Hazardous Waste
Hazardous Waste Academic Training is carried out within the Environmental
and Occupational Health Sciences Division in the University of Illinois
School of Public Health as a subspecialty of the industrial hygiene program.
A concentration in hazardous waste management requires courses in hazardous
materials management, occupational and environmental toxicology, environmental
chemistry, and participation in the 40-hour General Site Worker course
(Hazwoper) in addition to the general industrial hygiene program course
work requirements. The goals of this program are: (1) to develop hazardous
waste practitioners with as much practical experience as possible within
the limits of an academic environment; and (2) to provide a cadre of
hazardous waste specialists with research experience in occupational
and environmental health. In order to foster practical experience as
well as research activity, all trainees participate in at least one extended
field test. In the past, this field experience has included projects
at steel plants, railroad repair shops, petroleum refineries, printing
plants, and metal-working and electronic component facilities. Hazardous
waste trainees gain an understanding of the interdisciplinary nature
of problem solving in occupational and environmental health by participation
in occupational medicine clinics.
Iraida Rios, Academic Coordinator
Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
School of Public Health (MC 922)
University of Illinois at Chicago
2121 West Taylor Street
Chicago, Illinois 60612-7260
Phone: 312-996-8856
FAX: 312-413-9898
E-mail: irios@uic.edu
Peter Scheff, Industrial Hygiene Program Director
Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
School of Public Health (MC 922)
University of Illinois at Chicago
2121 West Taylor Street
Chicago, Illinois 60612-7260
Phone: 312-996-0800
FAX: 312-413-9898
E-mail: pscheff@uic.edu
Web Page: http://apr.sph.uic.edu/faculty_profile/facultyprofile.asp?i=pscheff
|
