AIHA - American Industrial Hygiene Association

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

NIOSH DREAM Workshop

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 Blog

All 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	Ted Zellers (University of Michigan)
Application of MEMs Sensors Currently Under Development to Direct Measurement Instrumentation	Jay Snyder (NIOSH)

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	Kevin Ashley (NIOSH)
Surface Sampling/Biomonitoring - Current NIOSH Efforts	John Snawder

Summary Sessions

Gases and Vapors
Aerosols
Ergonomics
Noise
Radiation
Surface Sampling and Biomonitoring