May 19-21, 2008 in Greenville
October 1-3, 2008 in Winston-Salem
 A NC Environmental Health
State of Practice (SOP) Committee Course
Overview
This required workshop
is for both the newest person needing to learn about how to apply North Carolina environmental health
law and the long-time supervisor and specialist who needs an update on revised laws
and has not attended this workshop in the past five years. This highly
successful program has provided the basic legal background for more than 1,190
environmental health specialists since first offered in 1981. This workshop is
rewritten and updated each year to include the most current of the
ever-changing North Carolina statutes, rules and
regulations pertaining to the environment and your job. Interns must have a
minimum of one year's experience on the job (after completing intern training)
to attend this course.
The North Carolina
Legislature continues to make changes to state environmental laws each year. In
addition, the North Carolina Health Services Commission continues to make
rulings and consider revisions that may directly affect your day-to-day work.
If it has been more than five years since you last attended Environmental
Health Law, then it's time for you to catch up on what's happening.
The 200-page custom
course manual will be an important addition to your reference shelf. this
manual contains the latest revisions based on the most recent North Carolina statutes, regulations
and rulings. Participants will focus on the Environmental Health Services
Section programs and their working relationship to local health department
environmental programs. You will have the rare opportunity to frankly discuss
important legal interpretations that are often required in the day-to-day
dealings with our citizens. You'll also learn the proper procedures for
successfully working with the North Carolina Attorney General's Office and the
Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) during client disputes.
The workshop will
include the following areas:
- Administrative enforcement, including
general and specific case studies.
- Administrative procedures through permits,
certificates, inspections, citations, and denials.
- Appeals and various forms of
implementation.
- Administrative and judicial use of
evidence.
- Judicial enforcement describing federal as
well as state court systems and various levels of enforcement.
- Legal remedies and the role of the district
attorney, health department and specialists.
- Injunctions and their use.
- The news media and health law.
- Courtroom procedure and the specialist as
expert and lay witness.
- Your own rights and responsibilities.
- Practical common law and statutory powers.
- Limitations on powers.
- Administrative Hearings Office and hearings
procedures.
- Self-protection in enforcement, including
assault and libel.
- Your duties, liabilities and defenses.
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Objectives
The purpose of this
workshop is to teach participants how the system of North Carolina health laws, rules and
regulations can support and guide them in their daily work routine. Major
concentration will be placed on the practical use and demystifying of North Carolina health law for application
by specialists on their job.
Special features in this
program include:
- Changes in DEM vs. DEH programs and how
these may affect your existing policies and procedures.
- A discussion of the working relationships
between the various levels of local county hierarchy and how it affects
decisions made in your own environmental program.
- The local county perspective on an actual
hearings process; examining how it really works in the field and in the
hearing room.
At the end of this
program, participants will be able to:
- Identify major problems in legal procedure
encountered by specialists.
- Describe key factors in resolving citizen
and EHS disputes.
- Recognize and identify at least two usable
administrative tools for solving health professional versus client
problems.
- Describe the process for effective and
legal inspections.
- Prepare appropriately for both formal and
informal hearings using good rules of evidence.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use of
appropriate legal terminology.
- Identify typical legal problems, common
legal errors, and the legal basis for enforcement of the EHS code.
- Identify the legal considerations in the
preparation of evidence for use in administrative and judicial
proceedings.
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Audience
Environmental Health Law
is a required course for all environmental health specialists. However, you
must have a minimum of one (1) year experience on the job after completing
intern training to attend this course. It is also recommended that you attend
if it has been more than five years since you last took the course.
This program has been
designed for North Carolina environmental health
specialists and interns who must make practical decisions concerning local
health conditions as well as correctly administer and enforce the application
of North
Carolina health laws and regulations. Supervisors or
administrators who have consulting and decision-making responsibilities with
specialists will also benefit from attending this program.
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Schedule and Location
Registration (with
coffee available) will begin at 8:00 a.m. day one. The program
will begin at 8:25 a.m. and adjourn at 4:45
p.m.
day one, and runs from 8:25 a.m. to 5:00
p.m.
days two and three. Health law is becoming more and more complex, and the
instructors need as much training time as possible during this three-day
course. Your time is equally as valuable. Therefore all participants are
expected to follow the scheduled start times.
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CE Credit
Attendance
at this program will provide 19 to 20 instructional clock hours of required
continuing education. Participants must complete at least 80% of the program to
receive any hours of credit. In addition, participants must successfully
complete the post-test.
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Sponsors
- North Carolina Environmental Health State of Practice
Committee
- School of Government, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- South East Area Health Education Center
- Charlotte Area Health Education Center
- Environmental Health Section, North Carolina Public Health
Association
- NC Institute for Public Health, School
of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Environmental Health Services Section, NC
Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources
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Public Health Competencies
This course addresses the following public health competencies:
Essential Services 1k, 3a, 6a, 6b, 6d, 6e, 8d
More
information on the public health competencies.
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Registration
Registration fees include all course materials for each
participant, as well as two daily breaks. Meals are all on your own and not
included.
Fees:
- $125 for first participant from
a public agency
- $99 per additional participant
from the same agency
- $250 for participants with
private industry, for-profit organizations
Register online, fax
919-966-5692; phone 919-966-4032
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