IAC Goals


Goal: Establish a resource for organizations, groups, and individuals outside the United States requesting assistance from AIHA on organizational, professional, or technical matters.

Objective #1: Promote the development of organizations outside the United States in order to advance industrial and environmental hygiene throughout the world.

Strategies:

Develop a contact list of groups and individuals who are considering establishing an organization within their country or region. This list could be shared with other practitioners and groups within the region or adjacent regions.

Communicate the goals and objectives of the committee to the contacts.
Provide materials and find adequate funding as needed.

Provide guidelines for developing a local/national professional association in other parts of the world.

Objective #2: Provide outside organizations, groups, and individuals (upon request) with technical contacts to assist in key technical issues in industrial hygiene.

Strategies:

Establish a resource contact list made up of AIHA committee members and other members with international experience who could be used, upon request, to respond to issues raised by organizations outside the United States.

Ensure appropriate contact and follow-up are made.

Establish a resource list of key individuals who live and work outside the United States and who could provide advice on technical issues.

Goal: Develop mechanisms to increase international awareness of industrial and environmental hygiene practitioners in the United States and our counterparts in other nations.

Objective #3: Encourage open and frank communication between AIHA members, officers, and staff with interested parties outside the United States on topics relating to the preservation of occupational health and safety throughout the world.

Strategies:

Explore issues and projects where AIHA members and interested parties outside the United States can collaborate and serve the best interest of the general public.

Solicit papers for the AIHce and organize either a platform or roundtable session at each AIHce to encourage dialogue and international participation.

Consider the development of a white paper to inform AIHA members and government representatives who will be developing the specific terms of interpretation regarding the North American Free Trade Agreement of the potential impact of the agreement on the occupational health and safety conditions in Central America.

Objective #4: Develop and maintain contacts with U.S. and international trade negotiating groups to influence free trade and tariff negotiations to ensure harmonization in laws and practices that protect the health and well-being of working men and women in North America.

Goal: Explore the establishment of a voluntary International Industrial Hygiene Management and Assistance Corps that would make available to local or regional organizations pro bono industrial hygiene services to improve the practice of hygiene and safety in developing countries.

Objective #5: Begin the dialogue on creating an international corps for professionals whose service in developing countries could improve the practice of industrial hygiene in developing countries.