The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) announced on June 13 that it will be accepting proposals for professional development courses (PDCs) to be held Saturday and Sunday, May 30-June 1, 2009, in conjunction with the 2009 American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Expo (AIHce) in Toronto. The deadline for submissions is Aug. 15, 2008.
EPA has not decided how to use all the authorities or tools available to it to achieve the Act's goals, and, meanwhile, it has not been reporting program results in relation to homes at risk in its performance reporting.
”Dr. Jim Ramsay epitomizes the work ethic, the professionalism, and the spirit of contribution and cooperation necessary for educators to play in the field of safety,” said Mark A. Friend, Ed.D., CSP, of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, who nominated the winner.
"When companies are planning major strategic activities, the consideration of environmental risk remains the exception rather than the rule," according to Karl Russek, senior VP for ACE Environmental Risk.
Sponsored by AIHA's Academy of Industrial Hygiene, PCIH 2008 attendees can earn up to 6 CM points by attending the event's pre-conference symposium on risk assessment and its many technical sessions focusing on manganese, global supply chain performance, nanotechnology, heat stress, and more.
At the 2008 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition, which ended June 5, the American Industrial Hygiene Association implemented many green initiatives in the city of Minneapolis.
“Improving communication is our goal,” said Warren K. Brown, CSP, ARM, CSHM, now poised to become the society’s 94th president.
The sessions are finished, the networking over, and the traveling at an end. Take a short respite, you've earned it. But don't take too long, because soon it will be time to head to Toronto for next year's event.
"We’re talking about more than just a paper program. It’s the kind of program that can reduce worker’s comp costs and illnesses and injuries, making the companies more productive and more competitive,” said OSHA chief Edwin G. Foulke today.
An emeritus professional member and ASSE fellow, Lawrence E. Oldendorf has volunteered in the society’s programs for more than 40 years.
On only the second official day of the annual event, the society has announced it has broken records for both turnout and exhibition space sold.
EPA is amending the F019 listing to facilitate the use of aluminum in automobiles, light trucks, and utility vehicles.
Evaluations have been tallied for more than 84 weekend professional development courses (PDC) offered at the 2008 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition (AIHce) in Minneapolis. Participants gave the following 10 courses the highest ratings overall.
Correspondent Scott Pelley's segment on the problem of dust explosions will include interviews of former CSB Chair Carolyn Merritt and OSHA chief Edwin Foulke Jr. This CSB photo shows the damaged Imperial Sugar plant.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has reached an agreement with 3M Co. on alleged clean-air violations at the company's Abrasive Systems Division at 10746 Innovation Road, Cottage Grove, Minn.
The department began studying Yucca Mountain in 1978 to determine whether it would be suitable for the nation's first long-term geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
The site offers ways to protect hurricane relief workers from biological hazards as well as other hazards associated with severe weather cleanup and eco-remediation efforts, such as mold and infectious diseases, among other information.
The director of a medical monitoring program for non-NYC responders to the 9/11 attacks said both respiratory and psychological symptoms have not lessened.
About two years in the making, the study conducted by ORC Worldwide is a tool the nation's roughly 12,000 industrial hygienists can use to strengthen their organizations and their own contributions.
Over the next five years, EPA estimates the proposed standards to reduce the combined emissions of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 42,000 tons per year.