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Course Description

The Environmental Health & Safety Academy is a unique 40-hour course designed to provide you with the general skills needed to identify, evaluate and control safety and health hazards.  This is a wonderful opportunity for new safety professionals in any setting.

You will learn about:

• Risk management and basic insurance principles
• Fire and life safety
• Physical safety
• Ergonomics
• Regulatory compliance
• Insurance and loss control
• Environmental management systems
• Chemical and biological safety
• Hazardous waste management
• Emergency response plans
• Employee training and professional development
• Collecting EHS metrics and recordkeeping
• Best methods to compellingly display EHS metrics
• Selling your safety program
• Effective communication strategies with mass media
• And much more!

Conference Learning Objectives

At the end of EH&S Academy training course, participants should be able to:

• Summarize the basic knowledge and procedures associated with risk management and insurance, fire and life safety, radiation, chemical and biological safety and environmental protection programs 
• Develop key performance measures and metrics of a safety program 
• Determine the most appropriate strategies of presenting performance measures and metrics to key constituencies 
• Identify the most common safety compliance challenges encountered in practice
  
• Choose the most appropriate strategies to prevent safety problems

Who Should Attend  

 The course is developed especially for health and safety professionals, particularly individuals charged with maintaining the health and safety of their faculty, staff, students, and visitors.  This course is helpful to anyone new to the health and safety field regardless of the industry. Experienced health and safety professionals new to the academic or government sector will find this course incredibly helpful. 

Registration Fees

$ 975 Early Registration (Ends September 3)

$ 1,175 Regular Registration (Ends September 16)

$ 1,375 Late Registration (Begins September 16)

UT Employees Only

UT System is sponsoring a limited number of scholarships for this program. To appy, you must complete the online form by clicking on the button below.