The GreenScreen Advanced Topics course is ideal for technical professionals who want to elevate their expertise in choosing safer chemicals by gaining in-depth knowledge in how a GreenScreen assessment is conducted. You can either take this course as a stand-alone option or as part of the Authorized GreenScreen Practitioner Program.
Prequisite: Introduction to GreenScreen.
Purpose: Learn how to perform comprehensive, high quality GreenScreen assessments.
Learning Objectives:
- Improve skills in assessing and classifying hazard using GreenScreen and finding solutions to common challenges.
- Improve skills in assessing and classifying the hazards of chemicals lacking measured data for one or more hazard endpoints.
- Improve competencies in assigning a GreenScreen Benchmark score for the following scenarios: chemicals with data gaps, chemicals with environmental transformation products, inorganic chemicals, polymeric materials, and mixtures of chemicals.
- Increase awareness and understanding of tools and resources available to support you in performing GreenScreen assessments.
Delivery Options & Duration:
- Live web-based: Four months
- Eight separate 1.5 hour classes, two 1-hour sessions, homework, and a test
- Estimated time commitment 25-40 hours, dependent on experience and desired depth of mastery
Price: $3450 USD
Schedule: One 60-minute orientation, eight 90-minute classes, and one 60-minute closure session.
Orientation
Class #1 - Assessing & Classifying Hazards; Hazard Assessment - Data Sources and Data Preference; Carcinogenicity, Mutagenicity
Class #2 - Review Homework #1; Hazard Assessment - Data Interpretation; Reproductive Toxicity; Developmental Toxicity; Endocrine Activity
Class #3 - Review Homework #2; Hazard Assessment - Data Reporting; Introduce Group II Human Health Endpoints; Acute Mammalian Toxicity; Systemic Toxicity-Organ Effects; Neurotoxicity
Class #4 - Review Homework #3; Skin Sensitization; Respiratory Sensitization; Skin Irritation; Eye Irritation
Class #5 - Review Homework #4; Acute and Chronic Aquatic Toxicity; Persistence and Bioaccumulation
Class #6 - Review Homework #5; Reactivity and Flammability; Estimation: Analogs and Models
Class #7 - Review Homework #6; Benchmarking with Data Gaps; Environmental Transformation Products
Class #8 - Review Homework #7; Benchmarking Mixtures and Polymers
Transition and Closure