/ en Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:30:55 -0500 Tue, 25 Mar 25 10:40:48 -0500 /education-events/working-health-care-ashe-academy-2025-chicago <p>Analyze the unique challenges you and your crew face when working on construction projects in a health care environment. Contribute to saving lives by reducing risks to patients, staff, crew and visitors. Learn how to reduce a facility’s construction costs by becoming aware of the intricacies and differences of health care environment in all phases of construction projects. Receive guidance necessary for you and your crew’s successful participation in health care projects.</p><p>Get ready for the next step in your career and prove your competencies by taking ASHE’s <a href="/education/certified-worker">Certified Health Care Physical Environment Worker exam</a> as a follow-up to this program.</p><p><strong>This program is part of ³¯Ñô³Ô¹ÏAcademy 2025. </strong></p> Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:40:48 -0500 Workplace Safety /education-events/working-health-care-certified-health-care-physical-environment-worker-education-exam-review-march-2025-live <p><a class="btn-primary btn" href="https://ams.aha.org/eweb/?ahabu=ASHE&webcode=eventinfo&Reg_evt_key=8802B3BC-9F93-486B-803C-B2D8371FB17E" target="_blank">Register</a></p><p>Protect patients, staff and visitors with your awareness of the construction challenges unique to a health care site.</p><p>Save lives, reduce risk and decrease costs. Gain insights on the unique challenges for construction projects taking place in a health care setting. Review code compliance requirements, infection prevention, fire and life safety and find out details on how your team’s actions can positively or negatively impact the safety of patients, staff and visitors.</p><h3><small>Take-Home Knowledge </small></h3><ul><li>Reduce risks to patients during construction.</li><li>Describe the fundamentals of life safety and interim life safety measures (ILSMs).</li><li>Prevent spread of infection and apply techniques for successful contamination.</li><li>Review equipment and systems unique to health care facilities and gain strategies on system shutdowns.</li><li>Respect and defend customer and patient expectations during construction projects.</li><li>Study concepts included on health care physical environment worker certification exam.</li></ul><p><a href="/education/certified-worker-exam-review" target="_blank"><strong>View complete program details >></strong></a></p> Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:40:43 -0600 Workplace Safety /education-events/working-health-care-certified-health-care-physical-environment-worker-education-exam-review-may-2025-live <p>Protect patients, staff and visitors with your awareness of the construction challenges unique to a health care site.</p><p><a href="https://ams.aha.org/eweb/?ahabu=ASHE&webcode=eventinfo&Reg_evt_key=BBDC9D3A-5B3C-437C-B340-04392B5D4349" target="_blank"><strong>Register</strong></a><br><br>Save lives, reduce risk and decrease costs. Gain insights on the unique challenges for construction projects taking place in a health care setting. Review code compliance requirements, infection prevention, fire and life safety and find out details on how your team’s actions can positively or negatively impact the safety of patients, staff and visitors.</p><h3><small class="sm">Take-home knowledge:</small></h3><ul><li>Reduce risks to patients during construction. </li><li>Describe the fundamentals of life safety and interim life safety measures (ILSMs). </li><li>Prevent spread of infection and apply techniques for successful contamination. </li><li>Review equipment and systems unique to health care facilities and gain strategies on system shutdowns. </li><li>Respect and defend customer and patient expectations during construction projects. </li><li>Study concepts included on health care physical environment worker certification exam. </li></ul><p><a href="/education/certified-worker-exam-review"><strong>Complete program information available here.</strong></a></p> Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:49:31 -0500 Workplace Safety /education-events/working-health-care-certified-health-care-physical-environment-worker-education-exam-review-feb-2025-chicago <h4>This event has been postponed. More information coming soon. </h4><p>Taking place in-person in Chicago! Protect patients, staff and visitors with your awareness of the construction challenges unique to a health care site.<br><br>Save lives, reduce risk and decrease costs. Gain insights on the unique challenges for construction projects taking place in a health care setting. Review code compliance requirements, infection prevention, fire and life safety and find out details on how your team’s actions can positively or negatively impact the safety of patients, staff and visitors.</p><h3><small class="sm">Take-home knowledge:</small></h3><ul><li>Reduce risks to patients during construction. </li><li>Describe the fundamentals of life safety and interim life safety measures (ILSMs). </li><li>Prevent spread of infection and apply techniques for successful contamination. </li><li>Review equipment and systems unique to health care facilities and gain strategies on system shutdowns. </li><li>Respect and defend customer and patient expectations during construction projects. </li><li>Study concepts included on health care physical environment worker certification exam. </li></ul><p><strong>Earn 6 CECs.</strong></p><h3><small class="sm">Speaker:</small></h3><p>Renée Jacobs, FASHE, CHFM, CHC</p><p><a href="/education/certified-worker-exam-review"><strong>Complete program information available here.</strong></a></p> Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:18:16 -0500 Workplace Safety /education-events/certified-health-care-physical-environment-worker-exam-review-october-2025 <p>This virtual, instructor-led program offers training for subcontractors, specialty contractors and those who are working in the health care environment. Participants will gain knowledge of the unique intricacies of working in a hospital or other health care facility, and can showcase their participation in this program to market their subcontractor or specialty contractor services.<br><br>Topics covered in this program include risks to patients during construction; fundamentals of Life Safety and Interim Life Safety Measures (ILSM); infection prevention; equipment and systems unique to health care facilities; and customer and patient expectations.</p><p><strong>Learning Outcomes:</strong></p><ul><li>Articulate factors that are unique to the construction and renovation of health care facilities and implement best practices based on those factors.</li><li>Implement the precautions required for construction in a health care facility to ensure safe and effective healing environments are maintained during a project.</li></ul><p>This course offer 4 CECs. Credit hours can be used toward the renewal of the Certified Health Care Facility Manager (CHFM) credential and the Certified Health Care Constructor (CHC) credential.<br><br><a href="/education/certified-worker-exam-review" target="_blank"><strong>View complete program details here.</strong></a></p> Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:09:34 -0500 Workplace Safety <p><strong>Speaker: Chuck Haling</strong></p><p>As deadlines approach for complying with OSHA's GHS-aligned Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom 2012), environmental health and safety (EH&S) professionals' questions are becoming tougher. To better prepare you, this session examines questions frequently asked by informed EH&S professionals regarding OSHA's adoption of GHS, the resulting changes to requirements for labels and safety data sheets (SDSs), OSHA's HazCom 2012 phased-in compliance deadlines, chemical classification, SDS authoring, and other critical topics.</p><p><strong>Learning Outcomes:</strong></p><ol><li>Interpret complex compliance issues related to HazCom 2012 and recognize major changes to the required labels and SDSs.</li><li>Describe how changes to compliance requirements will affect worker training.<br> </li></ol><div id="youtube"><div class="video-container"></div></div><p> </p> Sun, 01 Dec 2013 18:00:00 -0600 Workplace Safety