Populations that work in correctional facilities have unique health and safety needs. An OEHS professional may encounter hazards and exposures that are unfamiliar to them or combine in unfamiliar ways if they find work in this environment.

Many OEHS professionals are already familiar with ergonomics, but they may not have considered the overlap between ergonomics and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Both ergonomics and DEI enable participation by all members of a workforce.

For several years, AIHA's museum working group has raised awareness of hazards in museum collections. These hazards remain associated with artifacts—and, in some cases, the physical remains of human beings—repatriated to communities under NAGPRA.

Before Helena Boschi returned to university to study psychology and neuroscience, she observed that people often responded to change initiatives in surprising and irrational ways, even when these initiatives seemed to make sense on a rational level.

Women are vital participants in the mining workforce, and their significance will only increase due to technological, social, and economic forces shaping the planet. This means the mining industry must better protect women's health and safety.

The high peaks and very brief sampling windows make impulse noise difficult to measure. Robert Agnew, PhD, first noticed the challenge of accurately measuring impulse noise when he encountered a drop hammer as a field industrial hygienist.

Entomologist Samuel Ramsey, PhD, is known for achievements that seem far outside the purview of occupational and environmental health and safety. But as a science communicator, he encounters challenges that OEHS professionals will relate to.

No one really works alone. But no one arrives in the OEHS profession with a network in place. In this post, three industrial hygienists, each with less than 20 years of experience, share their advice for building their professional networks.

For neuroscientist Poppy Crum, PhD, who will give the opening keynote at AIHce EXP 2023, studying the physiology of perception has profoundly influenced her work in building technologies that support everyone.

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.