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A. Course Title: Environmental Health & Safety
B. Course Number: ENGT 213A - 30805
3 Credit Hours This course provides a working knowledge of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Regulations. The emphasis of the course is on definition of hazard classes using the hazardous materials table, marking, labeling, placarding, and shipping papers. Material from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, OSHA, and the Environmental Protection Agency is integrated throughout the course.
Environmental Science: Principles, Connections, and Solutions (latest edition) by G. Tyler Miller, Jr., and Scott Spoolman. The latest edition of this text is available through the NMJC Bookstore. Earlier editions (back to 12th Edition) are acceptable for the course & can be purchased online.
Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Parts 105 - 110 (provided by instructor);
Parts 130 (provided by instructor); and
Parts 171 - 177 (provided by instructor)
[49CFR105-177].
These are also available on the internet. The recommended website: "http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title49/49cfrv2_02.tpl" (cut and paste this link into your web browser). This provides the latest version of the text.
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to identify the multiple impacts of human activity on the environment and approaches to sustaining biodiversity, resources, and environmental quality. The student should also be able to identify hazardous material (HAZMAT) classes; understand HAZMAT transportation regulations (49 CFR Parts 100 to 177) & the Hazardous Materials Table (HMT); and have a working knowledge of HAZMAT shipping papers, marking, labeling and placarding.
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to identify the basic principles related to:
2. Ecology & sustainability
5. Sustaining resources
6. Sustaining environmental quality
7. HAZMAT Transportation Regulations (49 CFR Parts 100 to 177)
8. Hazardous Materials Table (HMT):
a)Symbols
b)Hazardous materials descriptions and proper shipping names
c)Hazard class or Division
d)Identification Numbers
e)PG
f)Label Codes
g)Special provisions
h)Packaging (Exceptions, Non-bulk, Bulk)
i)Quantity limitations (Passenger aircraft, rail, Cargo aircraft only)
j)Vessel stowage
MODULE 1: Humans and Sustainability: An Overview, Environmental Science, Chapter 1
1.	Environmental problems, their causes and sustainability
1.1	What are some principals of sustainability?
1.2	How are our ecological footprints affecting the Earth?
1.3	Why do we have environmental problems?
1.4	What is an environmentally sustainable society?
Module 1 Quiz: Humans & Sustainability
MODULE 2: Ecology and Sustainability Part A, Environmental Science, Chapters 2-5
2.1	What do scientists do?
2.2	What is matter and what happens when it undergoes change?
2.3	What is energy and what happens when it undergoes change?
2.4	What are systems and how do they respond to change?
3.	Ecosystems: what are they and how do they work?
3.1	How does the Earth’s life-support system work?
3.2	What are major components of an ecosystem?
3.3	What happens to energy in an ecosystem?
3.4	How do scientists study ecosystems?
4.	Evolution and biodiversity
4.1	What is biodiversity and why is it important?
4.2	What roles do species play in ecosystems?
4.3	How does the Earth’s life change over time?
4.4	What factors affect biodiversity?
5.1	How do species interact?
5.2	How do communities and ecosystems respond to changing environmental conditions?
5.3	What limits the growth of populations?
MODULE 3: Ecology and Sustainability Part B, Environmental Science, Chapters 6-7
6.	The human population and urbanization
6.1 How many people can the Earth support?
6.2 What factors influence the size of the human population?
6.3 How does a population’s age structure affect its growth and decline?
6.4 What are some ways to slow human population growth?
6.5 What are the major urban resource and environmental problems?
6.6 How does transportation affect urban environmental impacts?
7.	Climate and biodiversity
7.2 What are the world’s major terrestrial ecosystems and how are human activities affecting them?
7.3 What are the major types of marine aquatic systems and how are human activities affecting them?
7.4 What are the major types of freshwater systems and how are human activities affecting them?
Modules 2 & 3 Quiz: Ecology & Sustainability
MODULE 4: Sustaining Biodiversity, Environmental Science, Chapters 8-9
8. Sustaining biodiversity: saving species and ecosystem services
8.1 What role do humans play in the loss of species and ecosystem services?
8.2	Why should we try to sustain wild species and the ecosystem services they provide?
8.3	How do humans accelerate species extinction and degradation of ecosystem services?
9. Sustaining biodiversity: saving ecosystems and ecosystems services
9.1	What are the major threats to forest ecosystems?
9.2	How should we manage and sustain forests?
9.3	How should we manage and sustain grasslands?
9.4	How should we manage and sustain parks and nature reserves?
9.5	What is the ecosystem approach to sustaining terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services?
9.6	How can we help to sustain aquatic biodiversity?
Module 4 Quiz: Sustaining Biodiversity
MODULE 5: Sustaining Resources and Environmental Quality Part A, Environmental Science, Chapters 10-13
10.	Food production and the environment
10.1	What is food security and why is it difficult to attain?
10.2	How is food produced?
10.3	What environmental problems arise from industrialized food production?
10.4	How can we protect crops from pests more sustainably?
10.5	How can we improve food security?
10.6	How can we produce food more sustainably?
11.	Water resources and water pollution
11.1	Will we have enough usable water?
11.2	How can we increase freshwater supplies?
11.3	How can we use freshwater more sustainably?
11.4	How can we deal with water pollution?
12.	Geology and nonrenewable mineral resources
12.1	What are the Earth’s major geological processes and what are mineral resources?
12.2	How long might supplies of nonrenewable mineral resources last?
12.3	What are the environmental effects of using nonrenewable mineral resources?
12.4	How can we use mineral resources more sustainably?
12.5	What are the Earth’s major geological hazards?
13.1	What is net energy and why is it important?
13.2	What are the advantages and disadvantages of using fossil fuels?
13.3	What are the advantages and disadvantages of using nuclear power?
13.4	Why is energy efficiency an important energy resource?
13.5	What are the advantages and disadvantages of using renewable energy resources?
13.6	How can we make the transition to a more sustainable energy future?
Module 5 Quiz: Sustaining Resources & Environmental Quality Part A
MODULE 6: Sustaining Resources and Environmental Quality Part B, Environmental Science, Chapters 14-16
14.1	What major health hazards do we face?
14.2	What types of biological hazards do we face?
14.3	What types of chemical hazards do we face?
14.4	How can we evaluate chemical hazards?
14.5	How do we perceive risks and how can we avoid the worst of them?
15.1	What is the nature of the atmosphere?
15.2	What are the major air pollution problems?
15.3	How should we deal with air pollution?
15.4	How might the Earth’s climate change in the future?
15.5	What are some possible effects of a warmer atmosphere?
15.6	What can we do to slow projected climate change?
15.7	How have we depleted ozone in the stratosphere and what can we do about it?
16.1	What are the problems related to solid and hazardous wastes?
16.2	How should we deal with solid waste?
16.3	Why are refusing, reducing, reusing, and recycling so important?
16.4	What are the advantages and disadvantages of burning or burying solid waste?
16.5	How should we deal with hazardous waste?
16.6	How can we make the transition to a more sustainable low-waste economy?
Module 6 Quiz: Sustaining Resources & Environmental Quality Part B
MODULE 7: Oil Transport & HAZMAT Classes & Markings, 49 CFR Parts 130 & 172-177 HAZMAT MATERIALS REGULATIONS
1.	49 CFR Part 130: Oil Spill Prevention and Response Plans
2.	49 CFR Part 172: Hazardous Materials Table, Special Provisions, Hazardous Materials Communications, Emergency Response Information, Training Requirements, and Security Plans
3.	49 CFR Part 173: Shippers – General Requirements for Shipments and Packagings
4.	49 CFR Part 174: Carriage by Rail
5.	49 CFR Part 175: Carriage by Aircraft
(b) This part applies to the offering, acceptance, and transportation of hazardous materials in commerce by aircraft to, from, or within the United States, and to any aircraft of United States registry anywhere in air commerce. This subchapter applies to any person who performs, attempts to perform, or is required to perform any function subject to this subchapter, including
(1) Air carriers, indirect air carriers, and freight forwarders and their flight and non-flight employees, agents, subsidiary and contract personnel (including cargo, passenger and baggage acceptance, handling, loading and unloading personnel); and
6.	49 CFR Part 176: Carriage by Vessel
This part prescribes requirements in addition to those contained in parts 171, 172, and 173 of this subchapter to be observed with respect to the transportation of hazardous materials by vessel.
7.	49 CFR Part 177: Carriage by Public Highway