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lydiama
01-23-2009, 01:18 PM
This is the UBC SOEH risk communication seminar that immediately precedes the AIHA BC Yukon Annual General Meeting (March 11, 2009 in Vancouver BC - http://www.aihabc.org/meetings-a-events/aihabc-events/2009-agm.html)

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Alerting, Reassuring, Guiding: Three Risk Communication Toolkits for Environmental Health & Safety Professionals

March 9-10, 2009
Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside
1133 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC

SPEAKERS: Peter M. Sandman, PhD and Jody Lanard, MD

Presented by the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Major Sponsors: BC Centre for Disease Control; BC Ministry of Health Services; BC Transmission Corporation; Justice Institute of British Columbia; UBC Centre for Health & Environment Research

Partner Sponsors: BC Environmental & Occupational Health Research Network; WorkSafeBC

Associate Sponsors: National Public Relations; Teck; Vancouver Coastal Health

and AIHA BC-Yukon Local Section

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Course brochure and registration form: http://www.soeh.ubc.ca/Continuing_Education/default.stm

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Join us in Vancouver BC to hear two of the world's preeminent risk communications experts address issues of utmost importance to environmental health and safety professionals. In this two-day interactive workshop, Drs. Peter M. Sandman and Jody Lanard will take the audience through the spectrum of risk communication challenges: warning people about serious risks they are ignoring, reassuring them about small risks they are worried about, and guiding them through serious risks they are rightly worried about. More about the speakers here: http://www.psandman.com.

This workshop will allow participants to apply the three risk communication paradigms to local, provincial or national risk issues and to learn risk communication strategies to cope with each of these paradigms.

Not just for EH&S professionals! Those who shall benefit from this training include: environmental and occupational health and safety professionals; industrial hygienists; public health officials; environmental health officers; policymakers, managers, regulators and communications staff from government, public safety and public health agencies at local, provincial and federal levels of government; risk managers; public affairs managers; communications professionals; physicians and nurse practitioners; health promotion managers; public relations professionals; and anyone whose job requires trying to alert people to risks they are ignoring, trying to calm people about risks they are exaggerating, or trying to help people cope with risks they are enduring.


On or before February 16, 2009: $425

After February 16, 2009 (ends March 6, 2009): $475

On-site registration: $525

Students*: $175 (proof of current full-time registration at an academic institution required)

Group discount is available. For more information and to access a course brochure, please visit: http://www.soeh.ubc.ca/Continuing_Education/default.stm. (N.B. If you have trouble accessing this hyperlink, please copy and paste this URL into your internet browser.)



Course inquiries:
Lydia Ma
Director, Continuing Education & Outreach

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
School of Environmental Health
2206 East Mall, 3rd Floor
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3

T: 604.822.9599 | F: 604.822.6207 | lydia.ma@ubc.ca | www.soeh.ubc.ca

Available on campus and online via Live Classroom*, SOEH Seminars are open to the university community and the public, free of charge. *supported in part by funding from WorkSafeBC
Join us online every Friday @ 12:30 pm (PST): To view the Jan - Apr 2009 seminar schedule, login details and to access archived presentations, please visit: http://www.soeh.ubc.ca/Seminars/default.stm