Established in 1980		March 2000

2000 Board President: Bill Collier, CIH Past Pres: Audrey Eng Pres. Elect: Ed Klinenberg, CIH, PhD Secretary: Amalia Neidhardt, MPH. IHIT Treasurer: Mark Cameron, CIH Directors: Rick Beall, CIH and Larry Bellani, CIH CIHC Representative: Ed Klinenberg ASSE LIAISON: Carol Barake, CIH

Message from the President The March Board meeting focused on a discussion of what professional development or training classes should be set for the next year. We believe that we will have some exciting, educational and innovative programs from you in 2000. Although all of the classes are in the process of development, this is what we have so far: Calibration Symposium on April 14, 2000. The program will include a review of calibration procedures of various pieces of industrial hygiene monitoring equipment. It will be held at McClellan Air Force Base. See the last page of the newsletter for details. How do the Lobbying efforts of the CIHC & Sacramento Advocacy work; and AB 1127 legislation changes (July 21)? Summer visit to the LLNL (August). OSHA: the good, the bad and the ugly probably in the late Fall. From the Treasurer: Mark Cameron reported that he had sent out dues notices. We will have approximately $5200.00 in the bank after collecting a significant portion of the member's dues for 2000. If you have not done so, please pay your dues as soon as possible. Special Note: If you are interested in being a board member or volunteer, we would like to hear from you. The new board members will take over in the month of June. This change was implemented due to a request from our parent association; to ensure that election cycles from of all local sections matched the national one. Many of the people who are currently on the board will not be able to continue. We have had a few volunteers. We need your help!!!!!! Bill Collier

National News

Our National Board Coordinator is Monty Herr. You can reach Monty at Lawrence Livermore Labs:
	LLNL-L379 PO Box 808 Livermore, CA 94551 (925)422-8744 (925)422-5176 FAX e-mail: herr2@llnl.gov

CALIFORNIA UPDATE

Visit our Website at: http://www.AIHA1.org/Sections/SVS/

Save a Tree. Get your newsletter off the web or by email. The board has recommended that newsletters be sent by electronic means when available. If you have a new email address please forward that information to Rocky Rockswold at rockyone@pacbell.net

CIHC Report - Steve Smith

One bill you maybe interested in is a safety engineer title protection bill (AB 2505) that appears to be patterned after a national ASSE model for title protection. There are over 30 other bills that we will also review in order to determine if CIHC needs to support, oppose, or watch this legislative session. If you are interested in seeing a copy of AB 2505 or any of the other bills we are reviewing, please visit the CIHC website at http://www.sacadvocacy.com/cihc/cihc.html.

Last fall, I updated you on an effort to get the state legislator that represents you to be aware of our profession and what concerns us. This Grassroots Legislative Outreach effort is still going on and I encourage you to get involved. To help educate our legislators, a PowerPoint presentation was developed entitled: What is an Industrial Hygienist? (Which you can also review on the CIHC website) If you have already met your legislator or would like to volunteer to attend such a meeting please contact our section's coordinator, Bill Collier at 707-446-4764 or by e-mail at kmcdbc@earthlink.net.

The 1999 legislative year produced a number of bills that could potentially impact our profession or relate to Industrial Hygiene. The CIHC website has a complete report on the final status of all the 1999 legislation that passed, including AB 1127 that reformed the Cal/OSHA program.

If you have any questions or need more detailed information on CIHC or the legislation being followed please contact your representatives: Steve Smith (274-5730) or Ed Klinenberg (643-0311).

Save a Tree. Get your newsletter off the web or by email or fax. The board has recommended that newsletters be sent by electronic means when available. If you have a new email address please forward that information to Rocky Rockswold. There are quite of number of members who have e-mail returned, please up date this. It saves us money, stamps and time and lots of time.

CIHC Update

Ed Klinenberg, Ph.D., CIH 643-0311 ext. 342 klinenberg@juno.com Steve Smith, CIH 916-322-3640 ssmith@hq.dir.ca.gov

Visit their web site at: http://www.sacadvocacy.com/cihc/cihc.html with the user name: cihc passcode: ***** [see your last printed newsletter for the passcode or contact (if you are a member) ebartosh@bartosh.com]

Alternate CIHC Representative

ARTICLES FROM OUR MEMBERS

Special News - We have a local section member running for the Board of the National AIHA. See attached letter from Betty Taylor.

We Wish Betty Taylor lots of luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BALLOT FORM

To raise our dues, according to our bylaws, we have to vote. If over 50% of our members vote to increase the dues we will change our bylaws to indicate that our annual dues are now $25.

In truth the only reason we are raising our dues is that the CIHC has raise it dues/members to $25.00. We pass all of our dues on to CIHC. We have been able to consistently cover the cost of the SVS-AIHA out of the profits of our symposiums or lunch meetings and haven't needed to raise the dues. To my knowledge the dues have not been raised since 1980. See Article IX, Section 2.

If you are in favor of raising the dues to $25.00 check YES below. If not, check NO.

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FAX to: 707-447-6385

(or you may use this web form to e-mail your ballot)

Vote to raise dues to $25.00 YES    NO Name: Address Phone REPLY TO Email Address (loginname@domain.name): (REQUIRED) Note: Be sure to use your complete email address (e.g., login_name@domain.name)

Jobs Page

UC Davis has a Health and Safety position open. EH&S Specialist $3,558.33 - $5,691.67/Mo. Final Filing Date 03-28-00. Duties: general health and safety including radiation, biological and chemical safety. For general job information and how to apply: http://hr.ucdavis.edu/emp/eob.htm For details of the job: http://hr.ucdavis.edu/emp/jmvls/1315.htm

CalTrans has an Associate Industrial Hygienist position open. Salary: $4,244.00 - $5,116.00. Posted on 2/16/2000. Position Number- 045 - 3856 - XXX, Located in Sacramento.

 Contact Name/Phone
 TRANSPORTATION
 1801 30TH STREET MS 9-5/12F
 SACRAMENTO, 95816
 SHARLIE E. KESSLER 
 916-227-8742 CALNET 498-8742 or Audrey Eng 916-227-8200.

Upcoming Activities

CA's Worker's Compensation System by Gary Archibald
Worker's compensation fraud, Investigation and Subrosa by Tammy Vallejo
Loss Analysis - Chuck Coppage
Injury Review Process - Mike Bradley
Subrogation - Mark Gibbons.

Go to www.mostsafety.com/asse.html for brochure and exact location. The PDC does include lunch

Local Section Activities

Statement from Betty Taylor

I am running for the Board of Directors of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). I would like to share some of my thoughts with you.

We have all witnessed the transformations in the profession of industrial hygiene over the past decade. For example, many IHs are now responsible for environmental compliance, safety, and other related areas. These changes have vastly expanded the need for education beyond the traditional areas. If elected, I will work to enhance the efforts of the AIHA in the area of professional development through expanded educational opportunities.

Jobs are being lost to downsizing, mergers, plant closings, and, most of all, outsourcing. While the AIHA, as an association, cannot affect these trends, I do believe that we can serve our members better by working to expand the roll of the AIHA as a provider of information about employment and business opportunities. The Association needs to ensure that it is the first place employers look for professionals in the areas of industrial hygiene, as well as safety, and environmental compliance.

In addition to the changes in employment, the Association has to continue to address the problem of encroachment of other professions, unrelated to safety and health, into our traditional roles in the workplace. Therefore, the Association needs to continue to advance title protection statutes in a large number of states. The AIHA has taken a very active roll; this must continue. If elected, I will support these efforts.

I feel that the Association must evolve to meet the needs and to serve the best interest of the majority its members. As the AIHA transforms and takes on a more global character, I believe that changes must be communicated to the members. I also believe that, as a Director, I will have a responsibility to ensure that the members of the AIHA have a voice in the decisions that are made.

If elected, I would work to improve communications with the Local Sections. The Local Sections are the major forums of the Association. They get "out the word" as well as provide feedback on potential problems as well as successes. Communication with Local Sections must be a two-way street. As a Board member, I will work to ensure that the voices of the Local Section's leaders and members are heard in Fairfax.

Finally, we should all be active in the promotion of good science through our work and our private lives. The AIHA should stand as a reminder that knowledge can be used for the good of all.

I do want your support in the upcoming election. I pledge to make sure that you have a voice in the AIHA. Please take the time to tell me what you think. You can reach me at btaylor@bartosh.com.

Betty

Betty has been a long time member of the Sacramento Valley Section and Past President. We should support her in this effort. It will ensure that we have a voice in the highest councils of the AIHA.

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It was first posted on March 16, 2000.