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Currently featured in the September 2024 Synergist
Recovery from Technostress
How to Prevent Psychosocial Hazards That Extend Beyond the Workplace
Despite their benefits, new technologies can sometimes worsen existing psychosocial hazards or create new ones, which can exacerbate workers' stress, challenge their ability to cope, and increase risks for poor health and well-being.
Leveraging External Training Resources
These Programs Can Assist with Limitations, Challenges
Companies with limited capacity to train workers can benefit from participating in the Worker Training Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The program has trained more than five million workers in the U.S. and surrounding territories on various occupational health topics.
The New TLV for Endotoxins
What It Means for Exposure Assessment
In June, the ACGIH Board of Directors adopted a Threshold Limit Value for airborne endotoxins. This article will help practitioners better understand what endotoxins are, the wide variations in health effects that different endotoxins may elicit, and the significant limitations in measuring and assessing endotoxin exposures.
Features from the August 2024 Synergist
Fifty Years of Excellence in Accredited Testing
AIHA LAP Celebrates a Major Milestone
A lot has happened since 1974 when AIHA, after working closely with NIOSH, OSHA, and CDC, announced it would begin accrediting industrial hygiene laboratories and operating a companion proficiency testing program. That first year, AIHA accredited some 26 IH laboratories, ten of which are still IH accredited today.
The BaseLINE Approach
How and Why to Assess a New Laboratory Prior to Occupancy
After designing and constructing a new laboratory, a commissioning assessment can be an important final step in providing a safe and healthy environment. An innovative new approach at the National Institutes of Health combines the traditional commissioning process with safety and environmental checks.
Wrong By Design
Ten Critical Points in Laboratory Exhaust Ventilation Design and Installation
Laboratory fume hoods are the most important exposure control devices in research laboratories where hazardous materials are used. If OEHS professionals do not understand and consider in advance certain selection, design, installation, test, calibration, and preventive maintenance criteria, they may compromise ventilation system performance.