OHTA: Occupational Hygiene Training Association
Svirchev OHS Management Systems is an Approved Training Provider for the Occupational Hygiene Training Association (OHTA). Students qualify for the OHTA International Certificate in Occupational Hygiene (ICertOHTA) after the successful completion of 6 Intermediate modules including the 4 core modules.
Courses are taught in person or on-line, in English & French. At the end of each course, students sit for the OHTA on-line examination in the language they are most comfortable with. - https://ohtatraining.org/
Who We Are
Laurence Svirchev
Who We Are
Laurence Svirchev CIH has about four decades experience in the prevention of serious injuries, occupational diseases, occupational fatalities. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), holds a BSc. in OEHS, and an MA in Disaster & Emergency Management.
He has extensive in occupational cancer epidemiology research, management of prevention programs in manufacturing, sawmills, pulp & paper, oil & gas fields, and the movie industry (during the COVID-19 pandemic). As a senior OEHS professional he has managed international HSE projects in hydroelectric infrastructure projects in Fiji, Niger, Indonesia, and Pakistan, steep-slope land-clearing operations, healthcare, and agriculture.
He is a former WorkSafeBC Regulatory Affairs Prevention Officer, inspecting almost every kid of workplace in BC, including healthcare. He spent five years as a Fatal & Serious Injuries Investigator. He specializes in multi-cultural factors to enhance workplace training.
Mr. Svirchev is principal or co-author of over twenty peer-reviewed publications in the OHS, Epidemiology, and Disaster Management literature. He spent eight years as a Visiting Researcher, Chengdu University of Technology National Key Laboratory of Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Sichuan, China investigating the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake.
He is member of the AIHA and EUROSA (Serbia). He chairs the Stakeholder Affairs Committee of the International Occupational Hygiene Association
