Estimated Contact Time: 3 hours
Credits:
Program Description: Credits:
- NGWA: 0.3 CEU (1 CEU = 10 hours)
- Per state: Varies, see specific state recognition in description
- Continuing Education FAQs
This NGWA online, on-demand certificate program, prepared by Denis Crayon, CHST, and Roger E. Renner, MGWC, NGWAF, addresses ways to improve safety in the workplace.
Historically there are three major loss areas in the groundwater industry:
- Materials handling
- Slips, trips, and falls
- Electrocution/electrical hazards.
- Inform employees of the hazards
- Increase awareness of the hazards
- Provide guidance on immediate actions to mitigate threats to safety.
- Field technicians
- Geothermal contractors
- Pump installation contractors
- Safety officers
- Site managers
- Water well drilling contractors
- Water well suppliers.
State Recognition:
- Georgia Water Well Standards Advisory Council — 3 hours
- Iowa Department of Natural Resources — 2 CEUs for well driller and pump installer
- Louisiana Department of Natural Resources — 3 credit hours
- Maryland State Board of Well Drillers — 3 credit hours
- Minnesota Department of Health — 3 contact hours
- Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality — 3 hours
- Nevada Division of Water Resources — .75 CEUs
- New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection — 3 safety CEPs (in effect through 03-31-2023)
- North Dakota State Water Commission — 3 CECs
- Ohio Department of Health — 3 CE hours
- Oklahoma Water Resources Board — 3 CEUs
- Oregon Water Resources Department — 3 CECs (in effect through January 2023)
- South Carolina Environmental Certification Board — 3 hours
- Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation — 3 hours
- Washington Department of Ecology — 1.5 CEUs
- Wyoming State Engineer’s Office — 3 CPCs