Mid-America Local Section

Welcome to the Mid-America local section homepage. Serving members in eastern Kansas and western Missouri.

About AIHA

AIHA is the essential source for information on Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety issues. AIHA is an organization of professional members dedicated to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of environmental factors arising in or from the workplace that may result in injury, illness, impairment, or affect the well-being of workers and members of the community.

Message from the President

August 2009 President’s Message

Welcome back to the 2009-2010 membership year of the Mid America AIHA local section.  New local section leadership includes Greg Lemke as President-Elect, John McCall as Treasurer, Susan Flappan as Secretary, and Tonyea Inglis as Board member.  Returning Board members include Eric Wenger and Steve Ratliff.

I would like to give a big Thanks to John Zey for the great job he did last year leading this local section.  He will continue to contribute for another year as Past President.  I also want to thank Saundra Harris for the outstanding job performing the duties of Treasurer for the past 2 years.  She was an excellent steward for the Local Section funds.

As a reminder, the goals of the Mid America AIHA Local Section are:

·         To promote the study, evaluation, and control of environmental stresses arising in, or from the work place or its products, in relation to the health or well-being of workers and the public.

·         To promote the profession through the encouragement of interest within, and cooperation with governmental, industrial, educational, and other professional bodies.

·         To increase the knowledge of occupational and environmental health through interchange and dissemination of information, and to bring together persons interested in the various phases of industrial and environmental health.

The first meeting will be a joint meeting with the Heart of America ASSE chapter on September 14 with guest speaker Richard Fairfax who is the OSHA Director of Enforcement. 

For those members who are Certified Industrial Hygienists, there is a new 2010 requirement for CM points in the area of “ethics”.  The Local Section has purchased the CD for the AIHA Distance Learning Program “Professional Ethics, Doing What is Right in the Practice of Industrial Hygiene” that was presented live on August 4, 2009.    This CD will be presented during a meeting on September 29, 2009.  The test and the $35 application fee for 0.33 CM points are due on October 5.

Additional topics being considered are Nanoparticle Safety, Expert Testimony, Crisis Communication, and a IH Sampling Methods workshop.

Please feel free to contact me (525-4251 evenings) if you have suggestions for meeting topics, speakers, tours, or other activities that can promote Industrial Hygiene as a profession.

Mid America AIHA Local Section President
Vicki Bender, CIH