Continuing Education—“The Action Level”^®

Access “The Action Level”^® Questions online at: http://www.acgih.org/products/joeh/alquestions.htm

Access “The Action Level”^® Answers online at: http://www.acgih.org/products/joeh/alanswers.htm

Access “The Action Level”^® Registration Form online at: https://www.acgih.org/products/joeh/alregfrm.htm.

“The Action Level,”^® a self-study, continuing education program, provides a convenient and interesting opportunity for individuals to expand their knowledge in relevant areas of industrial hygiene, as well as occupational and environmental safety and health. The program is approved by both the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, and the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, which award Certification Maintenance (CM) points and Continuance of Certification (COC) points, respectively, for successful participation.

Participants must read each issue of the Journal, answer “The Action Level”^® questions, and return the completed answer sheet at the end of that issue's “The Action Level”^® column. To earn the designated CM or COC credit, a score of 70 percent or better is required within a 12-month period. Certified Industrial Hygienists and Certified Associate Industrial Hygienists may earn 2 points per year. Certified Safety Professionals may earn 1.2 points per year.

Enrollment is possible each month, but points are awarded only four times each year—in March, June, September, and December—to participants who score an average of 70% or better within each 3-month period. If you register in October 2006, you will recieve 0.5 CM point and/or 0.3 COC point after you have completed answers sheets for October, November, and December, 2006, and scored a 70 percent or better average on them (only in your first quarter of enrollment, if enrolling in the middle of the quarter, will you be permitted to submit answer sheets for two months and receive full credit; three answer sheets are required for all other quarters). In the next quarter, you'll receive 0.5 CM points and/or 0.3 COC points after satisfactorily completing answer sheets for the January, February, and March 2007 issues, and so on.

To enroll, complete the registration form and the answer sheet at the end of this “The Action Level”^® column. The cost is $179 (ACGIH^®/AIHA members)/$199 (nonmembers) for one year. Nonmembers are encouraged to become members to take advantage of the 10-percent member discount. For more information regarding ACGIH^® membership, call 513-742-2020, or apply online at www.acgih.org/members/memberform.htm.

Checks must be in U.S. currency, drawn on a U.S. bank, and payable to ACGIH^®. We also accept AmEx, MasterCard, Discover, and Visa.

This continuing education program fee is separate from the Journal subscription cost. The fee covers administration costs, and is nonrefundable.

Submissions must be received by the date listed on each answer sheet.