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Radon - 2nd leading cause of lung cancer
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Come to PLI for your radon certification. Learn all about radon and its health effects. Help get the message out through Kentuckiana about radon. Kentucky leads the way in lung cancer deaths. Have you tested your home for radon? Learn how at PLI. |
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Radon Certification Month |
July - 2012 |
Greetings!
Radon Certification Today = The Biggest Bang for Your Buck Why now is the time to get your radon certification. There are loads of great reasons to get radon certified in Kentucky. Start with pumping up average ticket prices by about one-third. Call that around $40,000 in extra take-home, on average. Throw in a real public service. Saving kids from radon-induced lung cancer. Priceless. Then remember many folks moving here expect radon testing. Avoid losing their business. And attract all the other clients who know anything about public health. There's one more major reason. Kentucky's new radon certification law is likely to make it lots more complicated, and expensive, to get certified starting next year. Inspectors certified before then are favorites to get "grandfathered" when Kentucky's certification rule comes down next year. The new Kentucky law kicks in on January 1, 2013, if everything goes as planned. The new Kentucky radon certification law provides that "No person or business shall conduct radon measurement, mitigation, or laboratory analysis in this Commonwealth after January 1, 2013 without the appropriate certification pursuant to KRS 211.9101 to 211.9135. '
The law, KRS 211.9107 became effective June 8, 2011. Professional Learning Institute became the first Kentucky source for classes soon after. Until then, inspectors had to trek to Columbus or Raleigh for the classes and test.
Only individuals are certified under the law. Businesses may engage in radon measurement, mitigation, or laboratory analysis if the owner or an employee is certified as a radon measurement or mitigation contractor, or radon laboratory, as applicable. KRS 211.9119.
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) is named "the regulatory agency for the control of radon in the Commonwealth of Kentucky." KRS 211.9135. CHFS is required to put out regulations for certification, renewal, and research. Its powers to enforce include the power to subpoena and to levy fines. All fees, fines and other moneys in the program are deposited into a radon mitigation and control fund, established by KRS 211.9133.
Of course, beginning in 1992, with KRS 211.855-857, Kentucky law has required certification of radon measurement and mitigation. (The new law, KRS 211.9101-9135 repealed the former KRS 211.855 to 211.857.) The problem was that no regulations to actually certify anyone ever got put into effect. As a result, CHFS accepted National Radon Safety Board (NRSB) and NEHA (National Environmental Health Association) certification instead.
Certifications from those two groups both are likely to be "grandfathered" this time, if CHFS actually gets certification regulations up and running this time. To be safe, and to help home inspectors get certified "come what may," PLI began offering radon certification, and the national exam, July 2011.
To try to make sure certification actually, really happens this time, a new "Kentucky Radon Program Advisory Committee" is created under the law. KRS 211.9103. The committee has met four times now. The Radon Advisory Committee (aka RAP) does not have one home inspector as a member, essentially because the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors (KBHI) fell asleep at the switch. It appears the KBHI did not even know the law was being considered by the General Assembly. Yet home inspectors almost certainly provide more radon information to the home buying public than any other single group.
Initial radon measurement certification will cost $250, with annual renewals. Certification will require a bond, E&O insurance, liability insurance, and a quality control plan. Renewal is annual, with 8 CEs per year. CHFS will approve all devices for radon measurement. KRS 211.9109. It is basically the same for radon mitigation, except the E&O insurance requirement is left out for them. KRS 211.9111.
Interestingly, all certified persons are required to report to CHFS "the discovery of any apparent noncompliance with any provision of KRS 211.9101 to 9135." KRS 211.9131. |
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July 26th & 27th - Louisville
2 Day Radon Gas Seminar
Initial Radon Measurement, Mitigation Prerequisite or 16 CE's
This seminar is the initial training required for Radon Gas Certification as a Measurement Specialist
16 hours (2 days)
16 hours are acceptable towards radon CE
Courses are accepted by NRSB and NEHA
The National Exam is available immediately following the 16 hour course.
Special hotel rates are available for early registration.
Class size is limited so call NOW to register
2nd Chance: September 28th & 29th
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