AIHA has two banner stands that are available to all local sections to display at their meetings and when they attend events on behalf of AIHA.
The banner stands measure 84” H X 39.8” W, weigh only 20 lbs, and are compact enough to fit in the trunk of a car! The banner stands can be fully extended and displayed on the floor.
AIHA will cover the cost to ship a banner stand to a local section along with requested supplemental materials. The local section will be responsible for the costs associated with shipping the banner stand back to AIHA. To reserve an AIHA banner stand, please contact AIHA's Local Section Relations.
Increase your local section meeting attendance by offering some type of technical session or professional development course in conjunction with a local section meeting. By doing so, the local section can request CM points through ABIH.
Did you know that the ABIH Board of Directors are assigned to liaison with AIHA's local sections? Connect with your assigned local section ABIH Director.
Local sections are encouraged to participate in convenient and cost-effective group training solutions through various Distance Learning course offerings, including Teleweb Virtual Seminars and Peter Sandman's Risk and Crisis Communication. Learn more.
Local Section Satellite Sites allows local sections to save big on registration fees for TeleWeb Virtual Seminars. Upon registration for a singe Local Section site, a local section can register an additional 4 satellite sites at $75USD each. This means in addition to the primary Local Section site registration (one location connection of phone and internet), you may register up to 4 more satellite sites at this deeply discounted rate.
During the AIHA Membership Renewal process, AIHA is willing to collect local section dues from national members. This is a free program offered to all of AIHA's local sections. AIHA will collect local section dues and transfer the funds monthly to the local section's bank account via Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT). To sign-up your local section, submit the EFT Agreement Form and EFT Set-Up Form to the Local Section Relations.
Ease local section administrative burdens by using AIHA's online survey system for any balloting needs, including upcoming officer elections or ammending bylaws. Local sections interested in using the online survey system should contact Local Section Relations.
The AIHA Local Action Media Tool Kit provides tools for local sections to enhance media visibility and promote the profession of industrial hygiene. These easy-to-use tools can help local sections plan local health and safety events, deliver speeches to students about industrial hygiene, and generate local media coverage about the profession.
The Local Section Council (LSC) purpose is to promote the continued growth and well-being of local sections and to be the liaison between sections and the AIHA Board. The LSC does not supplant the function of board coordinators for individual local section needs, but tries to fulfill collective needs that benefit all local sections. local sections student outreach guide.
A key local section activity includes reaching out to and involving students and early career professionals. A recent survey by the AIHA Student and Early Career Professionals Committee (SECP) found that many local sections conduct innovative outreach activities and are actively involved with students in their area. Read the survey results and learn best practices for increasing student and early career professional involvement within your local section.
AIHA has negotiated a deal with MemberClicks, an online membership management database, for all local sections. By incorporating the MemberClick System, your local section will be able to reduce some of the normal administrative burdens since the system incorporates the following functionality: membership management and recordkeeping, electronic balloting, manage event registration, develop newsletters, and track new member prospects. Upon activation and completion of training, local sections will be able to manage the database themselves with little to no assistance required from MemberClicks.
To learn more about MemberClicks, please contact our MemberClicks representative Mark Sedgley.
AIHA will offer a 15 percent discount on all member and non-member publication rates when orders are placed at, and up to two weeks following, a local section meeting. Simply contact AIHA and ask for order forms and publications catalogs.
In support of local section membership recruitment efforts, AIHA will provide local sections with a list of national AIHA members residing within the local section region. To request a list, contact Local Section Relations.
Aaron Trippler, Director of Government Affairs for AIHA
Want to know what's happening in Washington with occupational safety and health? Will the administration address OH & S issues. Learn this and more from Aaron Trippler, AIHA's Director of Government Affairs. To book, Aaron Trippler as a guest speaker for an upcoming local section meeting, please click here.Regional OSHA Representative
As part of the AIHA-OSHA alliance, a regional OSHA representative can present at your local section meeting. If interested, please contact Todd Briggs, Program Analyst for the AIHA-OSHA alliance activities.
Speaker's Bureau
Local sections leaders can recruit speakers to local section meetings using the Speaker's Bureau. Section leaders can use the list to request speakers based on a specific topic area. The list is actively growing and consists of members from various AIHA Volunteer Groups.
Local sections are eligible to have their own SharePoint site free-of-charge. SharePoint allows local sections the opportunity to store electronic files in one location. To learn more about the capabilities of SharePoint or to request a SharePoint site, contact Craig Sorrell.
Click to access the Local Section SharePoint portal.
Lead the way for a new IH community by reaching out to nearby colleges and universities and helping them form student local sections. Local sections are encouraged to sponsor at least one student local section.
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Local sections are encouraged to submit articles to The Synergist for publication. Articles can be short or long news items, depending on what you want to report. Photos are always a great addition to any story (or can even be submitted alone with caption information). Please note photos must be of a reproducible quality and need to be sent individually (not embedded in other files or documents). They need to be in a standard format such as tif, jpg or eps, and created at a resolution of at least 300 dpi or higher to achieve the best quality presentation. As a frame of reference for publication length, a full-page article is 750 words, a half-page item would be 375 words, and quarter-page pieces are 188 words. Any items we receive will run with the author name(s), which means we need to receive a short biography for all authors to run at the end of the item. This bio contact information needs to include job title and location as well as phone number and e-mail address. Sections can also advertise any upcoming local section meetings in The Synergist. All submissions should be sent to the Managing Editor.