Instrumentation
Wireless Gas Detection: An Update and Two Case Studies
Wireless gas detection systems are available as stand-alone monitors, rapid deployable systems, self-healing mesh-radio systems and as replacements for traditional fixed or hard-wired systems...
Special Challenges with Gas Detection
What Mark Twain wrote about words can apply to a gas monitoring system. 'The difference between what's right and what's almost right is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.'...
Scientists Develop New Way of Finding Trapped Miners
University of Utah scientists devised a new way to find miners trapped by cave-ins with a method that involves installing iron plates and sledgehammers at regular intervals inside mines, as well as placing sensitive listening devices on the ground overhead....
Mayfly-Mimicking Sensor Could Improve Mine Safety
Mechanical engineers Ken Kiger and Elias Balaras and entomologist Jeffrey Shultz identified a biological mechanism in the young mayflies that could enable...
IH Instrumentation: Catch Problems Before They Happen
A wide variety of gas monitors are on the market today. Just take a look at any safety product catalog and you will see a range of seemingly similar gas...
IH Insights: The Indirect Approach
If you practice occupational health and safety (OHS), you eventually will encounter resistance. An ethical career in OHS guarantees direct assaults on...
ASSE Protests NYC Detector Permit Law
In the letter sent to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ASSE Chapter President Stephanie Altis-Gurnari stated that the legislation could have a negative...
Big Issues Keep Industrial Hygienists Focused on the Big Picture
Its the mantra of every industrial hygienist in every industry: use every means possible to keep employees, contractors and the public safe. Its a big...
AIHA, NYCOSH Protest Air Monitoring Bill
The bill, known as Int. No. 650: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the City of New York, in relation to permits for atmospheric biological,...
International OHS Through the Looking Glass of the Global Economy
The occupational health and safety conditions at the giant open-pit copper mine in Cananea, Mexico displayed how workplace safety in the global economy...
Welding Safety: Ventilation is a Breath of Fresh Air
Tom, a welder for 20 years, has encountered many workplace health issues throughout his career. I know a lot of welders who have suffered from emphysema...
Are You Managing Your IH Program or is it Managing You?
The personal and environmental monitoring equipment on the market today makes the instruments used 10 or 15 years ago seem positively Paleolithic. Back...
Report Confirms Problems with EPA WTC Indoor "Test and Clean" Program
The GAO is the non-partisan investigative arm of Congress charged with auditing and evaluating Government programs and activities. The report is titled,...
Impatience is a Virtue
As consumers, we have an insatiable desire for instant gratification. Consider some technological breakthroughs of the past few years, and its clear that...
When Bells and Whistles Count
Twenty years ago, certified industrial hygienists (CIHs) had discreet roles with instrumentation to match. Gas monitors had optional -printed circuit...
Mine Operators Urged to Provide Enough Breathable Air
The requirement, posted in a bulletin titled "Options for Providing Post-Accident Breathable Air to Underground Coal Miners," was published to help operators...
Core Practices: A Paradigm Shift in Gas Monitoring
The safety industry has focused its attention over the decades on a variety of specific industry or personal protection matters. Safety issues surrounding...
Tracer Gas Testing Applications for Industrial Hygiene Evaluations
by Rex W. Moore, LIH, CIH, CSP Tracers have been used extensively in various types of research and diagnostic activities. Examples include the use of...
Yes, Even You Can Do Industrial Hygiene Air Sampling Part III
In performing air sampling in the field, the first step is to assemble a sampling train consisting of a calibrated personal sampling pump connected by...
Yes, Even You Can Do Industrial Hygiene Air Sampling Part II
In part one of this series (May 2003), we explained the need for personal sampling, reviewed passive monitors and personal sampling pumps, and examined...
Yes, Even You Can Do Industrial Hygiene Air Sampling
You don't have to be a certified industrial hygienist to do personal air sampling." That's what I've told hundreds of participants in introductory industrial...
Where Do You Set the Standard?
Is there an instance when following an OSHA standard can be hazardous to workers' health? Experts say that may be the case when it comes to occupational...
Smart Sampling
Reflecting on his active practice as an industrial hygienist in the early "70s and "80s, Steve Levine, CIH, professor of industrial hygiene at the University...
