Radiation Safety - Overview for Environmental Professionals

This 1-day introductory level course is designed to provide participants with an overview and basic understanding of the fundamental principles of radiation safety, provide guidance on EPA radiation exposure limits for site work involving radioactive materials, and provide information on radiological area posting requirements. This course is intended for environmental professionals who are not ...
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Air Monitoring for Hazardous Materials

This 3-day course instructs participants in the practices and procedures for monitoring and sampling airborne hazardous materials. It is designed for personnel who evaluate releases of airborne hazardous materials. Evaluation of worker exposure to these releases is emphasized. Topics that are discussed include air monitoring and sampling programs, techniques, and equipment; instrument calib...
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Introduction to Environmental Geophysics

This 3-day course involves hands-on field surveys to search for geophysical anomalies generated by actual typical objects encountered on Superfund sites; and processing and interpretation of the data.  As such it requires use of a field with buried objects at known locations, orientations and depths and is currently only presented at the EPA Region 4 Laboratory in Athens, Georgia. This...
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Radiation Safety - Practical Applications

This 2-day radiation safety course is designed for environmental professionals who may be involved in the investigation, assessment, and evaluation of radiologically contaminated sites. This course is intended for environmental professionals who require the skills necessary to detect the presence of radioactive materials and perform radiation and contamination surveys to evaluate and control th...
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Advanced Groundwater Investigations

This 1-day, advanced groundwater course is designed to provide participants an opportunity to work in teams to apply their geologic and hydrogeologic skills to review and interpret data, develop an accurate conceptual site model (CSM), and complete a challenging site investigation. The problem involves contaminants and hydrogeologic conditions common to many Superfund sites: and requires f...
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Chemistry for Environmental Professionals - Fundamentals - Virtual Delivery

This 2-day virtual course provides participants with a review of fundamental chemical concepts which underlie an understanding of applied environmental chemistry concepts and practices. This course is designed for environmental professionals who are not chemists but who require a basic knowledge of chemistry and environmental chemistry in their work.  Some prior education in chemistry...
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OSC Training Guidelines

DRAFT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING PLAN GUIDELINES FOR U.S . EPA ON - SCENE COORDINATORS September 2001 DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT Foreword The EPA Removal Program has operations which must be performed , or rapidly and efficiently resumed , in an emergency . While th
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Chemistry for Environmental Professionals - Applied - Virtual Delivery

This 2-day virtual course provides participants with an introduction to applied environmental chemistry principles and practices which underlie the release, fate and transport, sampling, analysis, and cleanup of chemicals contaminating environmental media, with particular emphasis on soil and groundwater. This course is designed for environmental professionals who are not chemists, but who...
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Introduction to Risk Assessment Guidance With Expanded Eco-Risk

This 3.5-day course provides participants with the fundamentals of risk assessment as applied to the Superfund cleanup process. This course is designed to present an introduction to the Superfund risk assessment process to Project Managers, On-Scene Coordinators, Risk Assessment Reviewers, and potentially new Risk Assessors working at hazardous waste sites or treatment, storage, and disposal fa...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=1561

Air Monitoring for Emergency Response

This 2-day course instructs participants in the practices and procedures for monitoring airborne hazardous materials. It is designed for personnel who evaluate airborne releases of hazardous materials. Evaluation of worker exposure to these releases is emphasized. Topics covered include air monitoring strategies, techniques, and equipment; instrument calibration; instrument limitations; exp...
http://www.trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=439