AIHA and NIOSH formed a partnership to use collaborative efforts and expertise to advance the protection of workers, promote best practices, and encourage employers to develop and utilize occupational health and safety management systems and effective prevention strategies and technologies. Together, both organizations agreed to continue to work cooperatively and provide outreach, communication, and professional development opportunities.
AIHA-NIOSH Partnership Document
In a Leadership Perspective article in the January 2011 Synergist, AIHA-NIOSH partnership participants and colleagues presented the logic for expanding the historical industrial hygiene decision-making framework to become “Anticipate, Recognize, Evaluate, Control, and Confirm.” The concept of “confirm” has always been implicit in the framework, and it is clearly implicit in the discussion and pictorials contained in the AIHA® Strategy for Assessing and Managing Occupational Exposures. The new framework makes it explicit. As noted in the article, no formal mechanism is required to make ARECC an integral part of our everyday practice.
Graphic adapted from Hoover, M.D., T. Armstrong, T. Blodgett, A.K. Fleeger, P.W. Logan, B. McArthur, and P.J. Middendorf: Confirming Our Industrial Hygiene Decision-Making Framework, The Synergist, 22(1): 10, 2011.
In addition, opportunities are being sought to increase awareness and applications of the ARECC framework. If you can help in any way, please contact the author group via email or at (304) 285-6374.
NIOSH held the Direct Reading Exposure Assessment Methods (D.R.E.A.M.) Workshop in Washington, D.C., November 13-14, 2008, at the Hilton Crystal City at Washington Reagan National Airport. The workshop was co-sponsored by AIHA. The presentations from those sessions are posted here for your review and download.
The meeting gathered subject matter experts, stakeholders and other interested parties from the public and private sectors to provide input into research needs. The workshop was a critical part of the NIOSH effort to prevent disease and injury to workers by supporting research, promoting best practices, describing and communicating effective policies, and engaging in productive partnerships.DREAM Workshop BlogAll available presentations are in PDF format.
General Session
Welcome
Christine Branche (NIOSH)
Introductory Remarks
John Howard
Overview of Workshop
David Weissman (NIOSH)
Radiation Detection in the 21st Century: Basics, Sources, Applications, Hazards and Challenges
Part 1
Part 2
Morgan Cox (IEC)
Selection of DRMs and What They Meant to the Worker
Jon Volkwein (NIOSH)Dennis O’Dell (UMWA)
Validation of DRMs (and How Not to Validate Them)
Matthew Magnuson (EPA)
Integration of Activity Through Position
Peng-Yau Wang (National Central University, Taiwan)
DRMs as Tools for IH Trouble Shooting and Exposure Assessment
William Heitbrink (University of Iowa)
How to Collect DRM Data Based on Use
Stephen Rappaport (University of California, Berkeley)
Session 1: Gases and Vapors
Jay Snyder (NIOSH)
Ted Zellers (University of Michigan)
Jason Ham (NIOSH)
Direct Reading Instruments and OSHA
Dean Lillquist, (OSHA Salt Lake Technical Center)
Direct Reading Exposure Assessment Methods (DREAM): A Large Chemical Producer's Perspective
Mark Spence (Dow Chemical)
Direct Reading Exposure Assessment Methods for Isocyanates: Current Options and Future Needs
Mark Spence (International Isocyanate Institute)
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures
Rebecca Blackmon (Technical Support Working Group)
Development of the Micro Gas Chromatograph
Application of MEMs Sensors Currently Under Development to Direct Measurement Instrumentation
Session 2: Aerosols
Martin Harper (NIOSH)
Pam Susi (CPWR)
CEN Draft Technical Report - Guide for the Use of Direct-Reading Instruments for Aerosol Monitoring
David Mark (Health & Safety Laboratory, UK)
The Development of a Personal Dust Monitor for Coal Mines
Jon Volkwein (NIOSH)
Evaluating Concentration of Aerosol Particles in Occupational Hygiene Using Optical Particle Counters
Peter Görner (INRS, France)
Real-time Needs for Beryllium Particle Detection
Mike Brisson (SRS)
Reducing Exposures to Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM) Using Direct-reading Instruments
Jim Noll (NIOSH)
BCOA-UMWA Consensus Principles (selected): Respirable Dust Monitoring with (or without) the PDM
Jim Weeks
Session 3: Ergonomics and Vibration
Brian Lowe (NIOSH)
Rob Radwin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Direct Measurement of Force Exposure in Hand Tool Use
Raymond McGorry (Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety)
Session 4: Noise
Chuck Kardous (NIOSH)
Rob Brauch (Larson Davis)
John Earshen (Angevine Acoustical Consultants, Inc.)
Noise Exposure Metrics
John Earshen
A Historical Perspective on the Evaluation, Standardization and Certification of Personal Noise Dosimeters
John Seiler (USDOL – MSHA)
Direct-Reading Noise Exposre Assessment Methods: Noise Exposure Instrumentation
Robert G. Brauch
Direct-Reading Exposure Assessment Methods
Kris Chesky (Texas Center for Music and Medicine)
Session 5: Radiation
Jeri Anderson and Mark Hoover (NIOSH)
Cynthia Jones (NRC)
Critical Issues for Direct-Reading Exposure Assessment Methods in the Pharmaceutical Industry (Not Available)
Mark Maiello (Wyeth Research)
Session 6 - Surface Sampling/Biomonitoring
John Snawder (NIOSH)Matthew Magnuson (EPA)
Breath Tests for Disease and Toxic Exposures
Michael Philips (Menssana Research, Inc.)
Nanotechnology-based Electrochemical Sensors for Biomonitoring Chemical Exposures
Charles Timchalk (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Breath
Surface Sampling of Bacillus Spores
Jayne Morrow (NIST)
Next-Generation Metal Analyzers Based on Nonomaterials for Biomonitoring and Environmental Monitoring
Wassana Yantasee (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Surface Sampling and Analysis: Examples from NIOSH Efforts
Kevin Ashley (NIOSH)
Standardized Surface Sampling Methods for Metals
Surface Sampling/Biomonitoring - Current NIOSH Efforts
John Snawder
Summary Sessions
Gases and VaporsAerosolsErgonomicsNoiseRadiationSurface Sampling and Biomonitoring