Georgia Southern University offers on-line training for septic tank contractors (details)

Georgia Southern University has launched three on-line courses to meet the re-certification and training needs of core personnel in ensuring public health. Environmental Health District personnel and septic tank installers may take any of the University's On-Site Sewage (OSS) training for re-certification credit hours.

For $75 per course, participants can avoid the time and expense of travel, hotel and food bills, as well as loss of work time that comes from face-to-face training. Instead, participants have one full month from the date of payment to access the course repeatedly on-line and take the 20-question final exam as often as they wish.

Georgia's septic tank contractors have until February 28 to complete four to eight hours of re-certification training. The state's environmental health workers have similar responsibilities for regular update training. The three on-line OSS classes each provide one or two hours of training and may be taken in any order.

May seminar will focus on background and reference checks(details)

Business managers and human resource personnel are invited to attend a seminar in Brunswick entitled "Best Practices in Running Background and Reference Checks."
The seminar will be held on Tuesday, May 13, from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at Coastal Georgia Community College.

Part of the Legal Awareness in the Workplace (LAW) series sponsored by Georgia Southern University, the seminar will be cover the Equal Employment Opportunity anti-discrimination law and how it affects a company's pre-hire and post-employment background checks and investigations. The Fair Credit Reporting Act will also be reviewed.

The fee of $69 per person will be reduced to $59 for groups of three or more people from the same firm. There is also a discount for people registering for three or more seminars in the series. Each seminar provides 1.5 recertification credit hours for individuals with (Senior) Professional in Human Resources (PHR/SPHR) certification.

To register, call Georgia Southern University's Continuing Education Center at (912) 681-5551 or visit http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/lawseminar.html.

Georgia Southern offers OSHA training in June( details)

Georgia Southern University is providing industrial managers and safety personnel with an opportunity to learn the pro-active steps necessary to be in compliance with national safety regulations and statutes.

"OSHA Approved Training" is a 32-hour short course that will be offered at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah from Tuesday, June 3, through Friday, June 6. The course will provide an in-depth review of General Industry Standard 1910, which covers safety and health regulations for most workplaces and industries.

Led by James Shelburn, an approved Occupational Safety and Health Administration instructor, the course covers practical exercises about the 1910 standards, as well as machine guarding, personal protective equipment, emergency exit routes, hazard identification and abatement, and recordkeeping requirements.

The fee for the course is $995 per person, which includes a continental breakfast and lunch on all four days. To register or for more information, visit http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/OSHATraining.html or call (912) 681-5551.