Amid the complex challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the greatest commonality for school principals and administrators trying to protect staff and students may be the need to adapt health and safety guidance to their particular circumstances.

The application of artificial intelligence to environmental health and safety management is growing across almost every industry. AI is becoming essential to EHS decision-makers who need tools to help make sense of vast volumes of data.

When the next pandemic strikes, we want to be better prepared, but how can we achieve that state of readiness? Members of Congress are tackling that question now with a new bill that has a fleetingly rare feature in Washington, D.C.—it’s bipartisan.

The Society of Toxicology (SOT) invites you to participate in its 61st Annual Meeting and ToxExpo, which will take place March 27–31, 2022, in San Diego, California.

OEHS professionals are facing unprecedented changes in the risks we must prepare for and address. While our mission has always been to anticipate, recognize, and address hazards, the past few years have shown us the value of preparation.

Less than a month into 2022, NIOSH has already released two new publications related to topics of high interest to Synergist readers: controls and exposure assessment. This post highlights these and other publications recently released by NIOSH.

For more than a decade, lawmakers and advocacy groups have been requesting that OSHA issue an emergency temporary standard addressing heat related illnesses and injuries. OSHA finally took a step toward issuing a heat stress standard in October 2021.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, NIOSH and AIHA have cooperated to protect workers across all industries. As part of the cooperative agreement, AIHA updated the guidance document, The Role of the Industrial Hygienist in a Pandemic.

Start the year off right by maximizing your member benefits: whether you are an OEHS student, new to the field, a seasoned professional, or retired, the best way to optimize your professional growth is to make the most of your membership.

While every worker in the United States has been affected by the pandemic, not all have been affected equally or equitably. Recent studies illustrate the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on among racial and ethnic minority groups.

In his AIHce EXP 2021 presentation "COVID-19 Response: Inventing a New Science," Steven A. Lipson, CIH, CSP, discussed the initial response by industrial hygienists to the pandemic and how they modified their approaches.

Thanks to a generous cooperative agreement grant AIHA was awarded earlier this year from CDC/NIOSH, we embarked on the development of a vast library of knowledge products, including videos, checklists, and guidelines.