NWCOHS Courses

Motivation plays an important part of someone’s willingness to adhere to safety protocols and guidelines, reducing risks and accidents in the workplace. Leadership effectiveness can be accelerated by understanding what theories, capabilities, and motivation foster leader and follower development at all levels of experience.  This course will provide insight into unlocking the motivations and abilities related to increasing your leadership effectiveness. 

Our past participants have been health and safety professionals looking to foster safety compliance, to face challenges bringing about the adoption of fast-changing requirements in the workplace. Participants will complete an online self-survey to explore their motivation and ability to understand how to activate positive leadership capabilities, which we refer to as leader developmental readiness.

 

The course brings together content from an expert line-up of faculty and practicing professionals in an online, on-demand format that includes video lectures, interactive activities and case-based problem solving in order to increase competency of nurses and other healthcare providers with occupational health responsibilities. The program is designed to familiarize practicing nurses with occupational injuries and illnesses and the tools and resources to recognize, diagnose, treat, and report them.

This course is part of the Health and Safety Solutions in Agriculture Community Engagement Online Course Series.  In this course you will learn how heat affects workers and common risk factors for heat related illnesses. You will learn how to recognize different heat related illnesses, how to recognize them, and how they can be treated.  The goal of this course is to improve the awareness of heat-related illness and provide solutions by using the resources in the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Health and Safety Center toolkit.

This course is part of the Health and Safety Solutions in Agriculture Community Engagement Online Course Series.  In this course you will learn how heat affects workers and common risk factors for heat related illnesses. You will learn how to recognize different heat related illnesses, how to recognize them, and how they can be treated.  The goal of this course is to improve the awareness of heat-related illness and provide solutions by using the resources in the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Health and Safety Center toolkit.

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Este curso es parte de la serie de cursos en línea de participación comunitaria en soluciones de salud y seguridad en la agricultura. En este curso, aprenderá cómo el calor afecta a los trabajadores y los factores de riesgo comunes de las enfermedades relacionadas con el calor. Aprenderá a reconocer diferentes enfermedades relacionadas con el calor y cómo tratarlas. El objetivo de este curso es adquirir más conciencia respecto a las enfermedades relacionadas con el calor y proporcionar soluciones mediante el uso de los recursos del kit de herramientas del “Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (PNASH)”.

This course is part of the Health and Safety Solution in Agriculture Community Engagement Online Course Series. You will be introduced to practical solutions for pesticide exposure and safety solutions, including a review of two pesticide safety solution projects, fluorescent tracer techniques and pesticide drift. Last, you will also be introduced to the Bilingual Pesticide Safety Project. This project is led by members of the PNASH team and will explore two mobile applications within the bilingual pesticide safety project and how you can get involved.

This course is part of the Health and Safety Solution in Agriculture Community Engagement Online Course Series. You will be introduced to practical solutions for pesticide exposure and safety solutions, including a review of two pesticide safety solution projects, fluorescent tracer techniques and pesticide drift. Last, you will also be introduced to the Bilingual Pesticide Safety Project. This project is led by members of the PNASH team and will explore two mobile applications within the bilingual pesticide safety project and how you can get involved.

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Este curso es parte de la serie de cursos en línea de participación comunitaria en soluciones de salud y seguridad en la agricultura. Se le presentarán soluciones prácticas para la exposición a pesticidas y soluciones de seguridad, incluida la revisión de dos proyectos de soluciones de seguridad con los pesticidas: la técnica del marcador fluorescente y deriva de pesticidas. Por último, también se le presentará el Proyecto Bilingüe de Seguridad con los Pesticidas, el cual está dirigido por miembros del equipo de PNASH y se explorarán dos aplicaciones móviles y cómo puede usted participar.

This course is part of the Health and Safety Solution in Agriculture Community Engagement Online Course Series. In this course you will learn It's everyone's responsibility to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. The toolkit helps everyone understand their roles and responsibilities for preventing harassment by providing education and tools for growers to the supervisors and workers. This course will describe how to maintain a healthy work environment in an agricultural setting. Promoting the dignity and the rights of others is essential to creating and maintaining a positive, healthy, and productive workplace. This course is divided into five key topics and includes case scenarios, interactive activities and videos to help reinforce the core message to show respect for others.

This course is part of the Health and Safety Solution in Agriculture Community Engagement Online Course Series. In this course you will learn It's everyone's responsibility to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. The toolkit helps everyone understand their roles and responsibilities for preventing harassment by providing education and tools for growers to the supervisors and workers. This course will describe how to maintain a healthy work environment in an agricultural setting. Promoting the dignity and the rights of others is essential to creating and maintaining a positive, healthy, and productive workplace. This course is divided into five key topics and includes case scenarios, interactive activities and videos to help reinforce the core message to show respect for others.

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Este curso es parte de la serie de cursos en línea de participación comunitaria en soluciones de salud y seguridad en la agricultura. En este curso aprenderá que es responsabilidad de todos el prevenir el acoso sexual en el lugar de trabajo. El kit de herramientas ayuda a todos a comprender sus roles y responsabilidades para prevenir el acoso al brindar a los supervisores y trabajadores educación y herramientas para los productores. Este curso describirá cómo mantener un ambiente de trabajo saludable en un entorno agrícola. El promover la dignidad y los derechos de los demás es esencial para crear y mantener un lugar de trabajo positivo, saludable y productivo. Este curso está dividido en cinco temas clave e incluye escenarios de casos, actividades interactivas y videos para ayudar a reforzar el mensaje principal para mostrar respeto a los demás.

The laboratory environment has many risks associated with chemical hazards.  Teachers, researchers, staff, and students benefit when an effective chemical management system goes beyond simply complying with local, state, and federal standards.  The laboratory community is seeking new tools and best practices for creating a safe learning environment and workplace.  The goal of this on-demand course is to increase laboratory safety and the use of safer alternatives in teaching and research laboratories.  Teachers can earn 9 clock hours from the Washington Science Teachers Association for completing the course.

NIOSH-Approved Spirometry Training courses offered at the University of Washington (UW) incorporate the most recent American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society (ATS/ERS) spirometry testing procedures and interpretation standards. The ATS is the leading medical professional society in the United States that provides evidence based statements for pulmonary function laboratory standards, testing procedures, and the interpretation of test results. This course is designed for technicians who have never taken the NIOSH Spirometry certification course, or with certificates more than 5 years old. This class is appropriate for novice as well as highly experienced spirometry technicians.

NIOSH-Approved Spirometry training courses offered at the University of Washington (UW) incorporate the most recent American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society (ATS/ERS) spirometry requirements and testing procedures. The ATS is the leading medical professional society in the United States that provides evidence-based statements for pulmonary function laboratory standards, testing procedures, and interpretation of test results.
The 1-day refresher course is designed for experienced spirometry technicians who have completed a NIOSH spirometry certification course within the last five years. Documentation of a valid NIOSH Spirometry certificate is required.

Series Overview

This mixed-media online series serves as an introduction to a variety of important occupational diseases. The individual 80-100 min units will be rolled out over the next year, and are organized around work-related diseases using public health scenarios and clinical cases.

Compressive Neuropathies Unit:

The goal of this activity is to train regional primary healthcare providers on carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and other compressive neuropathies, including occupational and non-occupational risk factors. The course will cover best practices for the diagnosis, treatment and clinical management of CTS, and it will introduce prevention strategies using the industrial hygiene hierarchy of controls.

Series Overview

This mixed-media online series serves as an introduction to a variety of important occupational diseases. The individual 80-100 min units will be rolled out over the next year, and are organized around work-related diseases using public health scenarios and clinical cases.

NIHL Unit: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

The objectives of this unit are for students to be able to:

1. Describe the irreversible pathophysiological change associated with noise-induced hearing loss.
2. Describe the difference in causation between conductive and sensorineural hearing loss.
3. Describe the notable difference between an audiogram showing noise-induced hearing loss and one showing age-related hearing loss.
4. List three examples of controls to mitigate workplace noise that correspond to levels of the industrial hygiene “Hierarchy of Controls”.
5. Describe the importance of interprofessional collaboration in preventing and treating occupational noise induced hearing loss.

Occupational and environmental health exposures cause thousands of illnesses and injuries each year. This lecture series addresses the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of disease and injuries related to environmental and occupational exposures encountered by physicians and their colleagues in local, regional, and international settings.

On Demand

Webinar January 24, 2024 

Presenters:

• Catherine Karr, MD, PHD, MS Professor, Pediatrics, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology, University of Washington

• Barbara Morrissey, MS, Environmental Toxicology, Washington State Dept of Health

• Britt Millard-Hastings, MD. MPH, Resident Physician, University of Washington

OEM Grand Rounds: Air Pollution and Dementia

Presenter:

• Sindana Llango, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington

Occupational and environmental health exposures cause thousands of illnesses and injuries each year. This lecture series addresses the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of disease and injuries related to environmental and occupational exposures encountered by physicians and their colleagues in local, regional, and international settings.

On-Demand, Online Recording of Live Lecture from April 17, 2023

Presenter: Virtaj Singh, MD, Medical Director, Seattle Spine and Sports Medicine; Clinical Faculty, University of Washington, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

On-Demand, Online Recording of Live Lecture from November 1, 2023

Presenters:

• Marissa Baker, PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS), University of Washington

• Sophia Chiu, MD, MPH, Assistant Director, Occupational Medicine Rotation Program, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

• Scott Phillips, MD FACP FACMT FAACT, Executive Director/Medical Director, Washington Poison Center

OEM Grand Rounds: Musculoskeletal Pain From an Occupational & Environmental Medicine Perspective

Presenter:

• Irakli Soulakvelidze, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Washington
  of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Washington

Occupational and environmental health exposures cause thousands of illnesses and injuries each year. This lecture series addresses the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of disease and injuries related to environmental and occupational exposures encountered by physicians and their colleagues in local, regional, and international settings.

March 13, 2024, 6:00-8:00pm Pacific Time

Presenters:

• Coralynn Sack, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology, University of Washington

• Bonnie Ronish, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology, Occupational & Environmental Clinic at Harborview, University of Washington

Occupational and environmental health exposures cause thousands of illnesses and injuries each year. This lecture series addresses the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of disease and injuries related to environmental and occupational exposures encountered by physicians and their colleagues in local, regional, and international settings.

On-Demand, Online Recording of Live Lecture from March 20, 2023

Presenter: Jennifer M Zumsteg, MD, Inpatient - Rehabilitation Medicine (PM&R), Consultant, UW Medicine, Valley Medical Center

People, and how they feel about their work, can have a very significant impact on how they emotionally engage in the workplace each and every day. 

Today’s safety leaders need to understand stress, and emotions in the workplace in order to design a healthy work environment for the 21st century. This course will provide opportunities to examine, explore, and practice positive approaches for increasing individual and group levels of motivation, inclusivity and emotional effectiveness with the ultimate goal of fostering a safe work environment. 

Past participants have shared the importance of learning about psychological capital, hope, efficacy, resiliency and optimism, as a resource in themselves and in others, in order to prepare the people they lead to effectively cope with stress and to effectively manage their emotions. 

Participants will complete an online self-survey to discover what constitutes their positive psychological strengths and potential areas for development.

Course content will include an examination of the Total Worker Health® (TWH) five elements and concepts, an introduction to occupational health psychology and its relevance to safety and TWH, and a discussion of resources and strategies for integrating safety and occupational health into organizations. Interactive activities include large and small breakout group discussion, problem solving based on attendees’ organizational experience, homework and recap on published articles.

Course Requirement & Schedule: Please contact ce@uw.edu if you are unable to make any of the virtual Instructor-led sessions to work out accommodations.

• From March 31 to May 5, 2025, complete 16 hours self-paced modules; and,

• Attend three instructor-led, virtual sessions:

  • April 11, 2025 from 12pm to 3pm PST

  • April 21, 2025 from 12pm to 3pm PST

  • May 5, 2025 from 9am to 2pm PST

Participants take a self-rater survey to discover their strengths and opportunities for development into a more effective leader in operating in health and safety related functions and contexts.