In our pursuit of innovation and progress, the role of the environmental, health and safety professional has never been more apparent, or more critical than it is today. As in any industry, the responsibilities of those who work in EHS continue to ev...

With the month of October comes the beginning of cold weather season in the northern hemisphere and concerns about how well your portable gas detection equipment will function when winter puts its death grip on the thermometer. Some instruments are r...

At 23, Jay Clinger is already an industrial hygiene veteran. In his second year of graduate school, he’s had several IH internships, attended two AIHce conferences, and won several American Industrial Hygiene Foundation (AIHF​)scholarships. But Jay C...

AIHA member Alyson Gray was looking for a way to use her undergraduate degree in public health to get out into the field and really use what she had learned. Her research led her to something new—at least it was new to her—and she enrolled in the ind...

Editor’s note: The “I Am IH” series of blog posts stems from AIHA’s #IAmIH project, which seeks to highlight the people behind the industrial hygiene profession. These posts feature Q&As with IHs from across the U.S. More information about #IAmIH...

For AIHA member Christine Uebel-Niemeier, entering her second year as an IH graduate student isn’t just a career choice. It’s a family tradition. Her grandfather worked as a toxicologist for 35 years. Her uncle has a master’s in industrial hygiene. N...

AIHA member Candice Burton, CIH, has built her industrial hygiene career from the ground up. Even deeper: she started underground working as an IH in the gold mining and coal mining industries, where she encountered no shortage of health hazards. Tod...

​The Center for Safety and Health Sustainability is one of the most successful inter-association initiatives AIHA has ever joined, but until now we have flown a bit under the radar. The Center has been around since June 2011 when AIHA joined with ASS...

AIHA member Max Chmielinski isn’t just launching his career as an industrial hygienist. He’s blazing a trail. Chmielinski is working on the leading edge of critical IH research in the emerging, controversial—and potentially dangerous—marijuana indust...

I have a bias, but I think that one of the great sessions at AIHce EXP 2017 was “Microbiomes of the Built Environment.” Typically, settled dust contains outdoor air particulate pollution, soil, a lot of fibers of various fabrics, and a surprising amo...

Editor’s note: The “I Am IH” series of blog posts stems from AIHA’s #IAmIH project, which seeks to highlight the people behind the industrial hygiene profession. These posts feature Q&As with IHs from across the U.S. More information about #IAmIH...

I grew up in Texas, so Austin is familiar. I stayed at a hotel right off South Congress Avenue, about six blocks away from the Capitol. I woke an hour earlier than I would otherwise so I could go over my notes again – Mark Ames from AIHA government r...