THERE IS STILL TIME TO PARTICIPATE!
A message from Certification Commission Co - Chair Jeff Wigley
The PSAI Service Technician Survey ends on Monday, July 17th! Thank you to
all who have participated in this very important project. For those of you that
have yet to complete the s urvey, please do so now. We need your insight and
experience to count in our analysis .
This ambitious project began at the first of the year and is the result of several
months of work by the Certificatio n Commission. The goal of the s urvey is to
determine the relative importance of the many critical tasks that Service Technicians perform on a daily basis. The
results of the survey will be used to construct questions for the new PSAI Certification Exam.
The Certification Commission was formed in mid 2014 with the purpose of establishing an accredited Certification
Program that built on a rich 25 year tradition of excellence in this area. Meet ings and h ard work have followed and
the s urvey is the culmination of our efforts up to this point.
Why is the s urvey so important? It is because our Service Technicians are so important .
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Dispatch #3 from South Africa
Research Reveals New Ways of Extracting Value from
Human Waste
Note: Executive Director Karleen Kos represented the PSAI at
a series of meetings in Durban, South Africa, sponsored by the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in June.
The purpose of the meetings was to lay the foundation for the
development of an International Working Agreement (IWA) on
standards for sustainable fecal sludge processing systems.
More than 100 participants from dozens of countries were
involved and funding was largely provided by the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation.
One of the highlights of our four - d ay meeting in Durban was a visit to research facilities nearby. The work at these
facilities provided the professionals in attendance with a broader understanding of the technologies that are in
development and to which the International Working Agreement may apply. In the June 28 issue of Association
Insight I described our first site visit in Durban. There we saw a system for diverting urine, collecting fecal sludge, and
processing it using black soldier fly larvae technology.
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