Industrial Hygiene eNewsletter
Past Issues:
- March 2011 In This Issue:
1. NIH Launches Large-Scale Health Study for Oil Spill Cleanup Workers
2. The End of an Era?
4. AIHA Calls to Expand Corrosive Drywall Research
5. OSHA Releases Respiratory Protection Video for Health Care Workers
5. The High Price of Leaving Hearing Loss Unaddressed
6. AIHA Member Presents Value Strategy at OSHI Conference
- February 2011 In This Issue:
1. AIHA: Workplace Exposures Should Be Included in National Prevention Strategy
2. New NIST Research Method Assists Nanoparticle EHS Studies
3. American Heart Month: The Heart-Hearing Connection
4. OSHA Revises NEP for Microwave Popcorn Processing Plants
5. NIOSH and NHCA Collaborate in Noise Research Efforts
- January 2011 In This Issue:
1. AIHA Releases White Paper on OSHA's Injury and Illness Prevention Program
2. OSHA Web Chat Puts Focus on Injury and Illness Prevention Program
3. COSH Names Top 10 Workplace Tragedies for 2010
4. NHCA Addresses 'Misperceptions' Regarding OSHA's Interpretation of Noise Control Enforcement Change
5. Study: Mesothelioma Cases Underreported Worldwide
- December 2010 In This Issue:
1. AIHA Unveils Top EHS Public Policy Issues for 2011-2012
2. Wireless Monitoring for a Safe Indoor Environment
3. NIOSH Seeks Comments on Carbon Nanotube, Fiber Recommendations and Research
4. OSHA Fines U.S. Minerals $396,000 for Alleged Hazardous Dust, PPE and Training Violations
5. EPA Fines Western Refining Southwest Inc. for Illegally Disposing of Hazardous Waste and Improper Sampling
- November 2010 In This Issue:
1. AIHA, ACGIH End Alliance Discussions
2. Gas Detection: Changed Behavior Can Save Lives
3. AIHA Releases Corrosive Drywall White Paper
4. EPA Proposes to Add Nine Sites to Superfund's National Priorities List
5. MSHA Issues Proposed Rule on Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Dust
6. New York Air Monitoring Firm, Supervisors Found Guilty of Fraud and Conspiracy
- October 2010 In This Issue:
1. Oil and Gas Companies: Safer Production through Gas Detection Technology
2. AIHA's New Strategic Plan Looks to the Future of Industrial Hygiene
3. Fashion Kills: Industrial Manslaughter in the Global Supply Chain
4. NSC: OSHA, MSHA, NIOSH Leaders Discuss the State of Occupational Safety
5. MSHA Publishes an Emergency Temporary Standard for Rock Dust
6. AIHA Recognizes Dennis Paustenbach With 29th Annual Smyth Award
- September 2010 In This Issue:
1. MSHA Releases Inspection Results from Targeted Mines with Suspected Unsafe Conditions
2. Former CSB Chairman Discusses Deepwater Horizon Investigation, Board Priorities
3. Safe Work Australia Publishes Reports on Methods to Reduce Nanomaterial Exposure
4. 33 Chilean Miners Found Alive, but Rescue May Be Months Away
5. OSHA Proposes Improvements to Its On-Site Consultation Program
6. AIHA Becomes Signatory of Seoul Declaration on Safety and Health at Work
- August 2010 In This Issue:
1. House Panel Tackles Chemical Legislation
2. New Approaches in MSDS Management
3. OSHA Proposes Hundreds of Citations, $16.6 Million in Fines for Kleen Energy Explosion
4. OSHA Puts Grain Handling Operators on Notice; Fines Wisconsin Grain Cooperative $721,000
5. Green Construction Helps Clear the Air in Lower Manhattan
6. Minimizing Toxic Health Effects from the Gulf Oil Spill
- July 2010 In This Issue:
1. Nanomaterials: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. OSHA cites Enbridge G&P Following Worker Fatality From Hydrogen Sulfide
3. CSB Approves Urgent Recommendations to Prevent Deadly Explosions During Pipe Cleaning and Purging Operations
4. Hearing Protection: It's Not Just About Noise Reduction
5. MSHA Announces Underground Investigation of Upper Big Branch Mine
- June 2010 In This Issue:
1. OSHA to Hold Virtual Stakeholder Meeting on Combustible Dust
2. Mine Workers President Roberts Calls for Stronger Workplace Safety Regulations
3. New Frontiers in Science and Practice
4. OSHA Reviews the Methylene Chloride Standard
5. Mock Clandestine Drug Lab Highlights Risks to First Responders
6. Implementing Information Systems for REACH Compliance
- May 2010 In This Issue:
1. What's All This TLV Stuff About Anyhow?
2. OSHA's Big Dust-Up: Why Is OSHA Initiating a Combustible Dust Rulemaking Now?
3. Mansdorf Offers 15 Tips to Establish Leadership in EHS
4. EPA Launches BP Oil Spill Web Site
5. The Importance of Mobile Radiation Detection for Homeland Security
6. EPA Announces Plans to Regulate Coal Ash
- April 2010 In This Issue:
1. Expert: Deadly W.Va. Mining Accident Reminiscent of Past Disaster
2. 25 Die in W.Va. Coal Mine Explosion, 4 Still Missing
3. Four Missing Coal Miners Found Dead, MSHA to Investigate
4. Worker Attitudes Towards Hearing Protection, and How to Change Them
5. Double IAQ Advantage: Better Filtration and Reduced Total Cost
- March 2010 In This Issue:
1. AIHA Participates in GHS Public Hearing
2. Searching for America's Safest Companies
3. ASSE Wants Control Banding in OSHA's Hazmat Communications Standard
4. Cummins Inc. Agrees to Pay $2.1 Million Penalty for EPA Clean Air Act Violations
5. Understanding Influences on Risks: A Four-Part Model
6. CSB Sheds Light on Fatal Kleen Energy Explosion, Highlights Gas Blow Hazards
7. Chemical Emergencies: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- February 2010 In This Issue:
1. AIHA Comments on OSHA's Proposed Hazcom Standard Revision
2. Managing Environment: Sustainability -- The EHS Challenge
3. OSHA Publishes Booklet Outlining Hex Chrome Standards
4. What You Need to Know about Dust Explosions and Your Facility, Part 2
5. Choosing and Maintaining Emergency Eyewashes/Showers
6. EPA Strengthens Air Quality Standard for Nitrogen Dioxide
- January 2010 In This Issue:
1. GHS: The Power of One
2. EPA Strengthens Smog Standard
3. NIOSH and Toyota Collaborate on Safety and Health Research
4. What You Need to Know About Dust Explosions
5. ASSE Urges OSHA to Include Control Banding in Hazcom Standard
- November 2009 In This Issue:
1. AIHA Comments on Hearing Protector Labeling
2. OSHA Proposes Rulemaking for Combustible Dust Standard
3. Elgin Sweeper Keeps Ahead of The Indoor Air Quality Curve
4. MSHA Notifies 10 Operators for Potential Pattern of Violations
5. Lead Your Employees To Water and Urge Them To Drink!
- October 2009 In This Issue:
1. OSHA Issues Proposed Rule to Adopt the Globally Harmonized Hazard Communication System
2. OSHA Cites Cheektowaga, N.Y., Employer for Lack of Industrial Hygiene Measures
3. Wireless Gas Detection: An Update and Two Case Studies
4. The TharpeRobbins Co. Reaches a New Plateau in Environmental Responsibility
5. Alabama Workers Overcome by Fumes; OSHA Proposes More than $360,000 in Fines
6. Global Electronics Industry: Poster Child of 21st Century Sweatshops and Despoiler of the Environment?
7. Practice Safety and Common Sense When Handling Compressed Gas Cylinders
- September 2009 In This Issue:
1. John Howard Reappointed NIOSH Director
2. DOL Withdraws Risk Assessment Rule
3. Workers May Bring Lead Dust Home With Them
4. Saving Lives in Laramie
5. OSHA Proposes Revisions to Acetylene Standard
6. DHS Secretary Napolitano and FEMA Administrator Fugate Unveil New Ads to Encourage Emergency Preparedness
7. Setting the Record Straight: CO2 Technology is Part of the Solution
- August 2009 In This Issue:
1. OSHA Publishes New Combustible Dust Hazards Document
2. Canada Gains New Nanotechnology Research and Product Development Center
3. OSHA Publishes Ethylene Oxide Guidance Document
4. CSB Releases Combustible Dust Video
5. Review Suggests Weak Support for Workplace Hearing Loss Programs
- July 2009 In This Issue:
1. Industrial Vaccuum Cleaners: They're Not Your Mother's Cleaning Tools
2. AIHA Comments on Protecting America's Workers Act
3. OSHA Launches Regional Program to Reduce Lead Exposure in the Workplace
4. Research Examines the Financial, Health Costs of Coal Mining
5. New Report Finds Fault with Radiation Portal Monitors, Better Technology Needed
6. OSHA Offers Tips on Working Safely in Hot Weather
7. Secondhand Smoke May Threaten Casino Workers' Health
- June 2009 In This Issue:
1. AIHA, ACGIH Plan New Strategic Alliance
2. Predicting the Future by Creating It
3. Sustainable Development Beyond Borders
4. Wiki to Share Information about Global EHS Issues of Nanotechnology
5. The Injury/Illness Management Audit Key to Spotting Trends
6. Doubt Is Their Product: Manufactured Uncertainty and Public Health
- May 2009 In This Issue:
1. Testing, Testing: Revalidating the CIH Exam, Re-Envisioning the IH Profession
2. Special Challenges with Gas Detection
3. Industrial Hygienists Urge Businesses to Prepare for a Pandemic Now
4. AIHA Asks OSHA to Lower Noise Exposure PEL
5. New Developments in Respiratory Protection
6. OSHA Initiates Rulemaking on Combustible Dust Hazards
- April 2009 In This Issue:
1. AIHA Supports Combustible Dust Legislation, Offers Recommendations
2. NIOSH Issues Updated Nanotechnology Guidance
3. Your Guide to the Safe Handling of Flammable Liquids
4. Turning Brown to Green
5. AIHA Urges Solis to Consider Worker Safety, Health Issues
6. European Workers Face Increasing Health Risks From Hazardous Substances
- March 2009 In This Issue:
1. Building a Bridge to Safety Excellence: The Role of Culture
2. Obama's FY 2010 Budget Allocates $13.3 Billion to Labor Department
3. AIHA Forms Limited Liability Companies for Laboratory Programs
4. NRR: Now Really Relevant
5. EPA Ordered to Reconsider 2006 Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter
- February 2009 In This Issue:
1. AIHA Calls on Congress to Support a GAO Study on NIOSH
2. FDLI: Nanotechnology Risk Management Policies Needed Now
3. EIP, Sierra Club Sue EPA for Failing to Properly Regulate Air Pollution From Nitric Acid Plants
4. Dear Mr. President: Please Give OSHA Adequate Support to Protect Workers in 3 Million New Jobs
5. How Regulation and Innovation Have Shaped Respiratory Protection
6. Coal-Fired Power Plant to Spend $135 Million to Settle Clean Air Violations - January 2009 In This Issue:
1. ALARA and Chemical Exposure: A Prudent Practice
2. EPA Revises Air Permit Policy for Aggregating Facility Changes
3. CDC Director Resigns
4. Qulitative Differences in OSHA Outreach Training Course Providers
5. MSHA: Mine Deaths Fell to All-Time Low in 2008
6. Tyson Foods Pleads Guilty, Agrees to pay $500,000 Fine for Violation that Led to Worker Fatality - December 2008 In This Issue:
1. Trivia and EHS Practice - Sometimes Serendipity
2. AIHA Suggests Qualifications for OSHA Administrator
3. Attack of the Toxic Air Handler
4. PVC Manufacturers Agree to Reduce Air Pollutants, Strengthen Control of Hazardous Wastes
5. Real or Fake: Which Christmas Tree is More Eco-Friendly?
6. AIHA Hosts Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene Course in China - November 2008 In This Issue:
1. AIHA Executive Director Departs, New Director Hired
2. European Organizations Work to Promote Safe Workplaces
3. MSHA Announces Initiative to Bolster Mine Safety
4. OSHA, AIHA Renew Alliance
5. BLS Releases 2007 Workplace Injury and Illness Rates
6. "Clean" Nanoscale Production Not Always a Reality - October 2008 In This Issue:
1. Time to Reform FECA?
2. AIHA Announces Academy of Industrial Hygiene Election Results
3. Expanding Confined Space Awareness
4. Stakeholders Weigh In On DOL Risk Assessment Rule
5. NSC Supports Uniform Injury Data Collection System - September 2008 In This Issue:
1. Are Manufacturer's Recommendations the Best Solution?
2. Report Evaluates NIOSH Injury Prevention Program
3. Webcast: Can You Hear Me Now? Quantifying Noise, Assessing Exposure, & Evaluating Results
4. OSHA Offers Assistance for Hurricane Gustav Cleanup and Recovery
5. MSHA Makes Crandall Canyon Mine Criminal Referral
6. DOL Wants Consistent Procedures for Agency Risk Assessments - August 2008 In This Issue:
1. MSDS Gone Wild!
2. Ansonia Copper and Brass Forges $212,000 in Fines
3. Should OSHA Adopt a Combustible Dust Standard?
4. Imperial Sugar Operations VP Recounts Unsafe Conditions Prior to Blast
5. MSHA Proposes $1.85 Million in Fines for Crandall Canyon Mine Disaster - July 2008 In This Issue:
1. Which OSHA Requirement Would You Toss?
2. MSHA Proposes Belt Air Rule
3. CSB Report Calls for Improved Nonconductive Flammable Liquid MSDSs
4. Focused Inspections of Petroleum Refineries in Washington Finds Multiple Violations at Shell's Equilon Facility
5. MSHA Notifies 16 Mine Operators of Potential Patterns of Violations
6. Pfizer Agrees to $975,000 Penalty for Clean Air Act Violations - June 2008 In This Issue:
1. The Great MSDS Hoax
2. Young Leaders in Industrial Hygiene
3. AIHce: Placing a Value on Industrial Hygiene
4. IH Instrumentation: Catch Problems Before They Happen
5. AIHce: Occupational Health Impact of the World Trade Center Disaster: Lessons Learned - May 2008 In This Issue:
1. A Worker's Worldview
2. Judge Rules in Favor of ACGIH in IBSA/NMA Lawsuit
3. Confined Space Safety and Rescue: Challenges and Lessons Learned
4. House Approves Bill Addressing Combustible Dust Hazards
5. AIHA Calls for Howard’s Reappointment as NIOSH Director - April 2008 In This Issue:
1. Putting Safety First: More Lessons from the Boy Scouts
2. AIHA Questions Dust Rule's Timeline
3. Managing Nanotech Hazards with Green Chemistry
4. Study: Coal Mining Pollution May Affect Public Health
5. CSB Video Provides Details of BP Texas City Blast
6. Study Finds Diacetyl Exposure Harmful to Mice - March 2008 In This Issue:
1. The Indirect Approach
2. Big Issues Keep Industrial Hygienists Focused on the Big Picture
3. OSHA Refinery Audit Exposes Massive Violations
4. Can You Hear Me Now? The Impacts of Hearing Loss
5. New ASTM Standard Provides Asbestos Guidance - February 2008 In This Issue:
1. Teaching an Old Dogma New Tricks
2. ACGIH Ratifies Exposure Limits
3. Responder Safety: The Lingering Threat of Avian Flu
4. AIHA Launches Digital Library
5. EPA Program Addresses Nanoscale Product Safety
6. OSHA's New Program Addresses Crystalline Silica Hazards - January 2008 In This Issue:
1. Season of Lights
2. Safety Roundtable: Looking Inside the EHS Crystal Ball
3. Survey Reveals PPE Compliance Concerns
4. Welding Safety: Ventilation is a Breath of Fresh Air
5. EPA Quits River Cleanup Talks With Dow - December 2007 In This Issue:
1. 'We Hired Them Because They're the Experts!'
2. Nation's Weapons Labs Have Dire Safety Problems, GAO Says
3. NIOSH Science Blog Stimulates Communication
4. Minnesota Pork Plant Workers Afflicted With Mysterious Illness
5. Construction Workers Suffer Skin Rashes in Katrina, Rita's Wake
