Throughout his 30-year teaching career, Fredi Lajvardi has learned that teenagers form their beliefs about what they can achieve by observing adults around them. Therefore, mentorship is vital to building a STEM career pipeline.

With hotter summers and more active wildfire seasons, industrial hygienists Mona Shum and Michael Cooper say that residents in the Pacific Northwest are exposed to rising levels of wildfire smoke, which CDC notes may cause a range of health effects.

Many OEHS professionals feel that climate change falls outside their purview. But even the most traditional industrial hygiene concerns will likely become more severe and affect more people as climate change progresses.

OEHS professionals’ role of identifying and managing hazards gives them a structure for communicating risk, but they often approach it through a regulatory lens. Here, Mike Larrañaga and Perry Logan discuss communicating risk with empathy.

Health physicist Brian Thomson and environmental health and safety professional Cynthia Backlund, MS, CIH, CSP, share how teaching influencing and communication skills can help improve health and safety at a U.S. national laboratory.