HR professionals in state and local governments face a number of challenges when dealing with municipal employees. Not only do they have to deal with the typical wage and hour, harassment, leave and retaliation issues, they also have ADA, discrimination, and whistleblowing procedures and rules they must follow. It is critical that HR professionals at the state, local, and federal government level prepare by understanding what are the five bigg...

Auditing and Evaluating Government Program Performance Featuring Two Interactive Courses: Performance Auditing: Achieving Maximum Impact • Create successful strategies to improve performance auditing • Develop relevant program measures to better improve program objectives Program Evaluation: Developing and Performing High-Priority Evaluation Activities • Learn to determine if a program is a accomplishing its intended outcomes ...

Creating Winning Proposals Seminar Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Join us for our proposal writing seminar coveringeverything you need to create winning proposals. This is a LIMITED CAPACITY event - prompt registration is encouraged. Featuring: Beth Wingate Managing Director, Proposal DevelopmentLohfeld Consulting Group, Inc.Creating winning proposals for government contractors Beth Wingate has more than 22 years' proposal development, managemen...

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) announced keynotes and speakers for the 5th Annual Online Trust and Cybersecurity Forum being hosted at Georgetown University September 22-24 in Washington DC. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity leader and presidential advisor Howard Schmidt are scheduled provides morning kickoffs. Later that morning, Greg Link of Franklin Covey will provide a keynote on the Speed of Trust, the New Yo...

This five-hour course will prepare you to ship dangerous goods by air in accordance with the International Air Transport Association's Dangerous Goods Regulations. Topics include how to determine which materials are regulated, how to package dangerous goods for air transportation, special requirements for consumer commodities, and marking and labeling requirements. You will also learn how to use the international regulations within the guideli...

Target Audience This conference is designed to meet the needs of direct health care providers, managers, administrators, risk managers, educators, industrial hygienists/safety professionals, and researchers of any discipline who are interested in advancing safety for patients and caregivers. To meet the needs of a diverse audience, focused tracks have been established for: Track A: Direct Patient Care Providers/Peer Leaders responsible for pat...

If your facility generates hazardous waste in the state of Texas, you must comply not only with the Texas hazardous and industrial waste regulations, but also with federal regulations that have not yet been incorporated into the Texas rules. This two-day seminar meets the Texas and federal annual training requirements for generators of hazardous waste in Texas. Topics covered include waste characterization, on-site management, manifesting, lan...

OSHA's Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response rule at 29 CFR 1910.120 regulates cleanup sites, TSDs, and emergency responders. Sections 1910.120 (e) and (p) require workers engaged in hazardous waste operations and workers at TSDs to receive at least eight hours of refresher training annually. Emergency responders must receive annual training of sufficient duration and content to maintain their competencies. This eight-hour webcast...

Attendees will gain insight on the MAS IT 70 offer process, marketing a MAS IT 70 contract, and keeping schedule contracts in compliance. GSA's Center for the IT Schedule 70 Program offers business partner training. The sessions are held at 2200 Crystal Drive, Crystal Plaza 4, Room L1301, Arlington, VA 22202. There is no fee for the training and it will include: a) Pre-award - provides an overview of the offer process and break-out discussions...

About This Training: The Advanced Improvised Explosive Devices workshop is designed to address the growing threat of terrorists’ tactics, techniques and procedures utilizing improvised explosive devices. With the ever present ability to easily acquire materials necessary to construct improvised explosive devices; there is a need to educate and familiarize first responders to the fundamentals of common explosive ordnance, explosive detect...