this training  is the best pos...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=481

Integrating Water and Waste Programs to Restore Watersheds (Webcast)

Too often the approach taken to manage our resources is based on regulatory statutes and program organizational structure, rather than based on the resource itself. The two major USEPA programs that are actively involved in resource assessment and restoration include the water and waste programs. While these programs use very similar, and sometimes identical, approaches to assessment and cleanup, ...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=492

Facing an Angry Public

(Course title has changed along with an update in content!  Previous course title was: "Apology - Is it a Tool for Conflict Prevention or Resolution???? (An Interactive Discussion Workshop)") At one time or another it’s likely that each of us has faced anger from a citizen or regulated entity over actions that we took, or failed to take, in our roles with EPA. We have certain...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=891

OSHA 10-Hour General Industry Safety Course (29 CFR 1910)

THIS COURSE IS FOR U.S. EPA STAFF.  THIS COURSE IS NOT OPEN TO ACADEMIA, INTERNATIONAL ATTENDEES, CONSULTANTS, CONTRACTORS, OR ANY PRIVATE ENTITIES. This course is open to EPA Incident Command System (ICS) trained Safety Officers or EPA employees planning to serve as an EPA ICS Safety Officer, or General Employees where applicable due to job duties as outlined in EPA’s Safety, He...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=2000

Best Practices for Efficient Soil Sampling Designs

The 1-day course, Best Practices for Efficient Sampling Designs, discusses sampling designs for contaminated soils that go beyond simple random or “gridded” grab-sample formats. More advanced designs can reduce sampling and analytical costs while simultaneously improving data quality and usability. This course is presented using common sense concepts (not statistical equations!). ...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=573

Integrating Water and Waste Programs to Restore Watersheds

Introduction U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 has developed a manual, Integrating Water and Waste Programs to Restore Watersheds; A Guide for Federal and State Project Managers. The purpose of this manual is to help EPA better integrate assessment and cleanup activities across its programs when addressing the unique challenges presented by contaminated watersheds. This manua...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=611

Risk and Decision Making

What is the course overview? This course provides an overview of the principles, policies, and limitations of the chronic human health risk assessment process used by EPA. It includes a brief overview of public participation and communicating with the public regarding the concept of “risk.”  Participants also gain introductory experience in applying risk management. Who should...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=1155

Fine-Tune Your Spokesperson Skills: Individual Spokesperson Training/Coaching

What is the course overview? These one-on-one customized training/coaching sessions help EPA staffers develop and effectively deliver their messages to stakeholders. On-going media/spokesperson training is a must for anyone called upon to speak about an EPA program, project or issue. What you say and how you say it is critical to getting information out to the news media, community groups, an...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=1605