FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  

Release No. SPR-08-213-01   

Peter O’Neil, AIHA Executive Office
(703) 846-0760; poneil@aiha.org 
      
Melissa Hurley, AIHA Communications
(703) 846-0740; mhurley@aiha.org

AIHA Updates Preamble to the Member Ethical Principles

FAIRFAX, VA (February 13, 2008) — The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) has updated the preamble to the Member Ethical Principles to reinforce the focus on the application of sound scientific principles and protecting workers’ health.

AIHA is dedicated to the promotion of healthy and safe environments by advancing the science, principles, practice, and value of industrial hygiene and occupational and environmental health and safety. AIHA members are expected to give priority to health and safety interests related to protecting workers and to act in a manner that promotes sound scientific principles and integrity and that is consistent with accepted moral, ethical, and legal standards.

AIHA, AIHA’s Academy of Industrial Hygiene (AIH), the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH), and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH®) have jointly shared a Code of Ethics since the mid-1980s. In 1995 and 2006, the four societies worked together to update the Code. In 1996, the Joint Industrial Hygiene Ethics Education Committee (JIHEEC) was formed with representatives from each of the societies to promote ethics education. JIHEEC has served the profession by bringing attention to ethical dilemmas facing industrial hygiene, while also serving as a sounding board for ethical challenges facing the profession.

For more information and to view the expanded preamble to the Member Ethical Principles, please visit http://www.aiha.org/Content/AboutAIHA/newethicalprinciples.htm. For questions regarding the expanded preamble, please contact Peter O’Neil, AIHA’s assistant executive director, at (703) 846-0760 or poneil@aiha.org.

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Founded in 1939, the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) is the premier association of occupational and environmental health and safety professionals. AIHA’s 10,600 members play a crucial role on the front line of worker health and safety every day. Members represent a cross-section of industry, private business, labor, government, and academia. For more information, go to www.aiha.org.