ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRAINING & EDUCATION: PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

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Industry-Foodborne Illness Investigation Training and Recall Response (l-FITT-RR) Workshop

Monday, July 7, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Do you and your staff know what to do if a foodborne illness or food recall occurs? If not, you need to attend this workshop to get the critical training needed to respond to these issues.

This NEHA/FDA supported workshop is designed to bridge the gap between the retail food industry and local and state regulatory officials in an effort to create stronger working relationships prior to a potential foodborne incident or recall occurring. It will help you

* understand the steps for responding to a potential illness outbreak,

* know what to do when you get customer or product complaints,

* learn what's involved in food recalls and what you need to do, and

* be more familiar with the different agencies that work together to help you get through a food-related crisis.

This workshop is designed for retail food stores and food service establishments (restaurants, grocery stores, casinos, etc.); single unit to large chains; mid-level managers and above; and quality assurance/quality control professionals.

Cost to attend is $39 per person and space is limited to 30 people.

Springboard to Prevention: The Model Aquatic Health Code, 1st Edition

Monday, July 7, 1:00 - 5:00pm

Over the past six years a group of public health, academic, and industry experts have been working with CDC to develop the first comprehensive public health guidance for swimming pools and aquatic venues in the U.S. This workshop will present the first completed version of the Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC). The MAHC will be a guidance document that can help local and state authorities update or implement swimming pool and spa codes or standards without having to "recreate the wheel." The workshop will cover

* common health concerns at aquatic venues,

* key concepts influencing lifeguarding staffing plans,

* secondary disinfection, and

* a science-based operational and communication support toolkit for aquatic and pool programs.

Cost is free with a full or one-day conference registration to the NEHA 2014 AEC.

INNOVATION & INTERNATIONAL SESSIONS

Building a World of Innovative Ideas for Environmental Health

This year's combined NEHA and IFEH event will offer sessions that help environmental health professionals adapt to and excel in the ever-changing economic, professional, and global landscape by learning the best tips, tricks, and tweaks needed to thrive in their positions.

CHILDREN'S EH

Keeping Children Safe and Healthy Through Comprehensive Child Care Center Regulations

Are your children protected against secondhand smoke, scalding hot water, and shigellosis outbreaks in the child care center where they spend a great deal of time? Are they assured of receiving healthy meals and regular outdoor exercise in a safe playground? Learn in this session how one county developed environmental health regulations to ensure protections against these and other environmental hazards and how you can do the same in your jurisdiction.

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & RESPONSE

Environmental Health and Disaster Management: An International Effort for Training and Awareness

Globally, environmental health professionals have a critical role in mitigating public health risks before and after disasters. To build this capacity, IFEH, CDC, and NEHA have collaborated to develop the course "Environmental Health and Disaster Management," which was heavily guided by CDC's successful Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response course. Attend this session to see how this type of course promotes the profession and ensures that professionals are adequately equipped to prepare, respond, recover, and mitigate the adverse impacts of disasters internationally.

Incorporating Emergency Preparedness into Retail Food Facility Inspections

What can you do to make food facilities strong and capable of moving forward after a disaster? This session will describe how to efficiently address emergency preparedness with operators during routine food facility inspections and will provide resources for your reference. This approach provides an opportunity for the regulator and operator to partner not only to increase chances of the facility's success after a disaster, but to reduce time spent on post-disaster assessment, and protect the public's health at the same time.

Protecting the Living Environment of Survivors in Congregate Shelters During Disasters: Is Public Health Ready?

Shelters play an important role in providing safety and basic human needs for survival during disaster situations and are an important priority for public health agencies responding to any disaster. This session will describe the current knowledge and use of assessments as well as the importance and benefits of using them as a data collection tool for decision making and occupant protection. Attend this session to see how to implement assessment procedures and tools in your jurisdiction's disaster response.

Disaster Management Challenges From NonCommunicable Diseases: Lessons Learned and Questions Going Forward

Due to population aging and an increase in longevity, there has been a disease transition to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which are the challenge for the 21st century. This is a new concept for environmental health and disaster management to explore, as the focus has traditionally been on communicable diseases in the disaster setting. Today, damages to public health infrastructure such as food, water, and sanitation place the vulnerable population with NCDs at great risk. Attend this group exercise to discuss and debate possible approaches to and roles environmental health professionals play in mitigating the risks of disaster.

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

101 Ways to Improve Health Equity

IFEH works to disseminate knowledge concerning environmental health and promote cooperation between countries where environmental health issues are transboundary. IFEH recently adopted Policy 10, based on the WHO report "Closing the Gap in a Generation," which aims to improve health equity through action on the social determinants of health. The session will showcase how colleagues around the world are making a difference! What problem are they addressing? What actions have been taken? What outcomes are being delivered? And, how can YOU make a difference where YOU are?

FOOD PROTECTION AND DEFENSE

Foods Without Frontiers

"Farm to Fork" is a great slogan, but how do we really ensure food safety when the farm is in one country, processing in another, and consumers in a third, fourth, or more countries? Using the recent international food safety recall of Karicare Whey Protein Concentrate for a contaminated ingredient, you'll see that simply knowing about an adverse event in your country is no longer enough. This session will identify gaps in international incident notification systems such that attendees will be equipped to act to fill those gaps and respond promptly and efficiently to the next incident that arrives at the shipping dock.

Focusing Disney Magic on Food Safety

This Learning Lab will demonstrate how the latest Disney technologies and smart temperature probes are being used in food service food safety and impacting inspections. When you put your hands on these technologies in this session, you'll have a FASTPASS for food safety. Bypass the complexity. Go straight to the critical control points. Take your process for a ride. And when it's all over, you get a digital "picture" for your records. This session will give you the skills and confidence you need to conduct inspections or audits in facilities using these types of technologies.

How to Deliver Effective Food Safety Programs on a Tight Budget

Due to the worldwide economic downturn and its effect on government spending, existing UK delivery models for food hygiene inspections are now in need of review. This session will quantifiably describe the economic and programmatic challenges agencies are facing using Wales as the example. The session will examine the traditional food hygiene inspection program model and then evaluate contemporary adaptive approaches that are more innovative, imaginative, and targeted. These techniques may help your agency provide a quality service while protecting public health.

Catch Me If You Can-Misbranding, Adulterating, and Counterfeiting Foods: A National/lnternational Food Incident Workshop

Recent food fraud incidents involving melamine, horse meat, and rat meat necessitate that local, national, and international government and industry stakeholders have knowledge of response when an incident occurs in their jurisdictions. The newest FDA Food Related Emergency Exercise Bundle (FREE-B) exercise explores such a food fraud scenario. When faced with this situation, what are the risks? Who gets involved? What are the handoffs to different national or international government agencies? This workshop includes live participation of international stakeholders via a web platform. In addition, related multi-lingual educational materials will provide attendees with immediately applicable resources for the stakeholders in their own jurisdictions.

HEALTHY HOMES AND COMMUNITIES

Clever Software Tools That Advance Health in Homes

Get an introduction to the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) and English housing enforcement work. Then try two useful software tools to help with using HHSRS. Hunt for hazards in a virtual home, a tool which can be taken away for free. Then try an online tool to justify budgets by calculating the cost savings from using the HHSRS. Bring your laptops and tablets!

Implementing a Community-Based Child Care Program Utilizing the Healthy Homes Rating System

This session will review a case study of the expansion of the local healthy homes program to home-based and small child care providers. A community organization created a new healthy child care assessment program based on the Healthy Homes Rating System. The program rates 29 environmental, health, and safety hazards for their potential to harm residents and enables those risks to be mitigated. The local fire department even accepts the assessment as equivalent to a fire inspection. Attend this session to learn how a program like this can benefit your community.

LAND USE PLANNING & DESIGN

Outside-the-Box Advocacy: Organizing Public Health's Engagement in Built Environment Advocacy

The buzz phrase "Health in All Policies" has almost become ubiquitous, especially in public health's efforts to come to the land use planning and infrastructure design discussion. Tulsa Health Department will share their project's success using community engagement and collaborative relationships. They'll provide you with some innovative techniques to use when resources are limited to educate and advocate for health with decision makers, the public, and your own agency.

Annoyance and Perception of Noise in Rural and Urban Areas of France

Traffic, urban, and occupational noises are now described as major environmental problems, which can greatly interfere with health. This session will discuss the results of a survey conducted to identify the perception of noise pollution in occupational and domestic environments. Attend this presentation to identify possible interventions and recommendations that may alleviate health risks from noise pollution.

NEHA and SORA are again partnering to bring together onsite regulators and industry leaders for decentralized and onsite wastewater treatment The sessions offered by the NEHA and SORA partnership will focus on topics such as sustainability reuse, reciprocity and other emerging issues.

ONSITE WASTEWATER

Sustainability Is the Name of the Game: EPA's Decentralized Wastewater Program Efforts

There are small and underserved rural communities across the U.S. in need of first-time and adequate access to water and wastewater infrastructure. Through joint efforts with many government agencies, EPA has developed programs and tools such as workshops in a box to assist these communities in creating sustainable solutions that will meet their current and future needs. Attend this session to gain knowledge and resources to implement programs in your community even on a shrinking budget.

Currumbin-A Community Designed Around Environmental Sustainability and Wastewater Reuse in Queensland, Australia (NEHA/SORA session)

On the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia, EcoVillage at Currumbin is a community focused on implementing and teaching sustainable development principles. Wastewater systems were chosen that created the lowest total impact to the environment in its manufacturing, construction, and operation. After treatment followed by UV and chlorine disinfection, the wastewater from 144 homes and numerous community facilities is recirculated to homes for reuse via toilet flushing, car washing, garden watering, and landscape irrigation. Attend this session to see how these award-winning techniques could make a difference in your community.

PATHOGENS AND OUTBREAKS_

Who's Missing From the Table? Building Partnerships With the Medical Community in Foodborne Illness Surveillance

Detecting increases in self-reported foodborne illnesses and low report rates by medical providers, Kern County Environmental Health implemented an innovative approach to enhance collaboration between environmental health, public health, and the medical community. The execution of the Foodborne Illness Surveillance Guidance Training for Medical Professionals became a successful method in communicating with the medical community and improving foodborne illness surveillance. This presentation will provide an overview of the workshop design, challenges, results, and next steps that you may want to apply within your community.

Restroom Infection Control: Chlorhexidine, the Final Frontier

Pioneering, award-winning work at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, UK, has demonstrated the remarkable residual antimicrobial activity of chlorhexidine on surfaces, thereby maintaining their continuous cleanliness over time. In this school-setting trial, the presenters will demonstrate significant improvements in continuous cleanliness of restroom door handles. Attend this session and join in the discussion of the possible benefits of applying this simple, inexpensive technique beyond clinical and office environments.

RECREATIONAL WATER

Rethinking Recreational Water Monitoring: Can Predictive Modeling Increase Public Health Outcomes?

Canadian recreational water safety practices are put into an international context by comparing them with the EPA and WHO guidelines. A review of the use of a geometric mean will identify the limitations of using bacteriology in general, and the geometric mean of E. coli in particular, as the basis of recreational water safety decision-making, and determine the most appropriate, evidencebased values of the geometric mean for recreational water to be considered safe. Use these results in your organization to create a comprehensive risk assessment strategy, forecasting models, and risk management approaches to posting recreational water safety.

Developing a Drowning Prevention Awareness Program That Works for You (NEHA/APSP session)

The Florida Department of Health, Brevard County, won the 2013 Dr. Neil Lowry Award for their very successful drowning prevention program. This presentation will illustrate the importance of public outreach and demonstrate how to fund your program with grant writing and develop novel partnerships. Could implementing these key elements save lives in your community?

VECTOR CONTROL & ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Get Results! Tools for Managing a Public Health Nuisance Program (Sponsored by Orkin)

The housing crisis and diminished mental health services have resulted in more complaints and public health nuisance inspections at Franklin County Public Health. See how simple triage and scoring tools were used to categorize and prioritize complaints to get results and gain recognition in the community. In this session, you'll be able to evaluate this approach and test these tools as a way for your department to manage public health nuisances with limited funds and staff.

Integrated Approach to Malaria Prevention in Uganda: Experiences From a Pilot Project

This pilot project promoted an integrated approach to the prevention of malaria at the household level in two rural communities where malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. This project conducted a baseline survey on malaria prevention knowledge and practices, trained community health workers, increased awareness of the population of an integrated approach to malaria prevention, and established study demonstration sites. The integrated approach to malaria prevention was well received by the study communities and work continues to assess health benefits and community perceptions of this approach. Available data will be shared with attendees during the session.

WATER QUALITY_

Tools and Data for Identifying Areas With a High Potential for Private Well Contamination

In many areas there are concerns about private well water quality, but little data on levels of contaminants such as nitrate, arsenic, and uranium. We have compiled extensive groundwater quality data from national, state, and local sources and generated maps spanning the U.S. showing where there is the greatest chance of elevated levels of these contaminants. In this session, you will be shown how to access and interpret these maps and data for application in your jurisdiction.

Attend the Awards Ceremony on July 8 to find out who wins the NEHA Environmental Health Innovation Award.

In its second year, this award is presented to an individual, team, or organization for an innovative contribution in the form of a new idea, practice, or product that has had a positive impact on improving environmental public health and the quality of life. Change that promotes or improves environmental health protection is the foundation of this award.

MORE SESSIONS BY TRACK

Acquire comprehensive information from subject matter experts and industry leaders, and learn from your peers as you share.

CHILDREN'S EH

* Lessons Learned About Environmental Health in the World of Child Care

* Beating the Odds: Eliminating Lead Exposure for Kids in the Nation's Capital

* Association Between Risk of Birth Defects and Arsenic Concentrations in Soils of China

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & RESPONSE

Hurricane Sandy: A Complex Environmental Health Communications Challenge

Enhancing Planning and Preparedness: Development of an E-Learning Tool for Chemical Incidents

Public Health Preparedness: Examination of Legal Language Authorizing Responses to Radiological Incidents

Destructive Wildfires and Devastating Floods: EH's Response and Role in Recovery

* To Tweet or Not To Tweet: Leveraging Social Media for Environmental Health

FOOD PROTECTION AND DEFENSE

Food Safety Focus Series I: A National Collaborative Effort to Support the FDA National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Sponsored by Pro metric and Skillsoft)

Food Safety Focus Series II: Local Experiences With the FDA Retail Food Program Standards (Sponsored by Prometric and Skillsoft)

Food Safety Apps Can Improve Food Safety Standards

Applying a Behavior Change Model Proven to be Effective in Child Care Settings to Licensed Food Establishments

Investigation of a Large Foodborne Illness Outbreak in Toronto, Canada

* Southern Nevada Health District THINK RISK Initiative

* FDA'sOral Culture Learner Project: Helping Food Employees Understand the Importance of Food Safety

* The Great Food Truck Race...for Food Safety

Flip the Fean How the FDA, ADA, and Lesley University Changed the Face of Public Health and Food Safety in 2013

Nanotechnology Implications for Food and Food Safety

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES

Burning to Know: Neighborhood Mercury Exposure From Crematoriums

* Lead Poisoning Outbreak Resulting From Construction and Renovation atan Indoor Firing Range

* Smoke and Ash Deconstructed-Not Just Particles

HEALTHY HOMES AND COMMUNITIES

* Hazard Assessment in Houses and Some Clever Software Tools

Multi-Agency Approach in the Closure of a Motel

Fungal Bioburden in Foreclosed Homes Using ERMIsm as an Indicator

The Public Health Challenge of Hoarding

Pesticide Usage and Pesticide Dust Concentrations in Residences of Asthmatic Children Living in Subsidized Housing in Philadelphia

LAND USE DESIGN & PLANNING

Developing Policy to Address Near Roadway Pollution Health Hazards

Annoyance and Perception of Noise in Rural and Urban Areas of France

Outside-the-Box Advocacy: Organizing Public Health's Engagement in Built Environment Advocacy

Levels of Heavy Metals in Traffic-Related Particulate Matter Along a Major Motorway in Nigeria

Keys to Facilitating Healthy Cities Partnership in Indonesia: A Case Study

Air Quality Assessments Using Satellite Derived High Resolution Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals

LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT

Building Agency Capacity

Leadership Development: Key Considerations for Mentoring Millennial

Characterization of Competencies Required for Successful Environmental Health Work

American Academy of Sanitarians Presents an Environmental Health Master Class

Building an Environmental Health Program of Excellence in a Time of Austerity

Organizational Culture Change: A Local Experience of Going From Fair to Great

Implications of the Affordable Care Act on Environmental Health

ONSITE WASTEWATER

Transfer of Property Requirements: Training, Certification, and Politics

Grey Water and Water Reuse in the Southwest

Market Impacts of Product Testing, Product Acceptance, and Regulations (NEHA/SORA session)

* Onsite Wastewater Treatment and the Value of Independent Certification

The Proliferation of Blue-Green Algae: Context, Challenges, and Innovative Solutions

* Realtors and Environmental Health, Partners in a Successful Mandatory Point-of-Sale Program

PATHOGENS AND OUTBREAKS

* Don't Gamble With Norovirus: Prevention, Control, and Containment of a Norovirus Outbreak in a Casino

* Issues and Challenges: Investigation of a Foodborne Outbreak in Jamaica

* Investigation of a Foodborne Illness Outbreak in Toronto, Canada

RECREATIONAL WATERS

* Chlorine Resistant Pathogen Treatment Strategies for Recreational Water (NEHA/ APSP session)

* Gage-Bidwell Law of Purification: Old Errors Corrected and New Relevance Identified (NEHA/APSP session)

* Developing a Drowning Prevention Awareness Program That Works for You (NEHA/APSP session)

* Hot Tub and Spa Inspection Data: The Power to Prevent Illness and Injury

* Pool and Spa Safety Act Program: Implementation and Findings in Seattle and King County

SCHOOLS/INSTITUTIONS

* Food-Safe Schools: Food Safety Beyond the Cafeteria

* School Indoor Air Quality Improvement: Lessons from Multnomah County, Oregon

* Correcting Corrections: Surviving Jail Inspections and High Risk Inmate Activities

SUSTAINABILITY/CLIMATE CHANGE

* Climate Change and Sustainability: Navigation of Governance, Energy, and Built Environment Opportunities

* Triggers for Change in the Safest Place on Earth

* International Perspectives on Climate Change and the Role of Environmental Health

* Climate Change Impacts and Options: Case Studies in the Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska

TECHNOLOGY AND EH

* Help! Everyone Wants My Data: A Look at Streamlining Data Collection for Environmental Health Programs

* Building Agency Capacity

* Environmental Public Health Tracking: Developing Nationally-Consistent Community Environmental Health Profiles

* Public Health Mythbusters

* Using the Lean Program to Improve Efficiency in Environmental Health Services

* Implementation of GIS for Research on Neural Tube Defects in China

* Pick a Favorite Technology To Help You Improve Inspection-Based Hand Washing

VECTOR CONTROL & ZOONOTIC DISEASES (SPONSORED BY ORKIN)

* University Integrated Pest Management Program Success With GIS Mapping Software

* Integrated Approach to Malaria Prevention in Uganda: Experiences From a Pilot Project

* Hantavirus in Northern Arizona: Investigation and Response

* Stamping Out Bed Bugs: An Organization and Systems Approach in Action

* New Urban Rat Control Program Development in the Post Recessionary Environment

* Using Heat to Treat for Bed Bugs in a Homeless Shelter

* Get Results! Tools for Managing a Public Health Nuisance Program

WATER QUALITY

* Tools and Data for Identifying Areas With a High Potential for Private Well Contamination

* Using a Rapid Bacteria Screening Method to Assess Legionella Risk

* Containing an Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis in Galway: The Role of the Environmental Health Service

* An Innovative Response to Preventing Legionellosis Outbreaks

* Arsenic in Iowa's Groundwater-The Unknown Threat: A Pilot Study in Cerro Gordo County

Be a voice.

You Spoke, We Listened...

NEHA used your participation in our 2014 Abstracts Blog and your responses to our conference surveys as guidance in choosing sessions and developing the training and education program. THANK YOU for giving us feedback so we can advance the proficiency of the environmental health profession AND help create bottom line improvements for your organization!

FROM THE BLOG

* The Great Food Truck Race...for Food Safety

* Restroom Infection Control: Chlorhexidine, the Final Frontier

* Arsenic in Iowa's Groundwater-The Unknown Threat: A Pilot Study in Cerro Gordo County

* Triggers for Change in the Safest Place on Earth

* Disaster Management Challenges From NonCommunicable Diseases: Lessons Learned and Questions Going Forward

FROM CONFERENCE SURVEYS

* Inspection technology and use of apps in EH:

» Help! Everyone Wants My Data: A Look at Streamlining Data Collection for Environmental Health Programs

» Enhancing Planning and Preparedness: Development otan E-Learning Tool for Chemical Incidents

» Focusing Disney Magic on Food Safety

» Food Safety Apps Can Improve Food Safety Standards

» Using the Lean Program to Improve Efficiency in Environmental Health Services

* The Leadership/Management track will address your concerns related to:

» The future of the EH practice

» Demonstrating program effectiveness

» Value and return on investment for environmental health programs

» Building agency capacity under reduced budgets and staffing collaborations/programs

* Hoarding, bed bugs, and rats-we've got them covered in our Vector Control & Zoonotic Diseases and Healthy Homes and Communities tracks!

* Evaluation of the built environment and its link to public health-check out sessions in the Land Use Planning & Design track!

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