Knowing What’s Normal: How Companies Can Better Support Their Neurodivergent Workers

Last night, while eating dinner at his Kansas City hotel, David Finch, the opening keynoter for AIHA Connect 2025, realized that the presentation he’d prepared wasn’t good enough.

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May 19, 2025

OEHS Professionals Assess “Performance” vs. “Performative” Metrics

Performance metrics help OEHS professionals understand, manage, and improve organization and program functions and show that processes are in control. But they may be confused with what Alan Leibowitz called “performative or vanity metrics.”

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May 19, 2025

Author and Engineer David Finch Advises AIHA Connect Attendees on Navigating Neurodivergence in the Workplace

Engineer and bestselling memoirist David Finch shared strategies for accommodating neurodivergent professionals in the opening keynote at AIHA Connect 2025 on May 19. Afterwards, attendees spoke with Finch directly in an “Ask the Expert” session.

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May 15, 2025

EPA to Host Webinar on Wildland Fire Smoke, IAQ in Public Buildings

An upcoming EPA webinar will focus on wildland fire smoke infiltration and mitigation and indoor air quality in commercial and nonresidential buildings where people may gather during smoke events.

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Knowing What’s Normal: How Companies Can Better Support Their Neurodivergent Workers

OEHS Professionals Assess “Performance” vs. “Performative” Metrics

Author and Engineer David Finch Advises AIHA Connect Attendees on Navigating Neurodivergence in the Workplace

EPA to Host Webinar on Wildland Fire Smoke, IAQ in Public Buildings

Archive

2025

May

California Adds Fact Sheet on Nickel to Proposition 65 Website

EPA Releases Instructions for Submitting Data for New Chemicals under TSCA

Department of Health and Human Services Reinstates Some NIOSH Positions

Nineteen States, District of Columbia Sue Over Layoffs at NIOSH, Other Health Agencies

Coalition Mounts Legal Challenge to Elimination of NIOSH, Other Federal Agencies

Cal/OSHA Clarifies Requirements on Lead Exposure during Abrasive Blasting

IRSST Highlights Hazards of Two-Post Car Lifts

ILO Report Highlights Risks and Benefits of Artificial Intelligence

EPA Publishes Toxicological Review of PFHxS, a Biologically Persistent PFAS

European Chemicals Agency Proposes Partial Ban on Hexavalent Chromium Substances

EPA Recommends Measures to Mitigate Risks Associated with Pesticide Dicrotophos

April

Report Identifies Patterns in Overdoses Involving Both Opioids and Stimulants

NIOSH Cuts Prompt MSHA to Pause Silica Rule Enforcement

IARC Classifies Automotive Gasoline as Carcinogenic to Humans

OSHA Releases 2024 Workplace Illness and Injury Data

IARC Publishes Monograph on Two PFAS

EU Member States to Evaluate Risks of 28 Substances by 2027

HSE Researchers Examine Sampling Port Location for Particle-Counting Fit Tests

Register by May 2 to Participate in OSHA Hearing on Proposed Heat Rule

NIOSH Allies Call for Reversal of Agency Cuts

New Mexico Drafts Heat Illness and Injury Prevention Rule

On 20th Anniversary of Fatal Refinery Disaster, CSB Reflects on Lessons Learned

Safety Alert Urges Mines to Improve Fall Protection

Trump Nominates Acting CDC Director to Lead Agency

CSB: Release, Fire Occurred during Unit Startup at Renewable Diesel Facility

Britain's Workplace Health Regulator Updates Silica Guidance

NIOSH Decimated by Staffing Cuts

March

NIOSH to Be Part of New Entity

Delays Push Effective Date for Risk Management Rule for Solvent TCE

Second Volume of Chemical Incident Reports Available

MSHA Issues Safety Alert Following Deaths of 10 Miners in Early 2025

CDC: 21 Percent of Deaths from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Might Be Due to Occupational Exposures

New OSHA Appointees Announced

CSB Releases Update on Investigation of Explosion at Kentucky Coloring Facility

EPA Allows More Time for Data Reporting on 16 Chemicals

Senate Confirms Chavez-DeRemer as Secretary of Labor

Wisconsin State Program Launches “Chemicals in the Workplace” Dashboard

Resources for Preventing Hantavirus Highlighted by California Department of Public Health

New Standard Sets Sound Level Guidelines for Video Game Consoles

In Memoriam: Lester Levin

Dashboard Collects Data on Engineered Stone Silicosis in California

Video Depicts 2020 Propylene Release and Explosion at Manufacturing Facility

New Resources on Lithium-Ion Batteries Include EPA Webinar, OSHA Fact Sheet

EPA Extends Comment Period on Risk Management Rule for Pigment Violet 29

February

Increase in Airborne Lead Levels Detected During LA Fires

Nevada Implements Guidance for New Heat Illness Regulation

ECHA adds Five Chemicals to SVHC Candidate List

ECHA Opens Consultation on Draft OEL for Chemical Used in Grouting, Sealing Products

Trump Selects Nominees for OSHA and MSHA

CDC Finds Evidence of Recent Avian Influenza Infection in Three Veterinary Practitioners

Canadian Occupational Health Center Launches Plain Language Toolkit

Report Identifies Need for Data Analysis Skills among Public Health Workforce

NIOSH Finds Elevated PFAS Concentrations in Blood of Maui Firefighters

Final Risk Evaluations Available for Two Plasticizers Used in PVC

Guidance Addresses Nitrous Oxide Exposure among Maternity Ward Workers

California Issues Wildfire Cleanup Safety Guidance for Workers

Vinyl Chloride Among Next Five Chemicals Designated for TSCA Risk Evaluation

CDC: Mercury Exposure a Concern in Electronic Waste Recycling

California Adds Vinyl Acetate to Proposition 65 List as a Carcinogen

Civil Penalties Adjusted for Inflation

January

Compliance Guide Available for TSCA Workplace Chemical Protection Program Requirements

Study of Poultry Processing Characterizes Ergonomic Hazards, Peracetic Acid Exposures

NIOSH Updates Science Policy on Fit Testing for Hearing Protection Devices

CSB Releases First Volume of Chemical Incident Reports

EPA Finalizes Worker and Community Protections from Uses of Ethylene Oxide

Inhalation, Dermal Exposure to Formaldehyde Presents Unreasonable Risk to Workers, EPA Says

OSHA Outlines Hazards in Rapidly Changing Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry

Animated Video Depicts 2020 Toxic Gas Release at Chemical Facility Damaged by Hurricane