International Safety: European Organizations Work to Promote Safe Workplaces
Nine pan-European and multinational organizations have signed up to be part of the first wave of official partners of Healthy Workplaces, a campaign organized by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) that focuses on the evaluation of health and safety risks and aims at reducing work-related accidents and illnesses. ...
“Clean” Nanoscale Production Not Always a Reality
New research published in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology shows that environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the processes used to manufacture them. The studies highlight the need for improved efficiency in nanoscale material manufacturing to reduce energy use, emissions, solid waste and the use of toxic input materials....
AIHA Executive Director Departs, New Director Hired
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) announced Oct. 27 that Steven H. Davis, CAE, IOM, will depart AIHA on March 31, 2009, after 11 years of service to the organization, the last 6 as executive director....
OSHA, AIHA Renew Alliance
Employers and employees will receive valuable workplace safety and health information and training resources on general industry, construction and emergency response issues through a renewed alliance signed Oct. 27 between OSHA and the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)....
BLS Releases 2007 Workplace Injury and Illness Rates
The rate of workplace injuries and illnesses in private industry declined in 2007 for the sixth consecutive year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported. Nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses fell from 4.4 cases per 100 workers in 2006 to 4.2 cases in 2007....
MSHA Announces Initiative to Bolster Mine Safety
MSHA recently unveiled the Safety Targets Training Program, a new safety initiative designed to highlight and eliminate the leading causes of mine fatalities in the 21st century. ...
NSC Supports Uniform Injury Data Collection System
The National Safety Council (NSC) announced support for national use of external cause of injury coding (E-codes) to capture injury-related, off-the-job hospital admission data....
AIHA Announces Academy of Industrial Hygiene Election Results
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) recently announced the results of the 2008 election for the Academy of Industrial Hygiene Council, which works to provide leadership in advancing the professional field of industrial hygiene....
Stakeholders Weigh In On DOL Risk Assessment Rule
The Department of Labor’s (DOL) controversial risk assessment proposal has prompted a flurry of comments from safety and labor stakeholders, including the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), which announced its support of the proposal in a move that conflicts with several organizations that openly oppose it. ...
Are Manufacturer's Recommendations the Best Solution?
Ive spent more than 35 years in safety, first as a compliance officer with Maryland OSHA, then as independent consultant. My work has given me the opportunity...
TSS Develops Thermal Spray PPE Guidelines
It is the belief of the Thermal Spray Society Safety Committee that every person is entitled to work in a safe and healthful environment, said committee...
Howards Term as NIOSH Director Ends July 14
Current NIOSH Associate Director Christine Branche, Ph.D., will serve as acting director until a new director is named. According to CDC, Howard has agreed...
Which OSHA Requirement Would You Toss?
By keeping this requirement in place, OSHA squanders employer industrial hygiene (IH) and safety resources on an effort that has questionable practical...
The Great MSDS Hoax
In theory, MSDSs provide users with information regarding hazardous substances and recommended safety precautions. While the concept behind these documents is good, my experience suggests that the information often is too vague or limited, making MSDSs amount to nothing more than a tragic hoax. ...
AIHce: Placing a Value on Industrial Hygiene
The study was a multi-phase effort that resulted in a number of findings about IH and its relationship to the business process. The study debatably is...
AIHce: Occupational Health Impact of the World Trade Center Disaster: Lessons Learned
Featured general session speaker Robin Herbert, M.D., director, World Trade Center (WTC) Medical Monitoring Program Data and Coordination Center, Mount...
Mobile Phones: Are They More Dangerous Than Smoking?
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, according to a study by Dr. Vini Khurana, a neurosurgeon and award-winning cancer expert,...
AIHce: The IH Value Proposition
Tom Grumbles, manager, Product Safety and Occupational Health for Sasol North America Inc., introduced the Value of the Profession Study, which was sponsored...
AIHce: Futurist Jeremy Rifkin and the Future of Work
Futurist Jerry Rifkin, president of the Foundation or Economic Trends in Washington, D.C., painted a bleak picture of the future of the world unless almost...
Protecting Nanotech Workers from Health Risks
Companies currently involved with nanotechnology are faced with the dilemma of balancing a desire to expand a potentially bountiful technology with limited...
Judge Rules in Favor of ACGIH in TLV Lawsuit
In a summary judgment ruling issued on May 6, a federal judge in the United States District Court in Macon, Ga., dismissed the last of four counts in...
A Worker's Worldview
Another way of understanding culture is to look at it as how a person, social group or organization views the world as opposed to how the view is handed...
AIHA Calls for Howards Reappointment as NIOSH Director
In a letter to the Honorable Michael Leavitt, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, AIHA President Donald Hart urged him not to delay...
Young Leaders in Industrial Hygiene
Are good leaders born, or are they made? Merriam-Websters online dictionary defines a leader as a person who has commanding authority or influence. I...
Laundering Socks with Nano Particles Possible Health, Environmental Risk
Researchers Paul Westerhoff and Troy Benn hypothesized in their report, Fate and transport of ionic and nanoparticle silver released from commercially...
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