2011 Certification Information

Documentation

You can now access your AIHce continuing education records online – any time, from anywhere!

Downloadable AIHA educational transcripts allow you to:

• Review educational credits (CM, COC, CEU points) awarded by AIHA/AIHce
• Update and add new course records from other organizations to your transcript for easy record keeping
• Track training and professional development contact hours
• Print a complete history as often as you like

AIHA educational transcripts:

• Supply AIHce PDC certification information
• List AIHce attendance information for weekday technical sessions
• Do not track instruction and presentation points for authors, speakers, and instructors unless they are self-entered
• Allow 45 days from course completion/attendance for certification information to appear on your educational transcript

AIHA maintains attendance records for seven years. Attendees are responsible for retaining all documentation for future reference and/or certification audits. AIHA charges a $50 replacement fee for all documentation (prior to 2010) verifying attendance. For complete information, visit www.aiha.org/CMReplacement

Attendance and participation is required to earn certification points. Partial credits will not be awarded. Questions may be directed to Stacey Talbot, education manager, AIHA.

The American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH) has approved CM points for AIHce 2011 as follows:

•  Weekend PDCs and symposium — see individual descriptions for CM points
•  Weekday technical sessions, science symposium, and tours — maximum 4.5 CM points:
  • Daytime: 0.5 CM point per half day
  • Wednesday evening: 0.5 CM point
•  PDC instructors — 0.33 CM point per hour of instruction
• Poster Presenter — 1.0 CM point
• Technical sessions (CR, RT, PO, and PS):
  • Speakers: 1 CM point for presentation time > 20 minutes
  • Presentation authors (nonspeaker): 0.5 CM point
  • Arrangers receives 0.5 CM pt in Category 7
  • Moderators do not receive CM points
  • Monitors do not receive CM Points

CM Approval Numbers for AIHce and individual PDCs will be listed on registrant’s educational transcripts.

IH Technical or Professional Committee service is awarded CM points in Category 2. There is a maximum of 5 CM pts per 5 year CM cycle. Participation receives:

•  1 CM point/year for the Chair
•  0.5 CM point/year for a committee member.

For proof of attendance ABIH will accept:

• PDCs:
  • AIHA Educational Transcript

• General, technical sessions, science symposium, and tours:
  • AIHA Educational Transcript
  • Evidence of physical presence at AIHce (for example, approved expense report; hotel, meal, or parking receipts; ABIH CM Attendance Verification Form)
• Authors, PDC instructors, and technical session speakers — information listed in:
  • The AIHce Advance Program
  • The AIHce Final Program
  • On the AIHce 2011 website

Questions regarding CIH certification maintenance should be directed to ABIH at (517) 321-2638.

The Registration Maintenance (RM) Committee of the Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists (CRBOH) has awarded:

• 1.0 RM point per conference day
• 1.0 RM point for each full-day PDC
• 0.5 RM point per half-day PDC

Registrants claiming any RM points must provide proof of attendance.

AIHA is approved by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) to award CEUs to participants who successfully complete courses. In obtaining this approval, AIHA has demonstrated that it complies with the American National Standards Institute ANSI/IACET 1-2007 standards, an internationally recognized set of standards for good practice.

As a result of its authorized provider membership status, AIHA is authorized to offer IACET CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET 1-2007 standard. For point values, see individual PDC and symposium descriptions.

Note, CEUs are not awarded for attending the general conference (May 16-19).

AIHA is authorized by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) to issue COC points in conjunction with the CSP certification. For point values, see individual PDC and symposium descriptions.

Note, COCs are not awarded for attending the general conference (May 16-19).

BCRSP
The Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals has awarded 2.0 certification maintenance points (CMP) for attending the full conference (May 16-19, 2011).