Indoor Environmental Quality Committee
The mission of the committee is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas and information about indoor environmental quality and to participate in the development and analysis of related technological and regulatory issues.
Goals and Objectives
Goal: Assemble, evaluate, and disseminate to occupational and environmental health professionals information relevant to environmental quality in occupied indoor locations, including nonoccupational uses.
Objective #1: Discuss and act upon indoor air quality issues.
Strategies:
- Designate specific members to track and report on identified issues.
- Respond to AIHA Board requests to address specific issues.
- Meet at the AIHce and at other appropriate times.
- Solicit papers; organize sessions; and provide session arrangers, chairs, and monitors for the AIHce.
- Prepare guidelines for publication on limits for chemical and physical agents that will provide individuals occupying the buildings freedom from distracting odors, discomfort, and health effects.
- Identify, evaluate, and comment on monitoring techniques for the major agents of concern.
- Identify building, and ventilation system designs that cause unacceptable environments and designs that can be used to correct problems and protect individuals.
Objective #2: Provide education and training on indoor air quality.
Strategy: Develop new PDCs and keep existing PDCs up to date.
Goal: Actively participate in identifying and responding to indoor air quality issues.
Objective #3: Identify, evaluate, and comment on proposed legislation, regulations, and standards affecting indoor air quality.
Strategies:
- Monitor and report on relevant activities by rule-making organizations.
- Participate in the development of standards by organizations such as the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and NIOSH.
- Develop and recommend positions to the AIHA Board.
Project Teams
Project Team 1 - Asbestos
Project Team Leader: Stu Salot
Project Team 1 Members:
Jim Lewis, CIH, CSP
Andy Oberta, MPH, CIH
Sheldon Rabinovitz, PhD, CIH
Fred Boelter, CIH, PE
Dale Walsh, CIH, CSP, CEM
John Kominsky, CIH, CSP, CHMM, ROH
Project Team 2 - Emergining IEQ Issues
Project Team Leader: John Martyny, PhD, CIH
Project Team 3 - International Affairs
Project Team Leader: William Hoychuk, CIH, CSP
Project Team 3 Members:
Lan Chi Nguyen, CIH, CSP
Don Weekes, CIH, CSP
Gil Cormier, CIH, CSP
Jeff Hicks, CIH
Brad Prezant, MSPH, CIH, CPE
Neil Zimmerman, PhD, PE, CIH
William Kerbel, CIH
Ed Light, CIH
Project Team 4 - Lead
Project Team Leader: Geoff Braybrooke, PEng, CIH
Project Team 4 Members:
Steve Hays, CIH, PE, QEP
Bill Ewing, CIH
Warren Friedman, PhD, CIH
Chris DePasquale, MPH, CIH
Project Team 5 - Liaison
Project Team Leader: David Kahane, CIH
Project Team 5 Members
Lisa Rogers, CIE, CIAQP
Bruce Miller, CIH
Steve Hays, CIH, PE, QEP
John Tiffany
Project Team 6 - Microbial Growth in Buildings
Project Team Leader: Brad Prezant, MSPH, CIH, CPE
Project Team 6 Members
Lan Chi Nguyen, CIH, CSP
Don Weekes, CIH, CSP
Phil Morey, PhD, CIH
Chin Yang, PhD
Project Team 7 - Publications
Project Team Leader: John Dobby, CIH, CSP and Michael Russe, MS, CIH, CPEA
Project Team 7 Members
David Abrams, CIH
Melissa Cheszek-Ling, CIH
Mike Russell, MS, CIH, CPEA
Catherine Bobenhausen, CIH, CSP, LEED
Ellen Gundeson, CIH, CSP
Ralph Froelich, CIH, CSP, QEP
Project Team 8 - Regulatory Affairs
Project Team Leader: Ralph Froelich, CIH, CSP, QEP
Conference
Lila Albin, PhD (Session Arranger)
Members
Robert Miller, CIH, CSE
Joseph Coco, CIH, RS
Jenny Wiest, CIH
Ken Roberts, CIH, CSP
Bruce Miller, CIH
Robert Hutzel, CIH, CSP
Training
David Abrams (PDC Reviewer)
Members
Robert Miller, CIH, CSE
Dan Hurley, CSP, ARM
Paul Ellringer, CIH, MPH
Kevin Aikman, CIH
Barb Epstien, CIH, MPH
Melissa Cheszek-Ling, CIH
Paul Buckmaster Jr., MS, CIH, CIAQP, CIEC
Staff Liaison: Angela Oler