Call for Virtual and/or Hybrid Courses
The Continuing Challenge
The Continuing Challenge
The Continuing Challenge Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Workshop committee extends its greetings to you and hopes that you, your families, colleagues, friends, and communities are as well as can be in these unsettled times.
The Committee made the unpleasant decision in 2020, and now 2021, to not hold the traditional Continuing Challenge workshop in-person in the best health interests of our greater HazMat community.
The cancellation of the in-person Continuing Challenge, and other training, means there is a void in accessing information and developing and maintaining competencies.
To help fill that void the Committee is considering providing the Annual Workshop in a series of periodic training sessions over the coming year. This year’s Workshop proposes to be comprised of live virtual meetings and classes, a library of pre-recorded trainings, and possibly a handful of “hybrid” classes combining remote instruction and where students and instructors can safely participate in various locations for demonstrations or competency verification. Delivering Workshop sessions over months and holding a concentrated number of courses during our traditional Labor Day week workshop schedule (September 7-10, 2021) allows us to offer the best possible Hazardous Materials training to the community we serve until we can meet again in person.
That is where you come into the picture. Everyone is suffering from Zoom-fatigue. Nonetheless, we are looking to conduct remote and/or hybrid training sessions in keeping with the Continuing Challenge’s philosophy of “edutainment.”
Many options exist:
As faculty, we are asking you:
Please reply by Tuesday, March 23 to [email protected] .
Please fill out the form on the right and click Submit at the bottom, even if you do not want to submit a class.
Otherwise please contact Paul Penn ([email protected] 916-718-0751) or Jim McCall ([email protected] 916-521-9784)
Sincerely,
Dennis Smith
Committee Chair and IC