Industrial Hygiene News
Research Examines the Financial, Health Costs of Coal Mining
The costs of illness and premature deaths in Appalachia related to coal mining far outweigh economic benefits the industry brings to the region, said Michael Hendryx, Ph.D...
OSHA Launches Regional Program to Reduce Lead Exposure in the Workplace
The OSHA office in Kansas City, Mo., announced a special regional emphasis program aimed at reducing occupational exposure to lead...
AIHA Comments on Protecting America’s Workers Act
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) recently released comments on HR 2067, Protecting America’s Workers Act, a bill amending the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970 that is sponsored by Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey, chairwoman of the Committee on Education and Labor’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections....
AIHce: The Injury/Illness Management Audit
Peter Greaney, M.D., identified two valuable lessons he has learned in his career as an occupational consultant: First, there are a lot of trivial injuries, and secondly, injured employees who return to work always do better physically and mentally than those who don't....
AIHce: Global EHS Issues of Nanotechnology
More research and information sharing is needed to better understand nanotechnology hazards, said Kristen Kulinowski, Ph.D., in her keynote presentation June 3 at AIHce, where she unveiled a new wiki guide designed to help disseminate information about nanotechnology hazards in the occupational setting....
AIHce: Sustainable Development Beyond Borders
Sustainable development is more than a greening trend and instead reflects the core ways of making decisions, according to keynote speaker Edward L. Quevedo, JD, at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce) in Toronto....
AIHce: Communicating Risk and Effective Crisis Communications
Session speaker Pam Ferrante, CSP, CHMM, discussed key elements of effective crisis and risk communication at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce) ...
Ergonomics: Office Chair Design and the Potential Impact on Heart Rate
According to research presented at the 2009 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo, your office chair can affect more than your posture or comfort – it also might lower your heart rate....
AIHce: Predicting the Future by Creating It
What do bionic body parts, moon-roving robots, space tourists and industrial hygiene have in common? According to AIHce keynote speaker Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., the answer is simple: revolution through incentive competition....
AIHce: Doubt Is Their Product: Manufactured Uncertainty and Public Health
David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, a front-runner in the race to head OSHA, offered the Jeffrey S. Lee Lecture on the opening day of the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo in Toronto this week...
AIHce: AIHA, ACGIH Plan New Strategic Alliance
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) announced plans to form a new strategic alliance ...
AIHce: Discoveries Beyond Borders
Thousands of industrial hygiene and environmental health and safety professionals from around the globe double-checked their passports in preparation to travel to Toronto for the 2009 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce). ...
OSHA cites Cambridge, Mass., Contractor For Confined Space Hazards
OSHA has cited a Cambridge, Mass., contractor for alleged willful and serious violations of safety and health standards ...
Former EPA Official Calls For New Environmental and Consumer Protection Agency
In a new report, former EPA official J. Clarence (Terry) Davies suggests existing health and safety agencies are unable to cope with the risk assessment, standard setting and oversight challenges of advancing nanotechnology...
CGA Announces 2008 Safety Award Winners
The Compressed Gas Association (CGA) recently announced its 2008 Safety Award winners...
Industrial Hygienists Urge Businesses to Prepare for a Pandemic Now
When health experts recently raised the threat level of the swine flu to five, indicating "a strong signal that a pandemic is imminent," some U.S. businesses were just beginning to consider ways to prepare for the potential health, social and economic impact of a flu pandemic...
Testing, Testing: Revalidating the CIH Exam, Re-Envisioning the IH Profession
When a panel of certified industrial hygienists met to discuss updating the CIH exam, they talked about a lot more than testing practices....
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.'...
Controlling and Removing Static Electricity During Confined Space Entry Ventilation
EHS professionals need a clear, well-defined 'how-to' standard on the proper procedures for controlling and safely removing electrostatic charges during confined space ventilation....
OSHA Initiates Rulemaking on Combustible Dust Hazards
OSHA will issue an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on combustible dust...
AIHA Asks OSHA to Lower Noise Exposure PEL
American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) President Lindsay E. Booher sent a letter to OSHA Acting Assistant Secretary Jordan Barab asking OSHA to lower the Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) for occupational noise...
OSHA Convenes Rulemaking Panel on Diacetyl Exposure
On April 28, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced that OSHA will convene a Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) panel May 5 on a draft proposed rule on occupational exposure to diacetyl and food flavorings containing diacetyl. ...
Safety with Sodium Hypochlorite
The Chlorine Institute Inc. (CI) has published an updated version of its online Sodium Hypochlorite Incompatibility Chart, which provides guidance to avoid accidental mixing of sodium hypochlorite (commonly known as bleach) that could lead to dangerous conditions....
New NIOSH Guidance Aims to Help Protect Health Care Workers from TB
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is offering new technical guidance for using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) systems to help protect health care workers who may have an occupational risk of tuberculosis (TB) infection. ...
AIHA Supports Combustible Dust Legislation, Offers Recommendations
In an April 2 letter to House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) stressed its support of HR 849, legislation that would compel OSHA to issue an interim and final combustible dust standard to help prevent deadly explosions....
