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AIHA Co-Sponsors D.R.E.A.M. Workshop
NIOSH is holding the Direct Reading Exposure Assessment Methods (D.R.E.A.M.) Workshop in Washington, D.C., November 13-14, at the Hilton Crystal City at Washington Reagan National Airport. AIHA is a co-sponsor of this event.
The workshop will gather stakeholder input from academia, labor, management, developers, government agencies, and manufacturers on the research needs in the area of direct reading methods for assessing occupational exposures. It is open to the public and will be attended by invited experts, invited stakeholders, and other interested registrants. The workshop will discuss the critical research needs of direct reading methods. Only 230 participants may attend the workshop.
Information on how you can attend is available online.
JOEH Is Looking for an Editor
The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, published monthly by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists and the American Industrial Hygiene Association, is seeking to fill the position of executive column editor.
JOEH publishes peer reviewed research as well as non-peer reviewed columns in five subject areas: OSHA Compliance; Engineering Case Reports; Analytical Performance Criteria; Ergonomics; and Industrial Hygiene Case Studies. Each column has a column editor and reports current investigations, new developments, and other matters of interest.
The executive column editor will review proposed columns for content appropriate to the field, clarity of writing, and timeliness of the issue addressed. The executive column editor also will solicit new columns, establish a book review column, and recruit column editors as necessary. The work load is estimated to be about 8 hours per week and pays $21,587 annually. The position reports to the editor in chief.
Send resume and a brief qualifications statement to: Michael S. Morgan, ScD, CIH, at the University of Washington — mmorgan@u.washington.edu.
Value of the Profession Information Online
AIHA is introducing exciting new research findings, including an approach that enables industrial hygienists to demonstrate that, by protecting the health of workers and the community, they simultaneously safeguard an organization’s license to operate and provide competitive business advantage.
The findings and the new AIHA Strategy to Demonstrate the Value of Industrial Hygiene are available now and can be used by industrial hygienists to make the value proposition for IH in their own workplaces.
The research included case studies featuring AIHA members and member organizations that demonstrated that significant IH value contributions can result from improving business and engineering design processes, increasing efficiency, and reducing or eliminating worker exposures.