NEW Ethics Training Courses Now Available

Fees: Individual Registration Member $70.00 Non-Member: $95.00
Group of up to 10 Registration Members $425.00 Non-Member $650.00

PAAEL contracted with Aaren Alger, past PADEP Lab Accreditation Program Chief and founder of Alger Consulting & Training LLC, to develop our On-Line Ethics Training Courses.

At the request of our membership, we have two NEW Ethics Training Courses. Both courses follow the same basic Agenda. The courses will describe the requirements for lawful and ethical behavior related to environmental testing. The courses provide examples of:

• Definition and explanation of ethics as it pertains to environmental laboratory testing
• Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest
• Appropriate and inappropriate laboratory activities related to data review and reduction, recordkeeping, reporting and training
• Evaluation of trends, preventative action, corrective action and introduction to root-cause analysis
• Potential consequences for inappropriate behavior
• Appropriate reporting practices when departures from accepted practices occur, when quality control protocols fail, or when questions of inappropriate actions arise.

Ethics Training Level 1 The Level 1 course is a more basic course and may be more relevant to Laboratory Staff in a laboratory performing basic chemistry testing and microbiology analyses. 

Objective of the Course: The objective of the course is to present ethics training that meets both the TNI Standard and 25Pa. Code, Chapter 252. In this course, the training will focus on the actions and activities undertaken in a small commercial laboratory or municipal laboratory that performs primarily field measurements, basic chemistry and/or microbiology testing.

At the conclusion of the course, a Quiz will be taken by the participant. The Quiz will be graded and participants achieving a passing grade will receive an Ethics Training Certificate.

Ethics Training Level 2 The Level 2 course is a more complex course and may be more relevant to Laboratory QA/QC Staff and Medium or Large Laboratory Staff employing GC, GCMS, ICP, ICP/MS and other more complicated testing. This course also includes the same basic chemistry and microbiology concepts presented in the Level 1 course. 

Objective of the Course: The objective of the course is to present ethics training that meets both the TNI Standard and 25Pa. Code, Chapter 252. In this course, the training will focus on the actions and activities undertaken in laboratories that performs more complicated testing utilizing chromatography, mass spectrometry and other testing that utilizes automated record generation in addition to field measurements, basic chemistry and/or microbiology testing.

At the conclusion of the course, a Quiz will be taken by the participant. The Quiz will be graded and participants achieving a passing grade will receive an Ethics Training Certificate.

If paying by check:
Complete the attendee information page found HERE and submit it with your check.
The check should be made payable to PAAEL and mailed to 210 Ewe Road Mechanicsburg, PA 17055.
The password will be emailed to you after payment has been received.

If paying by credit card:
Select the number of courses you want to purchase in the correct “Ticket” below (Member or Non-Member – Individual or Group) Note: For a group this will usually be a “one” as you are purchasing “one group of ten”
Complete the required information.
The password will be emailed to you when you have completed the payment process.

Please remember that the courses are the property of the Association and can only be used by those people that have purchased the course at that time.