Puget Sound OEM Grand Rounds -- Seattle
Cost: $45 includes dinner and lecture. A no-host bar will be available. The evening starts with a social hour from 5:15-6:00 pm. Dinner will be served at 6:00 pm, followed by a lecture from 7:00-8:00 pm. Latecomers may not be served dinner based on availability.
Location: The Faculty Club, University of Washington
Accreditation: Category 1 available for physicians from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Northwest Association of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
*Workers Compensation Patient Satisfaction Issues -- February 9
Thomas M. Wickizer, PhD, MPH. Professor, Health Services, University of Washington
*Genetic Testing in Occupational & Environmental Medicine – March 11
Paul Schulte, PhD. National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health
*Cost-Effectiveness of Pre-Employment Screening for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – April 8
Alfred Franzblau, MD. Professor, Occupational Medicine, University of Michigan
For more information and to register, please visit: http://depts.washington.edu/ehce/NWcenter/course/OMGR-02.html

Tools and Techniques to Improve Your Safety Training Programs -- February 11, Seattle, 8 am – 4:15 pm
Learn how to improve your safety training from Rick Gleason and other expert trainers.
Safety and health professionals need to be effective trainers if their messages are to make a difference in the workplace. This course will identify occupational safety and industrial hygiene resources and demonstrate effective training methods utilizing resources from OSHA, OR-OSHA, WISHA, and AK-OSHA. At the end of this course, participants will be able to build a library of training resources and understand how to improve their safety training programs.
Cost: $225
http://depts.washington.edu/ehce/NWcenter/course/Tools_Techniques_Safety-04.html

Focus on Safety: New Steel Erection Standards -- February 17, Seattle, 8 am- noon
Instructor: Clarence Atchison, Safety Training and Risk Reduction
This seminar will educate employers and workers about the revised steel erection standard. The seminar will update the latest requirements in hoisting and rigging requirements related to multiple-lifts, provide information regarding column anchorage, and the elimination of tripping hazards. Attendees will also learn of a new section to the rules that introduces open web steel joists, including landing and placing loads.
Cost: $75

Supervisory Safety & Health Duties -- February 18-19, Seattle
This two-day course taught by Rick Gleason will cover the general safety and health requirements in 29 CFR 1910 from the standpoint of supervising, training, administering, and organizing safety and health programs. It will also include regulatory requirements and specific applications for written program requirements, documentation, discipline, hazard evaluation, and control and compliance.
Cost: $245
http://depts.washington.edu/ehce/OSHA/course/Supervisory_SafetyHealth.html

Pesticide Safety, Health, & Medicine Conference -- February 19, Yakima
This year's Pacific Northwest Pesticide Issues Conference addresses pesticide safety, health, and medicine. The conference offers timely information on worker health, safety, and pesticide use, including training in cholinesterase monitoring and updates regarding the new Washington sate cholinesterase monitoring rule. The program is a combination of general and breakout sessions – providing tailored training sessions medical providers, grower/managers, and pesticide handler/applicators.
For additional information, visit http://pep.wsu.edu/education/issues04.html or contact Carol Ramsay at 509-335-9222. Hurry, early registration fee ends February 2!

OSHA 2250: Principles of Ergonomics – February 23-25, Seattle
Introduces the application of ergonomic principles to prevent musculoskeletal disorders. Topics include: work physiology; anthropometry; video display terminals; and risk factors, such as vibration, temperature, manual handling, repetition, and continuous keyboard use. Industrial case studies cover analysis and design of work stations and equipment; laboratory sessions focus on manual lifting and ergonomic protection standards. This course has been approved for 3.0 IH CM points by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. Fulfills elective credit for Safety & Health Specialist Certificate Program.
Cost: $525; $100 discount per person for multiple registrations
http://depts.washington.edu/ehce/OSHA/course/225.html

An Aging Workforce: Developing Health and Safety Strategies that Work -- February 27, Seattle, 8:30 am – 4:00 pm
This course provides information and tools to develop workplace strategies that maximize aging workers' safety and health. It also addresses the challenges employers face related to employment processes, productivity, illnesses, and injuries affecting aging workers. At the end of this course, participants will be able to understand new research and relevant issues related to the aging worker; identify physiological, psychological, and cognitive changes associated with aging; describe health and safety standards and resources for hazard identification and aging worker protection; identify community resources to develop health promotion programs for aging workers; design work environments that are responsive to the capabilities and limitations of the aging worker; and recognize legal issues to consider with an aging workforce.
Cost: $175 on or before February 11, 2004; $225 after http://depts.washington.edu/ehce/NWcenter/course/Aging_Workforce-04.html

OSHA 511: Standards for General Industry – March 1-4, Seattle
Federal and state policies, procedures, and standards, as well as general industry safety and health principles. Emphasis on most hazardous areas. Equivalent to 30-hour general industry outreach course. Prerequisite for OSHA 501: Trainer Course in OSHA Standards for General Industry. Professional credit is available.
Cost: $575; $100 discount per person for multiple registrations
http://depts.washington.edu/ehce/OSHA/course/511.html

Focus on Safety: Scaffolding – March 9, Seattle, 8 am – 5 pm
Instructor: Clarence Atchison, Safety Training and Risk Reduction
This seminar will help supervisors and workers identify and control the hazards that cause the most serious scaffold-related injuries. This course provides safety checklists for specific types of scaffolds. Hazards are identified, as well as the controls that keep these hazards from becoming tragedies. The course will address the requirements of Subpart L requirements in capacity, scaffold platform construction, criteria for supported and suspended scaffolds, access and use requirements, fall protection, and falling object protection.
Registration: $145 (includes lunch)
http://depts.washington.edu/ehce/OSHA/course/Focus_on_Safety.html

Zoonotic and Vector-borne Disease: Current and Emerging Issues -- March 12, Seattle, 8:30 am- 4:30 pm
This course will update veterinarians, physicians, wildlife handlers, extension agents, environmental health professionals, and other health officials on the status, trends, and issues regarding zoonotic and vector-borne diseases. The course focuses on diseases that are of the greatest threat to public health in the Pacific Northwest. Course topics include: zoonotic diseases of current veterinary and public health importance to the Pacific Northwest; zoonotic diseases associated with emerging vector-borne diseases, including those of pets and petting zoos; and, integration of veterinary medicine with public health
Cost: $175 on or before February 20; $225 after
http://depts.washington.edu/ehce/NWcenter/course/Zoonotic_VBD-04.html