Weird Radon Class with Kentucky Logo Lands With a THUD

What happened?

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It was supposed to be the class to launch Kentucky new radon licensing program.  It was more like the Challenger space shuttle launch.  Or maybe KY jelly.

The class was advertised with the Kentucky Dept of Health logo, which also was on the class materials.  But it turned out it was private enterprise, and so was part of the instruction.  In the end, people who paid had no form to apply for certification, no concrete ways to get it done, but real contacts to buy stuff the instructors were selling. Oh, and 8 CE credits.

“Premature ejaculation” was the comment we heard heading out the door — after a certified 8 hours of doing time in a frustrating radon class that mostly had no answers for anyone’s questions.

It had all the trappings of a state government show-and-tell, but none of the content.  Ads for the class came out with the Commonwealth’s “KY Spirit” logo.  The class was in the Kentucky Dept. of Transportation offices — a state government facility.  But it evidently was just a private group making a buck — and spending class time selling products and services from a private trade group or two.

One speaker threatened inspectors with lines about radon police “knocking on your door” — and you “could lose your livelihood” — without buying their magic sales pitch.

The truth is that  Kentucky has no radon police.  The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), which will handle radon licensing a/k/a “certification”, is working slowly and carefully to try to get this right.  It is not sending out the dogs.  It does not have much experience in this and it shows.  But forget the scare talk.

Another half dozen classes in the same government building have been announced, in mid-March and May.

It turns out that Kentucky has not certified or approved any of those classes, despite the logo.

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