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Course Outline
Day One
Welcome and Student Introductions
Fundamentals of Healthy Housing
- Basic human needs: Thermal, Physiologic, Psychologic
- Plumbing and electrical utilities
- Health requirements for compliance
- Space, volume, and floor area
- Safety and accident conditions
- Toxic substances in materials
- Indoor air quality, CO2, and CO
- Violations of the housing ordinance
The Art of Code Enforcement
- Overview of code enforcement
- Types of inspection programs
- Understanding why owners don't comply
- What motivates people to comply with the code?
- The 5 E’s of program evaluation
- Personnel management practices
- Implementing change
- Budget management
Day Two
Violation and Compliance Powers and Processes
- Appropriate levels of enforcement
- State and local code authority
- Violations and adjudication
- Data collection and reporting
- Court processes
Building Public Support for Code Compliance
- Education programs
- Marketing code enforcement programs
- Salesmanship and selling compliance
- Effective techniques
- Customer service skills
Health Inspection, Identification, and Enforcement
- Pest identification and control
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- Termites, ants, and roaches
- Mosquitoes and house flies
- Bed bugs
- Rodents and other vectors
- House mouse and rats
- Animal hoarding and case studies
- Hoarders and clutterers
- Housing code infractions
- Atypical animal hoarding
- Mold inspection and mitigation
- The state of the science
- Owner / Occupant clean-up
- Contractors and inspections
- Advice for rental tenants
Day Three
Developing an Effective Inspection Program
- Time for inspections
- Healthy Housing Reference Manual
- Inspector’s conduct
- Equipment and methods
- Procedures and interpretations
- Developing and using inspection checklists
- Common code violations
- Structural aspects of housing code enforcement
Residential Building Construction Issues
- Administration
- Site issues
- Unsafe buildings
- Building elements
- Building envelope
- Building security
- Interior rooms
- Sanitation
- Building utilities
- Means of egress
- Fire-resistance ratings