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September 25, 2025
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How the Updated Chemical Protective Clothing Helps You Protect Workers

Years ago, Robert N. Phalen worked in automotive repair. Because his employer did not provide him with protective gloves, he had to buy his own. Lack of protective clothing is also an issue he has observed throughout his industrial hygiene career.
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August 21, 2025
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Finding the Confidence to Present at AIHA Connect

If you’ve never given a presentation at an academic or professional conference before, the prospect may seem intimidating. This is how Alex Cardone, MPH, CIH, CSP, felt before attending his first AIHA-hosted conference in 2022.
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June 12, 2025
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Your Guide to an Industrial Hygiene Career

You might wish you had a resource laying out the skills one needs to be successful in industrial hygiene. Fortunately, this resource exists in the form of AIHA’s Core Competencies for the Practice of Industrial/Occupational Hygiene document.
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April 24, 2025
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An Introduction to Mental Health First Aid

If you’re certified in first aid, you would know how to help a physically ill or injured colleague until emergency services arrive. But you may not know how to help a colleague facing a mental health challenge.
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April 10, 2025
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Accessibility in Health and Safety Communication

The challenge of conveying health and safety information is compounded by the fact that not everyone communicates the same way. "Accessibility" may also refer to communication styles and practices.
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March 27, 2025
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Reaching Out to Workers and Community Members

Knowing how to control occupational and environmental health and safety hazards is only half the battle. But adoption of controls isn’t entirely within the power of OEHS professionals—the people these controls are intended to protect get a say.
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March 13, 2025
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Communicating Effectively: Advice from a Former Secret Service Agent

Your "soft skills" are just as valuable as your technical expertise. According to former Secret Service Agent Evy Poumpouras, who will give the AIHA Connect 2025 closing keynote, if you can master the business of people, you can master anything.
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February 27, 2025
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Supporting Neurodiversity in the Workplace

You or someone you know might be neurodivergent—someone whose brain doesn’t work the way most people’s brains work. At AIHA Connect 2025, keynote speaker David Finch will address managing and leveraging neurodiversity in the workplace.
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February 13, 2025
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Breaking Bad News

OEHS professionals must occasionally report problems to their leaders. “The nature of our profession is that we don't often focus on the things that are going well,” said Alan Leibowitz, CIH, CSP, FAIHA. “We focus on identifying potential concerns.”
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February 4, 2025
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Building Trust in Safety Tech

Occupational and environmental health and safety professionals have more access than ever to new technologies that may simplify their work, but workers are not always on board with new safety technologies being implemented in their workplaces.
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December 19, 2024
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Investigating Impulse Noise

Although noise is present in almost every workplace, preventing hearing loss remains a challenge for occupational and environmental health and safety professionals.
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December 5, 2024
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Controlling Plant and Animal Hazards

Michael Goldman, CIH, CHMM. CSP, CPEA, QEP, didn’t follow the traditional pathway into occupation and environmental health and safety. Now, they still often deal with nontraditional hazards: specifically, dangerous plants and animals.
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