Wastewater Basics: Terminology, Process and Sampling Techniques and Biological Health & Safety Awareness

Wastewater Basics: Terminology, Process and Sampling Techniques

This course will provide practitioners in the onsite wastewater industry with an understanding of the basics of wastewater treatment processes that occur in onsite systems. Topics include explanations of onsite wastewater and soil treatment process theory, terminology, treatment objectives and how different systems can achieve those objectives. The course also includes an overview of sampling techniques, including where, when, and how to sample, types of samples, and interpreting results.

Instructor: Anne Egan, R.J. Burnside & Associates

Biological Health & Safety Awareness

If your work requires you to inspect a septic tank or a leaching bed, pump a septic tank or to sample an advanced treatment system, you need to take this course! There are several activities that onsite wastewater professionals do every day that potentially exposes them to raw sewage or effluent. These exposures can have serious impacts on onsite workers themselves but also to unsuspecting individuals that they come into contact with during the course of their work day. This course will get you thinking very seriously about taking the necessary actions to protect your health, the health of your staff and of the public.

The workshop covers:

• the microbiology of wastewater hazards
• risk analysis for health & safety of workers
• considerations for risk mitigation, planning and personal protection
• impacts of pathogen transfer through cross contamination to coworkers, clients and public

The workshop also highlights the importance and value of pathogen removal in onsite wastewater treatment processes, but also the inherent risks working in the industry that must be addressed for occupational health and safety.

Instructor: Rick Esselment, ESSE Canada.

Registration deadline is April 24th.