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Our IDL Technical Training Center provides contemporary training to professionals throughout the United States.  We provide you with the training necessary to ensure your customers are getting the most up-to-date information.  We will walk you through the process of sample collection, analysis, result interpretation, and report writing for your customers

Our courses have been accepted for continuing education units (CEUs) and certification maintenance (CM points) by various organizations on an individual request basis.  The IDL Technical Training classes provide a syllabus, resumes for each course, and its instructors so that students may request credits from their specific professional organization.  The IDL Technical Training Center and U.S. Micro-Solutions, Inc. are independent of any professional organization and do not request CEU or CM on behalf of students.

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Baseline Microbial Survey Fundamental
7 Contact Hours
$195.00/attendee
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This course qualifies for American Council for Accredited Certification (ACAC) Renewal Credits - 7 CRCs


This one-day course offers attendees the fundamental knowledge required to complete a cursory investigation of residential properties where mould and water problems are suspected.  The course includes a microbiology primer followed by an explanation of practical field techniques and methods of observation.  Students are challenged to interpret laboratory data with oversight by a professional field scientist.  The course includes a laboratory and sampling equipment practicum where attendees learn when, where and how to collect different types of samples.  A primary section on report-writing is also offered.  Fee includes materials, continental breakfast and lunch.

Instructors:

Herb Layman, BS, SM, CIEC, Technical Manager of U.S. Micro-Solutions, Inc.
John Rindy, MPH, Industrial Hygienist, Thiel College



Advanced Indoor Environmental Quality
13 Contact Hours
$400.00/attendee
Next Course:  August 12-13, 2010

This course qualifies for American Council for Accredited Certification (ACAC) Renewal Credits - 13 CRCs


This is a two-day course offered by the IDL Technical Training Center.  It is appropriate for professionals who have completed the Baseline Microbial Survey Fundamentals course or anyone who has worked in industrial hygiene, safety or environmental science in the past.  This course offers a more academic-intensive study of microbiology, building science and thermodynamics. Issues of residential and commercial indoor air quality surveys are covered, as well as unique indoor air challenges in each.  This course includes a field survey and field sampling and information on sample analysis.  Over two and a half contact hours are dedicated to sample interpretation and determination of fungal ecology.  This course offer a more intensive report-writing segment.  Fee includes material, continental breakfast and lunch each day.

Course Objectives:
  • Fundamentals of Microbiology and Health Effects
  • Off-Site Sampling Field Trip
  • Analysis of Samples
  • Lab Results - An Interpretive Review
  • Thermodynamics
  • Other IAQ Concerns
  • HVAC and Exposure Pathways - Movement of Matters
  • Review of Lab and Field Techniques
  • Issues in Residential Environmental Quality Surveys
  • Commercial Systems & Unusual Phenomena
  • Components of Report Writing

Instructors:

Herb Layman, BS, SM, CIEC, Technical Manager of U.S. Micro-Solutions, Inc.
John Rindy, MPH, Industrial Hygienist, Thiel College

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Legionnaires' Disease - A Current Update

4 Hour Session (8:30 am - 12:30 pm)
$95.00/attendee
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No pre-requisite.  This course is specially tailored for plant management personnel, infection control practitioners, health and safety specialist in hospitals, and other medical facilities.  Legionella pneumophila and other Legionella spp. are persistent, common bacterial contaminants in any system or device with standing water.  This course discusses methods for monitoring and measuring for Legionella contamination.  The course includes discussion of the history of bacterium, sampling sites, sampling frequency and techniques, decontamination procedures, and outbreak crisis management. 



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