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SynergistNOW, a blog created and delivered by the American Industrial Hygiene Association, offers ideas, insights, and perspectives on important topics affecting industrial and occupational hygiene professionals, written by and for experienced IH/OHs, researchers, academics, and AIHA leaders.​​


The opinions, claims, conclusions, and positions expressed on this blog are those of the author or person quoted and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors, AIHA®, The Synergist®, or SynergistNOW.

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Touchstone... by Larry Sloan: Perspectives from AIHA's CEO.

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Serial: Installments on important issues in IH.

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May 30, 2024
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Introducing AIHA’s Military and Uniformed Services Support Committee

Results from AIHA's 2023 membership survey indicated that the members of the government and military comprise our second-highest membership industry group, which led us to ask, "How can we better serve the military community?"
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May 16, 2024
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Five Trends in OEHS

The consulting firm Foresight Alliance found trends affecting occupational and environmental health and safety in six areas: information flows, evolving science, workforce shifts, 21st-century health, politics and society, and IH in an AI world.
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May 9, 2024
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The Next Step for Improving Mental Health through the Workplace: Eliminating Stigma

Modest progress on mental health in the workplace is at risk if we don't eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health issues. If people are too ashamed or afraid to talk about their mental health, they won't get the help they need.
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May 2, 2024
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Worker's Memorial Day 2024

When a worker is killed on the job, it isn't just the families who grieve. Their communities grieve, too. Every fallen worker is a son, a daughter, a father, a mother, a neighbor, a friend, or a part of a larger community.
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April 25, 2024
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  • Serial

Industrial Hygienists Should Join Efforts to Establish Recovery-Ready Workplaces

The answer to the growing problem of substance use disorder is the adoption of recovery-ready workplace policies to create safe and healthy work environments for workers who have substance use disorders or are in recovery.
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April 23, 2024
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Health and Safety Challenges in Correctional Facilities

Populations that work in correctional facilities have unique health and safety needs. An OEHS professional may encounter hazards and exposures that are unfamiliar to them or combine in unfamiliar ways if they find work in this environment.
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April 18, 2024
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Navigating the New Frontier: MSHA's 2024 Silica Rule and Its Impact on Analytical Laboratories

Industrial hygienists are on the brink of a significant regulatory shift. MSHA's new silica rule will lower the permissible exposure limit for respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air over an 8-hour time-weighted average.
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April 11, 2024
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Controls for Workplace Violence

Incidents of violence in the workplace are becoming more frequent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries for 2021 found that fatal workplace injuries had increased by 8.9 percent since the previous year.
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April 9, 2024
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No “One Size Fits All”: The Shared Goals of Ergonomics and Safety Equity

Many OEHS professionals are already familiar with ergonomics, but they may not have considered the overlap between ergonomics and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Both ergonomics and DEI enable participation by all members of a workforce.
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April 4, 2024

Deploying a Large-Scale Ergonomics Process Year by Year

Large organizations often launch ergonomics processes only to have them "fizzle." Failure to initiate and maintain an effective process can result in loss of credibility and trust by employees and management, wasted resources, and poor results.
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March 28, 2024
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  • AIHA University

Applied Ergonomics Risk Assessment

The goal of a workplace ergonomics program is to reduce worker exposure to risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders, which account for 33 percent of disabling occupational injuries and 40 percent of workers' compensation costs.
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March 26, 2024
  • Synergist Blog,
  • AIHce EXP

NAGPRA Repatriations: A Convergence of Activism, Anthropology, and OEHS

For several years, AIHA's museum working group has raised awareness of hazards in museum collections. These hazards remain associated with artifacts—and, in some cases, the physical remains of human beings—repatriated to communities under NAGPRA.
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