OSHA's announcement of beginning the process to revise its standards for lead exposure gained the attention of OEHS professionals. Over the past month, chemical and material hazards have also been the focus of other U.S. federal agencies.

What do you value? What’s most important? What public policies should AIHA focus on? What states should we be particularly active in? Your answers to all these questions and more will help inform AIHA’s government relations strategy in 2023.

One of the problems that have confounded emergency preparedness professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic is the speed with which misinformation and disinformation flourishes.

A fruitful collaboration with the Joint Industrial Hygiene Ethics Education Committee helps The Synergist publish articles that present hypothetical case studies of ethical quandaries to prepare readers for how to approach ethical conflicts at work.

Many items in the Indiana Medical History Museum's collection are thought to be hazardous. To address health and safety issues in the facility, IMHM staff are working with Purdue's OEHS program and IUPUI's museum studies department.

Missed workdays due to injury, medical costs, insurance costs, and time-loss payments are just the tip of the iceberg: the hidden, or non-realized, costs of accidents are much greater and figure prominently into companies' bottom lines.

Early this summer, AIHA member Chuck Geraci started his new role as head of the AIHA Content Portfolio Advisory Group. Ina Xhani chatted with him about his involvement with AIHA, what CPAG is, and what he hopes to achieve during his one-year tenure.

Preventing and managing COVID-19 in the workplace must be a significant concern for employers. COVID-19 could remain a threat to employee health and safety for at least the next five years, according to Anthony Harris, MD, MBA, MPH.

In 2016, USA Today covered a construction worker who left his job due to extreme symptoms of hearing loss and hearing sensitivity caused by noise exposure. NIOSH has reported that around 22 million workers are exposed to damaging noise every year.

A previous post introduced the domains of AIHA's strategic plan: community, awareness, advancement and dissemination of knowledge, integrity of professional practice, and advocacy. This post highlights the last domain: advocacy.

AIHA University has published 11 technical frameworks that are intended to provide practitioners and stakeholders with baselines of knowledge on the components of OEHS subject areas.

After hearing personal accounts about how the pandemic had affected essential workers, especially grocery store workers, graduate student Constancia Dominguez joined a research project to gather information about their experiences.