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Applied Chemistry for EHS Professionals™

One of the only environmental chemistry courses designed specifically for EHS compliance professionals rather than laboratory analysts or college students. Delivering a powerful working knowledge of applied chemistry for more than 20 years. No chemistry background required.

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Wayne B.
Wayne B. EHS Director, Chemist
I wish I had taken this course earlier in my career.
Jim W.
Jim W. EHS Compliance Specialist, Power Generation and Distribution
Understanding laboratory reports at a new level now. Thanks.
Kevin B.
Kevin B. Consultant, Environmental Chemistry
Thanks for making chemistry interesting again!

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Applied Chemistry for EHS Professionals™ is offered most often at our training facility in the Annapolis (MD) historic district and online via live virtual attendance. All sessions run three days and the course fee is $1,625, with discounts available for early registration, groups of three or more, government employees, students, and veterans. Corporate partnership discounts are also available. 

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Course Description

Applied Chemistry for EHS Professionals™ has been delivering a powerful and practical understanding of chemistry for more than 20 years. This course has been refined and updated as a single three-day course to meet the needs of today’s EHS professionals. Rest assured, no background in chemistry is required!

Stronger understanding of chemistry allows EHS professionals to better understand nearly all aspects of their work, including selecting appropriate laboratory analysis and interpreting results, site characterization, toxicology, monitoring data, regulatory and permit limits, and environmental and human health hazards. You will be better prepared to predict and understand fate and transport of chemicals in environmental media, select sampling and monitoring strategies, evaluate laboratory analytical data, diagnose unexpected results, and make more informed EHS decisions.

Aarcher Institute presenters draw on many years of applied, practical environmental chemistry experience to provide straightforward, understandable explanations of the chemical processes and issues that affect important environmental compliance management considerations. Case studies and real-world examples are used throughout.

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Topics Covered

Applied Chemistry for EHS Professionals™ covers the chemistry concepts most relevant to environmental compliance work, from chemical measurements and physical properties through sampling, analysis, and statistics for EHS professionals.

  • Chemical Measurements (Both U.S. and SI)
  • Physical and Chemical Properties
  • Gas Laws, Henry's Law, etc.
  • Organic Compound Nomenclature
  • Transformations/Reactions of Organic Substances
  • Metal Fate and Transport
  • Reactions/Reactivity in Inorganic Substances
  • Nuclear Chemistry/Radioactivity
  • Special Chemicals and Processes (Organic, Inorganic, Metals)
  • Waste Treatment Processes
  • Sampling Techniques, Quality, and Common Errors
  • Analysis Techniques (eg., SW846, etc.)
  • Laboratory Data Quality
  • Statistics for EHS Professionals

You Will Receive

Every participant leaves the Applied Chemistry for EHS Professionals™ course with the chemistry knowledge necessary to succeed as an EHS professional. You will return with a course binder, useful references, example documents and other tools, presenter contact information for follow-up questions, and your notes from the presentations and discussions.

book

Printed Materials

Binder of presentation materials for later reference

laptop

Reference Materials

Electronic copies of key reference materials

notebook

Notes

Your notes from class discussions

certificate

Printed Certificate

Certificate of accomplishment to display and share

Presenters

All Aarcher Institute presenters are exclusive and present Aarcher Institute proprietary course content.

Applied Chemistry for EHS Professionals™ is presented by a presenter with over 35 years of environmental engineering, consulting, and site remediation experience, for whom chemistry was an integral aspect of his career. The presenter draws on extensive applied chemistry experience to provide straightforward, understandable explanations relevant to EHS work.

Rick Stanford

Rick Stanford

P.E., CHMM
Rick Stanford has over 35 years of environmental engineering, consulting and site remediation experience. Chemistry was an integral aspect of his work. Mr. Stanford’s career started with the U.S. EPA where he oversaw the development of water quality criteria based on toxicological properties of pollutants and was a participant in establishing the Contract Laboratory Program in the Office of Hazardous Waste and Emergency Response.  Later, Mr. Stanford used his knowledge of chemistry to perform both human health and environmental risk assessments in support of Superfund and RCRA actions.  Those projects involved evaluating toxicological aspects of pollutants as well as performing fate and transport modeling.  He also used his understanding of chemistry and chemical principles to evaluate and apply innovative approaches to the cleanup of hazardous waste sites.  During this time Mr. Stanford was a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) at the Masters Level. More recently, Mr. Stanford obtained a Virginia Postgraduate Teaching License and has, for the past seven years, taught pre-AP Chemistry and Chemistry in Prince William County (VA) public schools and has been an adjunct instructor of Environmental Science at Shenandoah University. Mr. Stanford is a registered professional engineer (PE) and holds a Marine Science degree from the University of West Florida, an Environmental Engineering masters degree from the University of Florida, and an Engineering and Applied Physics masters degree from Harvard University.
Rick Stanford

Rick Stanford

P.E., CHMM
Rick Stanford has over 35 years of environmental engineering, consulting and site remediation experience. Chemistry was an integral aspect of his work. Mr. Stanford’s career started with the U.S. EPA where he oversaw the development of water quality criteria based on toxicological properties of pollutants and was a participant in establishing the Contract Laboratory Program in the Office of Hazardous Waste and Emergency Response.  Later, Mr. Stanford used his knowledge of chemistry to perform both human health and environmental risk assessments in support of Superfund and RCRA actions.  Those projects involved evaluating toxicological aspects of pollutants as well as performing fate and transport modeling.  He also used his understanding of chemistry and chemical principles to evaluate and apply innovative approaches to the cleanup of hazardous waste sites.  During this time Mr. Stanford was a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) at the Masters Level. More recently, Mr. Stanford obtained a Virginia Postgraduate Teaching License and has, for the past seven years, taught pre-AP Chemistry and Chemistry in Prince William County (VA) public schools and has been an adjunct instructor of Environmental Science at Shenandoah University. Mr. Stanford is a registered professional engineer (PE) and holds a Marine Science degree from the University of West Florida, an Environmental Engineering masters degree from the University of Florida, and an Engineering and Applied Physics masters degree from Harvard University.

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