"How to Inspect Septic Systems" course.
Welcome to InterNACHI's free, online How to Inspect Septic Systems course. This course is the largest,
most in-depth septic system course of its kind. After successful completion of the training, the student
will be able to perform two types of inspections of onsite wastewater
(septic) treatment systems: maintenance inspections and functional inspections. And, in
keeping with InterNACHI's commitment to Continuing Education,
this septic system inspection course is open and free to all members, and can be taken
again and again, without limit.
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.
This course has been approved by:
The How to Inspect Septic Systems course includes:
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21 sections (28,000 words);
- 9 quizzes;
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50-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool);
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Printable Certificate of Completion;
- instant grading;
- a downloadable, printable Certificate of Completion; and
- accreditations and state approvals.
The course covers the following categories:
- Objective
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Tools Needed
- General Information
- Permission to Inspect
- Gather Information Before the Inspection
- Evaluate the Plumbing of the House
- Locating the Components of the System
- Evaluate the System Components
- Scheduling Maintenance Inspections
- Report to the Client
- The Inspection Forms and Report
- A Package of 4 Sample Septic Inspection Documents
- Sample Inspection Report
- Additional Suggested Comments for the Inspection Report
- Calculating Tank Volume
- Sewage Flows
- Septic System Additives
- Onsite System Inspection Form
- Terminology for Onsite (Septic) Wastewater Treatment Systems
- A Homeowner’s Guide to Septic Systems
- Conclusion
Upon completion of this course and passing of
the 50-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool), the student can
download and print their own
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. It counts as ten (10) InterNACHI
Continuing Education hours.
Non-members may view only the first page of the course.
InterNACHI... #1 in inspection education.
Some features which 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.