Established in 1980		July 1998

Please join us for our ... 1999 Planning Meeting and Revised Respiratory Protection Standard at Andiamo's 3145 Folsom Blvd. Thursday, August 13, 11:30am - 2:30pm Directions to Andiamo's: From Business 80 take the N St. exit; turn right on Folsom Blvd. Andiamo's will be on your left. Parking lots are available in the rear. The price Is $20 for members with advance reservations, $25 at the door and non-members. Please make your reservations by calling Bill Collier at 567-4245 or fax: 567-4242 or e-mail. Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to Mark Cameron on his promotion to Sr. IH at the Dept. of Justice.

Please welcome our new members:

The River City student section,
Elizabeth Babcock, State of Calif., Corrections
Craig Burnett and Brick Mesman, National Technical Systems

Highlights from the June Meeting

If you have questions regarding this topic please call the Cal-OSHA Consultation office.

Mark Your Calendars!

1998 Meeting Planner
Aug 10	Board Meeting
Aug 13	Section Meeting 1999 and Beyond
Sept 17	SVS Annual Symposium
Oct 8	Section Meeting
Oct 16	CIHC Conference
Oct 16 - 19	CIHC Seminar at Sea
Dec 11	Holiday Meeting

Annual Symposium

We have already received some calls from interested presenters. If you would like speak or know someone who would like to speak at this year's symposium, please contact any one of the board members.

National News

• The national/local co-extensive membership (now called Mutual Membership) change is still a highly debated subject. I have forwarded some of your comments to Monty Herr who will bring them to the national AIHA. Please feel free to contact Monty yourself with any concerns that you have regarding this topic.

• Our National Board Coordinator is Monty Herr. You can reach Monty at Lawrence Livermore Labs:
  	LLNL-L379 PO Box 808 Livermore, CA 94551 (519)422-8744 (519)422-5176 FAX e-mail: herr2@llnl.gov

• 1999 AIHC&E will be in Toronto. Canada June 5-11, 1999. Make your plans now. You will be able to earn up to 6.5 CM points. Check out their new web page at: http://www.aiha.org/aihce99/info.html

CALIFORNIA UPDATE

New Website:

CIHC

This year's Representatives to CIHC are Bill Collier and Steve Smith. Please contact them if you need more information about CIHC.

Bill Collier, CIH, JD
916-567-4245
bill_collier@air-water.com

Steve Smith, CIH
916-322-3640
ssmith@hq.dir.ca.gov

CIHC Representative

Revised Respiratory Protection Standard

Blood-borne pathogens update

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Send your job announcements to:

        Larry Bellani, CIH
        State of California
        1304 O St. Rm 300
        Sacramento. CA 95814
        email: lbellani@bpm.ca.gov

State Personnel Board

Industrial Hygienist

• Self motivated
• Diverse industrial hygiene background
• Desire to be a part of a growing company
• Values great co-worker and client relationships

Interested candidates can contact the following individuals for additional information:

Roxanne Fynboh or William J. Cornils
CIH Services
1303 Jefferson St.. Ste. 300A
Napa, CA 94559

707-226-5899
707-226-9642 FAX
E-mail:	cihs@aol.com

ARTICLES FROM OUR MEMBERS

You may submit an article or advertisement to Audrey Lee-Eng. President.

Stretching the Envelope

Envelopes

Industrial Hygienists identify, evaluate and control hazardous materials in the working place. Environmentalists identify, evaluate and control hazardous materials in the community. Each group is driven by a different set of regulations, i.e. OSHA vs. EPA. But all of these people are really trying to protect people in a different "envelope". What side of the fence one is looking at or from defines the envelope.

It should be noted that most environmental regulations were promulgated because of the impact the material has on human life. It should also be recognized that exposures, or dosages, are functions of time and concentrations. Environmental concentrations are generally lower than those in the working place. However, environmental exposures often are 24 hours/day and 7 days/week and include people who are more susceptible to harm than healthy adult workers in the working place.

As one who started my career by looking at air and water pollution and then moving into the industrial hygiene envelope, I find I am using the same principles of identification, the same type of tools for evaluations, and engineering controls in either envelope. The health and welfare of people is the primary concern.

EnviroSlG

A group of people that has similar environmental interests has established a Special Interest Group within AHIA. Appropriately, it is called EnviroSIG. While the group is still forming its charter and mission, some observations can be identified:
• EnviroSlG wants to encourage other industrial hygienists to expand their envelope of interest into the environmental field.

• EnviroSlG is a group of professional scientists that have demonstrated environmental competence using tools and methods that are common to industrial hygienists. You can join this group using the following sign-on procedure:
  How to Sign-On and Use the AIHA EnviroSlG List Serve:

  To SUBSCRIBE to the enviro-list listserv, send a message to: MAJORDOMO@LISTS.AIHA.ORG with the single text line:

          subscribe enviro-list
  

• EnviroSlG has set up a e-mail site where people can make comments, ask questions and contact others who are involved with industrial hygiene AND environmental issues, The address to post a message is: enviro-list@lists.aiha.org

Once you have signed on to the Enviro-list, you can post articles for discussion and you will receive comments from others.

California

• Legislation determining who is able to conduct Lead Poison Prevention training is one of this year's most important issues for occupational health and safety professionals in California, CIHC President Vickie Lynn Wells tells us. After several hearings and committee meetings CIHC won a provision allowing CIHs to attend a three-day workshop instead of 88 hours of training.

• CIHC also followed a regulation that dealt with the question of who is qualified to provide training for lead abatement procedures.

• In addition, CIHC kept up the campaign to make sure the Cardenas bill to require licensure for engineers, which has been signed by the Governor, did not impact CIHs. At one point, the bill included language that would have required CIHs, who do environmental work, to report to P.E.s.

• This year occupational health and safety professionals in California saw their State take the national lead on OSHA-related legislation. CA A-2651 would require electronic MSDSs by July, 1999. Similar legislation has recently been offered in the U.S. House.

• Occupational health and safety officers and other professionals should be aware that bill A-2317 would make employers and employees responsible for the death or long- or short-term injuries of employees.

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