How to Perform Mold Inspections Course
Welcome to InterNACHI's free online "How to Perform Mold Inspections Course." This course is provided by our accredited college at internachi.edu.
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Goal:
The goal of this course is to teach the student all about mold and how to perform a proper mold inspection.
Objective:
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- perform a mold inspection;
- describe different types of mold;
- explain health effects;
- perform sampling;
- interpret lab reports
- recognize remediation efforts; and
- methods to help prevent mold growth.
Course includes:
- 12 InterNACHI® CE credit hours;
- 50,016 words;
- student book;
- inspection and writing assignment;
- research and writing assignment;
- 76 quiz questions in 11 quizzes;
- a 120-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool);
- instant grading; and
- a downloadable, printable Certificate of Completion
You will learn the following topics:
- Types of Mold Inspections
- IAC2 Mold Inspection Standards
- What is Mold?
- Physical Characteristics of Mold
- Health Effects and Mold
- What Mold Needs to Grow
- Building Science and Mold
- Finding Mold in Buildings
- Inspection Tools and PPE
- Hypotheses
- Sampling Devices
- Air Sampling
- Procedures for Air Sampling
- Procedures for Surface Sampling
- When Not to Sample for Mold
- General Outline for Performing Tests
- Interpretation of Lab Results
- Threshold Limit Values
- Mold Inspection Reports
- Remediation
- Remediation of Large Areas
- Remediation in HVAC Equipment
- Remediation of Confined Spaces
- Containment
- Completing Mold Remediation
- Preventing Mold Growth
- Pollen and Mold Counts
- Vital Documents
- Glossary of Terms
- Resource List
| How to Perform Mold Inspections Course | ||
|---|---|---|
| Course #4102, Student Catalog | ||
| www.nachi.org/moldcourse | ||
| Student Work | Time Calculation | Estimated Clock Hour Time for the Average Student |
| Attendance for "Seat Time" 1 | # of minutes of student attendance / 50 | 7.2 |
| Participation in Learning Activities 2 | # of minutes of online student participation / 50 | 1.0 |
| Interactivity 3 | # of minutes of student interactivity / 50 | 0.5 |
| Reading the Course Text 4 | # of words in the course / 100 words per minute / 50 | 7.2 |
| Reading the Course Textbook 5 | # of words in the book / 100 words per minute / 50 | 3.5 |
| Academic Engagement 6 | # of words in the course / 100 / 50 | 1.0 |
| Direct Communication 7 | # of minutes of communication / 50 | 0.5 |
| Instructional Video Learning 8 | # of minutes of video / 50 | 0.0 |
| Reinforcement Q & A 9 | # of questions X 1.85 / 50 | 2.8 |
| Writing Assignment of the Inspection 10 | 4.0 hours per assignment | 4.0 |
| Writing Assignment of the Research 11 | 4.0 hours per assignment | 4.0 |
| Academic Activities for an Inspection 12 | 8.0 hours for each inspection assignment | 8.0 |
| Performing an Inspection 13 | 8.0 hours for each inspection | 8.0 |
| * nachi.org/catalog-credit-hour-calculation | 40.5 | |
| Total clock hours | 41.0 clock hours 41.0 InterNACHI CE Hours 4.1 CEU | |
Reminder to members: InterNACHI's Code of Ethics 1.10 requires that you comply with all government rules and licensing requirements of the jurisdiction where you conduct business. InterNACHI's courses and Standards generally exceed the Standards of Practice that you are required to abide by locally.
Upon completion of this course and passing the 120-question final exam, the student can download and print their own Certificate of Completion, which is auto-generated in their own name.
This course has been approved by:
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing Education log.
Members will need their username and password. If you have forgotten your password, CLICK HERE (instant response) or email fastreply@internachi.org and request it (don't forget your name).
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Leviticus 14:39-47: The priest shall come again on the seventh day and shall look; and if the disease has spread in the walls of the house, he shall command that they take out the diseased stones and cast them into an unclean place outside the city. He shall cause the house to be scraped within round about and the plaster or mortar that is scraped off to be emptied out in an unclean place outside the city. And they shall put other stones in the place of those stones, and he shall plaster the house with fresh mortar. If the disease returns, breaking out in the house after he has removed the stones and has scraped and plastered the house, then the priest shall come and look, and if the disease is spreading in the house, it is a rotting or corroding leprosy in the house; it is unclean. He shall tear down the house--its stones and its timber and all the plaster or mortar of the house--and shall carry them forth out of the city to an unclean place. Moreover, he who enters the house during the whole time that it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening. And he who lies down or eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
Some features that make InterNACHI's courses superior to existing continuing education options:
- The course is free for all InterNACHI members.
- The course is written in pure XHTML code for quick loading. The course loads fine on old computers and loads fast, even with dial-up.
- The course is designed using a hierarchal menu coupled with a sequential page navigation. This provides the student with the option to easily repeat areas of weakness.
- The course permits the student to start, stop and restart any part of the course as often as desired.
- There are a variety of images within the course, including diagrams, illustrations and photos.
- The illustrations can be enlarged for clearer viewing by clicking on them.
- The text is integrated into InterNACHI's Inspector Glossary. Rolling over blue-colored terms provides their definition.
- The final exam uses multiple-choice questions that reference the images.
- The course's quizzes and final exam have numerous advantages over traditional exam systems:
- The course, quizzes and final exam incorporate built-in intelligence which identifies and strengthens each student's unique subject weaknesses.
- Not only is each question weighted with regard to score, but each answer is weighted, as well as the correctness of each answer being weighted.
- Answers to easy questions are weighted such that the student is penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly, but rewarded modestly for answering correctly.
- Answers to difficult questions are weighted such that the student is rewarded, in terms of score, for answering correctly, but not penalized for answering incorrectly.
- Answers to questions regarding basic safety, or questions every inspector should know the answer to, are weighted such that the student is severely penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly.
- Upon passing the final exam, the student can print out a Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing Education log.
Why online inspector education is better than classroom inspector education.
