Continuing Education Spotlight
November 2024
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Welcome to our November Spotlight!
This month, we highlight artificial intelligence and its expanding use in the workplace. Explore the latest publications and resources to ensure that the promise of these new AI technologies results in benefit, not harm, to workers.
Learn about approaches to these challenges – it requires risk management skills, leadership, and transparency. Check out our upcoming courses and events, designed to equip you with cutting-edge skills for emerging technologies and essential occupational health and safety expertise.
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New DEOHS interim chair Lianne Sheppard looks to build community and support faculty as she steps into new role. Learn about her background and future plans below.
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Mr. Carpenter has been an instructor for a variety of safety, health & environmental courses at the University of Washington Region X Department of Environmental
and Occupational Health Sciences
for over 20 years. He is also an instructor for many associations and organizations throughout the Greater Puget Sound Region, making it his goal to deliver the
highest quality of training.
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When asked what inspired him to teach health and safety, Rhett shared:
"My parents were both well known, stand out teachers, as well as successful coaches for their entire career. Since childhood, I was able to observe them in action and see many people that they positively impacted along the way."
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Taylor is from Nampa, Idaho, and has spent her career developing and implementing Safety and Health programs in accordance with OSHA, providing training, site audits, and hazard assessments and abatement. She is a dually authorized 500/501 trainer and Construction Safety and Health Specialist, and has recently opened Bowman Safety Consulting LLC.
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When asked what she has gained from this program, Taylor shared:
"In 2022 I became a dually authorized 500 and 501 outreach trainer, and finally achieved a Construction Safety and Health Specialist certificate in 2023. The institute has unmatched instructors who are eager to share their knowledge at multiple levels, in class and outside in day to day life."
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AI-generated characterization of landscape risk for disease emergence Washington
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Learn more about how AI is being used to create more detailed and up-to-date risk maps for disease outbreak in Washington, which could expand to help the prediction of future global pandemics.
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Exploring Approaches to Keep an
AI-Enabled Workplace Safe
for Workers
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Read this blog to understand the growing role of AI in the workplace, and how it may increase safety and productivity while also presenting new risks that must be identified to protect workers' health.
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Upcoming Continuing Education Courses
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OSHA #2045 Machinery and Machine Guarding Standards
Nov. 18 - 21, 2024 | Seattle, WA
Join us in learning about various types of common machinery, machine safe guards, and related OSHA regulations and procedures, as well as the hazards associated with various types of machinery and the determination of proper machine safe guards.
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OEM Grand Rounds: Musculoskeletal Pain From an Occupational & Environmental Medicine Perspective
Nov. 20, 2024 | Online Webinar
Join this live webinar to hear Irakli Soulakvelidze, a clinical professor at the University of Washington, speak about musculoskeletal pain from an occupational and environmental medicine perspective.
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OSHA #510 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry
Dec. 02 - 05, 2024 | Seattle, WA
Join this course to learn about OSHA Standards, policies, and procedures in the construction industry. Topics include scope and application of the OSHA Construction Standards, construction safety and health principles, and special emphasis on those areas in construction which are most hazardous.
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OSHA #521 OSHA Guide to Industrial Hygiene
Dec. 02 - 05, 2024 | Portland, OR
Join this course to gain insight on industrial hygiene practices and related OSHA regulations and procedures. Course topics include recognition, evaluation, and control of chemical, physical, biological and ergonomic hazards, and more.
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Transformational Leadership Development
Dec. 03, Dec. 10, Dec. 17, 2024 | 3pm - 5:30pm PT | Online, Instructor Led
Strengthen your ability to lead change and compliance by increasing your effectiveness as a health and safety expert. Join this course to learn about the three positive styles of leading others and the four components of each style, as well as explore your thinking, feelings, and actions related to the different leadership capabilities.
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Transformational Leadership Development
Dec. 06, 2024 | Seattle, WA
Lead more effectively and cultivate an environment where safety is a priority. In this course, participants have the opportunity to explore thinking, feelings, and actions related to authentic, transactional, and transformational leadership capabilities.
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OSHA #2255 Principles of Ergonomics
Dec. 09 - 11, 2024 | Portland, OR
Join this course to learn about the use of ergonomic principles to recognize, evaluate, and control workplace conditions that cause or contribute to musculoskeletal and nerve disorders.
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Advancing Leadership & Communication for Change Management
Jan. 28, Feb. 4, Feb. 11, 2025 | 3pm - 5:30pm PT | Online, Instructor Led
Join this course to learn how evidence-based models, frameworks, and practical experience come together to develop and foster change management practices as a leader, supervisor, and individual.
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Collaboration and Partnerships
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Mid-Oregon Construction Safety Summit
Attend this conference for training designed for residential, commercial, and industrial construction workers. There are now three sessions available in Spanish, one taught by UW OSCHE Jaime Sr. Viramontes on the 28th.
Bend, OR
Jan. 27 - 28, 2025
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In honor of Rick Gleason's retirement, a DEOHS Rick Gleason Endowed Program Support Fund has been created to provide broad-based support to honor students in the department – a generous gift that recognizes Rick’s lifelong contributions at the University of WA.
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Occupational Safety and Health Continuing Education
Phone: (800) 326-7568
E-mail: ce@uw.edu
Web: oshce.uw.edu
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