COURSE TITLE

AHERA Refresher for Asbestos Inspectors and Management Planners

This course meets the AHERA annual retraining requirement for individuals who have already taken Building Inspection for Asbestos or Building Inspection and Management Planning for Asbestos. The morning session— AHERA Refresher Course for Asbestos Inspectors— can be taken separately as a half-day course. Both sessions cover EPA required topics, including a review of regulations, new legislation, and topics from the original course.

Every year we cover new special topics. The topics often involve interesting case studies that demonstrate particular problems or concerns in the industry. For example, we recently looked at what happened when an asbestos release contaminated an entire San Francisco neighborhood. This year we're focusing on the problems encountered by a school where asbestos was inadvertently disturbed in many classrooms. Within the context of these case studies we discuss different methods of hazard assessment and sampling and appropriate response options.

Many other training providers try to use the course materials we wrote for this course, because they know our materials are the best. No other school even comes close to matching the number and quality of our instructors. The best materials and the best instructors make for the best value in asbestos training.

To use these courses for AHERA reaccreditation purposes, enrollees must bring the original certificate from their most recent EPA-approved inspector and/or management planner training course.

Advance Enrollment Required

Class size is limited. You must enroll early. Once we receive your enrollment, we will mail you important information including directions, parking information, and recommended reading assignments for completion prior to the course. To receive this information, you must enroll more than two weeks before the course. If you enroll within two weeks prior to the course, you can use our Web site at www.coehce.org or call our office at (510) 643-7277 for directions and parking information. When you receive this information, please verify that you are correctly enrolled in the appropriate course and on the correct date. To check on your enrollment, you may call the COEH CE office at (510) 643-7277.

Payment must be secured at the time of enrollment in the form of credit card, check, or purchase order. Space cannot be reserved in a class without payment.

Prerequisite

AHERA accreditation as a Building Inspector/Management Planner (or within one year of expiration date).

COURSE DIRECTOR

Tom Wangerin, MS, is the owner of Wangerin Environmental, an environmental training and consulting firm specializing in asbestos and lead issues. Tom is a Cal/OSHA-certified asbestos consultant and a CDPH-certified lead paint Inspector, Assessor, and Project Monitor and is the Director of the UC Berkeley COEH Asbestos and Lead Paint training program. He has a great deal of experience in asbestos and lead inspections and abatement project oversight. He is recognized nationally as an expert in asbestos and lead paint regulations as well as for the program he runs at UC Berkeley.

Guest instructors may be used depending on the topics being discussed.

CREDIT

ABIH credit: 1.0 IH CM point.

Course Schedule

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