Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Healthy Home Evaluator (HHE)

Demand is growing for preventative home health assessments and interventions in the public and private marketplace. From identifying asthma triggers and risk of lead poisoning to testing for CO and other health hazards, tremendous opportunity exists to incorporate healthy home measures into home performance assessments.

Developed in partnership with the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI), this certification builds upon the BPI Building Analyst (BA), Energy Auditor (EA) or Quality Control Inspector (QCI) certifications to verify competencies required to conduct in-depth healthy home environmental risk assessments.

The Healthy Home Evaluator assesses home-based environmental health and safety hazards including asthma triggers from dust, moisture and mold, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), lead-based paint, asbestos, radon, carbon monoxide leaks, as well as potential fire hazards, trip and fall hazards, and pest management issues and provides a prioritized list of recommendations to address those hazards.

• A BPI Healthy Home Evaluator looks for conditions in a home that can be related to an individual’s health issues.

• A BPI Healthy Home Evaluator makes recommendations for a homeowner to seek additional counsel from a licensed healthcare professional.

  
  

Healthy homes are part of Medicaid and Medicare. At least 13 states are working on programs that will recommend and/or reimburse these healthy home evaluations as a part of total health care. HHE by prescription will be an integral part in the future of energy audits.

Prerequisites:

Course Topics:

• Understanding the key principles of a healthy home

• Data collection

• Analysis and interpretation of data

• Client communication

• Client education

• Personal safety and protection

• Practice questions for written exam

Syllabus