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Training & Education

This page includes currently available MAHC educational networks and presentations, such as webinars and virtual conferences, organized by date. These are offered to give readers an opportunity to learn more about the MAHC development, process, organization, and progress. To obtain a copy of a MAHC overview PowerPoint presentation to introduce or update current MAHC knowledge with an aquatics or public health group, please contact us at MAHC@cdc.gov.

Educational Networks

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Join the the MAHC Network created by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). The MAHC Network is a community for MAHC users, subject matter experts, and those hoping to learn about the code itself. Members will receive updates on the code, have access and provide input to newly developed resources, and join bi-monthly webinars featuring the code and users.

Presentations & Webinars

Title: Springboard to Prevention: The Model Aquatic Health Code, 1st Edition. National Environmental Health Association Pre-Conference Workshop
Summary: These four PowerPoint presentations were used in a half-day session sponsored by the CMAHC and the National Environmental Health Association. They cover the creation and development of the MAHC and focus in detail on two key areas in the MAHC, lifeguarding and secondary disinfection. The presentations end with a summary of upcoming guidance for regulatory programs and planned MAHC surveillance to measure long term public health impact.

  • Why Create the MAHC?[PDF - 51 pages]
    Why the MAHC was created, how the MAHC was created and structured, what are the potential short and long-term public health outcomes, how jurisdictions can use it, and how will the MAHC be kept up to date. Michael Beach, Ph.D, Associate Director for Healthy Water, CDC
  • Key Concepts Influencing Lifeguarding Staffing Plans[PDF - 39 pages]
    Technical aspects of the MAHC’s lifeguarding provisions using visual aides to show factors affecting surveillance, such as blind spots, glare and rotation procedures, and integration into a facility's Aquatic Safety Plan. Doug Sackett, MAHC Director, NYS Dept of Health-Retired; Roy Fielding, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Richard A. Carroll, Sr. VP, Jeff Ellis & Associates, Inc.
  • Secondary Disinfection[PDF - 66 pages]
    Why secondary disinfection systems are needed for increased risk aquatic venues, review of the design principles and sizing calculations, and how to verify a UV and ozone system is operating properly. Doug Sackett, MAHC Director, NYS Dept of Health-Retired; Beth Hamil, VP, Del Ozone, San Luis Obispo, CA; Tom Schaefer, Sales Director, atg UV Technology, Manchester, UK.
  • Adding to Our Healthy and Safe Swimming Arsenal[PDF - 48 pages]
    Tools the MAHC provides for both inspectors and operators including risk-based inspection procedures, daily operational checklists, inspection forms, MAHC surveillance system, and more. CDR Jasen Kunz, MPH, REHS, Environmental Health Officer, Environmental Health Services Branch, CDC; Michele Hlavsa, RN, MPH, Chief, Healthy Swimming Program, Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch, CDC.

For more information, please contact us at MAHC@cdc.gov.

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