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April 23, 2024
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Health and Safety Challenges in Correctional Facilities

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.
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April 9, 2024
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No “One Size Fits All”: The Shared Goals of Ergonomics and Safety Equity

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.
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March 26, 2024
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NAGPRA Repatriations: A Convergence of Activism, Anthropology, and OEHS

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.
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March 19, 2024
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Meeting Uncertainty with Curiosity

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.
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February 29, 2024
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The Mining Industry and Reproductive Health: Protecting Pregnant Workers

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.
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February 1, 2024
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An Immersive Inventory of Impulse Noise

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.
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January 25, 2024
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Embracing Your “Peculiarity” as a Scientist and Communicator

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.
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April 4, 2023
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The OEHS Professionals’ Guide to Networking

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.
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March 28, 2023
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A Future of Supportive Standards and Technology

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.
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March 7, 2023
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Building a STEM Career Pathway Through Mentorship

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.
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March 3, 2023
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Adapting to a Hotter, Smokier Environment in the Pacific Northwest

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.
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February 7, 2023
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The Effects of Climate Change on OEHS—And How OEHS Professionals Can Prepare

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.
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