PDC 004V: Using Safety and IH Codes of Ethics to Prepare for the Next Pandemic – NEW!

CM Credit Hours: 3.5 

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Occupational hygiene professionals have much to offer to protect workers from communicable diseases. Instead of closing workplaces, can we ethically keep workplaces open and operating in a safe and healthy environment? This PDC will review: 1) COVID-19 pandemic workplace control successes; 2) future pandemic preparedness; and 3) our ethical responsibilities to protect workers. Specific topics include: a) a review of our various Codes of Ethics, b) effective professional partnerships; c) high-risk occupations and environments; d) discussions with management and workers on politicized areas of concern; and e) opportunities for occupational hygiene support. The course meets the BCSP and BGC code of ethics recertification requirements but also honors workers who lost their lives to COVID-19. An optional pre-course email will be sent to encourage attendees to share photos and their ideas to make this an engaging team effort. This PDC will encourage attendees to think out of the box to effectively protect workers during a pandemic.

• Overview
• Review Codes of Ethics:
• OEHS Successes During the 1918 Great Influenza Pandemic and the 2019 Covid-19 Pandemic
• Work Closure and Reopening in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Is There a Better Way?
• The Next Airborne Pandemic
• What Will You Do Differently?
• Communicable Disease/Covid-19 References:
 

Upon completion, the participant will be able to:

• Review IH, safety, and public health codes of ethics.
• Relate these codes to communicable disease response.
• List OEHS successes during the Great Influenza and Covid-19 pandemics.
• Discuss the Covid-19 pandemic work closure and reopening experience.
• Establish OEHS tools that could be applied in the next pandemic.
• Strengthen teamwork skills. 

Attendees should be knowledgeable about OEHS protections for workers exposed to COVID-19. 

This PDC will encourage attendees to think out-of-the box to more effectively protect workers during an airborne pandemic so no workplaces need to be shut down and no workers die from workplace exposure to airborne disease in a future pandemic.  

Attendees will be able to estimate a return on investment for engineering controls in work situations. 

Intermediate

Laptop or Tablet/iPad

Consulting

All Industries

Also part of the Virtual Program

Changing Work Dynamics

Ethics

Management/Leadership

Virtual Only

Group activities

Practice exercises