Pre-conference Symposium

Advancements in Exposure Assessment: “Decision Making Tools in a Changing World”
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Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2,
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

2.0 IH CM/RM points; 1.6 CEU/1.6 COC points

Fees:
By August 24: $740 Member/$820 Nonmember
After August 24: $815 Member/$920 Nonmember

Exposure Assessment Strategies Committee Symposium Trailer from AIHA on Vimeo.

Learning Aid: Participants are asked to bring their laptop computers.

Outcomes: On completion, the participant will be able to:

• Utilize new and existing exposure assessment tools and strategies to make effective and efficient risk management decisions.
• Identify common exposure judgment errors and integrate methods to effectively address and correct them.
• Incorporate dermal and noise exposure assessments into a comprehensive strategy.
• Apply deterministic and probabilistic exposure models to real exposure scenarios.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of different screening level models.
• Locate resources and networks of dedicated occupational and environmental hygiene professionals.

Description: In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world, industrial hygienists need strategies and tools to make effective and efficient decisions. New regulations developed around the world, such as REACH, are impacting large and small businesses and are shaping the future. As a result, pressure from stakeholders has motivated many IHs and their organizations to work towards identifying even more efficient and comprehensive methods for exposure risk assessment and management.

AIHA’s exposure assessment and management strategy is essential to meeting new challenges. It provides a solid foundation for gauging occupational and environmental exposure risks. By developing, integrating and incorporating new tools—such as Bayesian data analysis, exposure modeling, dermal exposure assessment, and noise analysis—with existing tools, the strategy has empowered IHs and made them better able to face challenges in the vast new landscape of occupational and environmental exposure risk.

Over the past year, significant efforts by AIHA members have made these valuable tools even more user-friendly, powerful and readily available for strengthening professional judgment. During this symposium, participants will learn how to apply these practical tools and strategies through a series of real-life exposure scenario workshops. These workshops will utilize videos, basic characterization information, determinants of exposure, and sampling data for inhalation, dermal, and noise exposures. Participants will learn to make sound qualitative and quantitative exposure judgments, gain a better understanding of how they can apply new skills within their organization, and get direct feedback from seasoned experts. The capstone of the symposium will be a facilitated discussion summarizing lessons learned and identifying new opportunities for exposure assessment methodologies in the future.

Agenda

Thursday, October 1, 2009

• 8:00 – 8:15 Symposium Overview & Objectives
• 8:15 – 9:30 Keynote – “Decision Making Using the AIHA Exposure Assessment and Management Strategy”
  John Mulhausen, PhD, CIH, CSH
  Director, 3M Corporate Safety & Industrial Hygiene
• 9:30 – 10:15 Decision Rule Workshop
  John Mulhausen, PhD, CIH, CSH
• 10:15 – 10:30 Break
• 10:30 – 11:00 An Overview of IH Data Analysis Freeware
  Paul Hewett, PhD, CIH, Exposure Assessment Solutions, Inc.
• 11:00 – 12:00 Overview of Workplace and Exposure Scenarios - Developing and Defining Similarly Exposed Groups (SEGs)
  Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Ph.D., CIH, Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
• 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch (on your own)
• 1:00 – 2:30 Workshop #1 – Phenol & Formaldehyde Inhalation
  Perry Logan, CIH, Manager, Corporate Industrial Hygiene, 3M Corporate Safety & Industrial Hygiene / University of Minnesota; William H. Bullock, DHSc, CIH, CSP, Director of Industrial Hygiene, CSX Transportation
• 2:30 – 2:45 Break
• 2:45 – 3:30 Dermal Exposure Assessments
  Jennifer Sahmel, CIH, CSP, Supervising Health Scientist, ChemRisk, Inc.
• 3:30 – 4:15 Workshop #1 Continued – Qualitative Phenol Dermal
  Jennifer Sahmel, CIH, CSP
• 4:15 – 4:45 Methods for Understanding and Improving Exposure Judgment Accuracy
  Perry Logan, CIH
• 4:45 – 5:00 Wrap up Day 1 and Preview of Day 2
  John Mulhausen, PhD, CIH, CSH
  5:00 – 6:00 Networking Reception

Friday, October 2, 2009

• 8:00 – 8:05 Review of Day 1 and Overview of Day 2
  John Mulhausen, PhD, CIH, CSH
• 8:05 – 8:45 Modeling Exposures – Opening the Toolbox
  Michael Jayjock, PhD, The LifeLine Group, Inc.
• 8:45 – 9:20 Using the BDA & EA Strategy to Leverage Models
  Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Ph.D., CIH, Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
• 9:20 – 9:35 Break
• 9:35 -10:30 Using Bayesian Methods to Incorporate Qualitative Information into Quantitative Exposure Models
  Susan Arnold, MSOH, CIH, The LifeLine Group, Inc. and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health
• 10:30 – 12:00 Scenario Workshop #2 – Modeling Silica Exposures at the Iron Foundry
  Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Ph.D., CIH; Susan Arnold, MSOH, CIH
• 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch (on your own)
• 1:00 – 2:00 Retrospective Exposure Assessment for the Individual - Perspectives from Litigation
  Tom Armstrong, CIH, PhD, Principal Investigator, TWA8HR Occupational Hygiene Consulting, LLC
• 2:00 – 2:30 Quantitative Dermal Assessments
  Jennifer Sahmel, CIH, CSP
• 2:30 – 2:45 Break
• 2:45 – 3:30 Workshop #3 – Phenol - Inhalation and Dermal
  Mike Jayjock, Ph.D.; Jennifer Sahmel, CIH, CSP
• 3:30 – 4:15 Chasing dB: Exposure Assessment Strategy for Noise
  Lee D. Hager, Hearing Loss Prevention Consultant, Aearo Technologies, a 3M Company
• 4:15 - 4:45 Workshop #4 - Noise
  William H. Bullock, DHSc, CIH, CSP
• 4:45 -5:00 Where Do We Go From Here?
  John Mulhausen, PhD, CIH, CSH