Mission
To provide a forum for exchanging ideas and information about the application of management principles to occupational and environmental health programs; to identify, develop, and promote strategies that further integrate the occupational and environmental health professional into the management team.
Goals and Objectives
Goal: Assemble, evaluate, and disseminate to occupational and environmental health professionals information relevant to management techniques useful in occupational and environmental health programs and activities.
Objective #1: To achieve full utilization of management principles.
Strategies:
- Organize annual sessions at the AIHce that focus on the application of management principles.
- Solicit and prepare papers for publication that address the application of management principles.
Provide continuing education programs that address and promote the application of management principles.
- Publish guidelines on occupational and environmental health programs management.
- Sponsor educational programs for members to assist in establishing and auditing occupational and environmental health programs.
Objective #2: Provide technical support to the membership on occupational and environmental health issues.
Strategies:
- Serve as a clearinghouse to help members identify the resources they may need to manage their programs more effectively.
- Respond to AIHA Board requests to address management issues that emerge from regulatory and legislative issues.
Monitor emerging issues relevant to the application of management principles and develop and recommend positions to the AIHA Board.
Larry and Ruth Birkner Award
AIHce 2010: Charles Redinger, PhD, CIH