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April 30, 2009
Greetings Fellow Industrial Hygienists and Occupational Safety & Health Professionals!
As your Local AIHA President, I plan to direct our membership to public outreach, educational programs, and more beneficial steps towards our profession’s development, both in Industrial Hygiene, and in closely related fields.
For those of you who attended the March 11, 2009 AIHA-ASSE Joint Luncheon at George’s Neighborhood Grill, you heard Mr. Aaron Trippler from National AIHA speak on the happenings from Washington D.C., and heard his views about the new administration’s viewpoint. Mr. Trippler explained that there will be much more local involvement in the affairs of lawmaking, and this is where your input is most valuable for Indiana.
As a former Indiana OSHA Compliance Officer, I know firsthand that there are many factors for determining where the enforcement magnifying glass may be focused, be it Combustible Dust, Reproductive Hazard Risk Assessments, a Global Harmonization System, or a proposed Ergonomic Standard. In this Administration how are you going to keep yourself informed of upcoming changes to stay compliant?
This Local Indiana Chapter AIHA is aware that in today’s economic distress, we need to concentrate on what is truly important, maintain a healthful workforce, and position ourselves for those new and exotic technologies which may have new and exotic hazards, such as those anticipated from nanoparticle engineering.
To this end we need to focus on values that keep the Industrial Hygiene field alive and prosperous, keep ourselves not only personally well informed (and marketable), but viable and sought after as a value-added benefit to the organizations we support.
The goals we aspire to are:
1) educational programs for Industrial Hygiene professionals, students, and those who aspire to attain their CIH designation,
2) open venues to network with peers,
3) mechanisms for personal development,
4) ways to connect management and labor forces for the common effort to reduce occupational health risks, based upon unbiased evidence,
5) ways to increase awareness of the Industrial Hygiene profession though public outreach programs, and
6) ways to build careers in the Industrial Hygiene profession.
We must work together towards these goals via involvement from our membership, and connecting with other ancillary groups (law, environmental, safety, educational institutions, and business and labor constituents, to name a few). We must ensure that Industrial Hygienists are not only a distinctive and competent profession, but that we prepare the future generations to carry on our legacy, so they can properly anticipate, identify, evaluate, and control all types of health risk issues.
We need your help! You are invited to participate and contribute with your personal insights! Our board, luncheon, and dinner meetings are open to all members. (Not a member? Click on the "Join" tab and fill out an online application today.)
Have a safe, healthy and productive career!
Dan Flinta, CIH, CSP,
President
AIHA Local Indiana Chapter
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Also, mark your calendar for these upcoming events.
- Stay tuned for details after the AIHce
The AIHA Indiana Local Section is in search of speakers and presenters for the 2010 Indiana Safety & Health Conference & Exposition's Industrial Hygiene Track and for the 2009-2010 Year's Activities.
Anyone interested is encouraged to complete and submit one of the forms linked above. Please spread the word as this will assist us with an advanced agenda so that we can provide you more advanced notice of meetings in the future.
AIHA Indiana Section
PO Box 44143
Indianapolis, IN 46244-4143
For more information about the AIHA - Indiana Section, please e-mail
our President, Dan Flinta, CIH, CSP.
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