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SynergistNOW, a blog created and delivered by the American Industrial Hygiene Association, offers ideas, insights, and perspectives on important topics affecting industrial and occupational hygiene professionals, written by and for experienced IH/OHs, researchers, academics, and AIHA leaders.​​

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August 23, 2022
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Touchstone ... by Larry Sloan

Essential Guidelines for Emergency Response

For many years, AIHA has produced community emergency exposure limits known as Emergency Response Planning Guidelines. AIHA is one of the few entities worldwide that produces new community emergency exposure limits and updates them regularly.
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August 18, 2022
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Aspects of Risk Assessment: A Workshop

AIHA's free workshop on Aug. 25 will launch a series bringing together experts to discuss various approaches to exposure and risk assessment used in different areas of practice.
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August 9, 2022
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The Monthly Weekly: Federal Agencies Tackle Lead and Other Hazards

OSHA's announcement of beginning the process to revise its standards for lead exposure gained the attention of OEHS professionals. Over the past month, chemical and material hazards have also been the focus of other U.S. federal agencies.
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August 4, 2022
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  • Washington Insider

Focusing on What Matters Most

What do you value? What’s most important? What public policies should AIHA focus on? What states should we be particularly active in? Your answers to all these questions and more will help inform AIHA’s government relations strategy in 2023.
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August 2, 2022
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Can People Be “Inoculated” Against Misinformation?

One of the problems that have confounded emergency preparedness professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic is the speed with which misinformation and disinformation flourishes.
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July 28, 2022
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  • Serial

From the Archives: Readings in Ethics

A fruitful collaboration with the Joint Industrial Hygiene Ethics Education Committee helps The Synergist publish articles that present hypothetical case studies of ethical quandaries to prepare readers for how to approach ethical conflicts at work.
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July 26, 2022
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Preserving History, Protecting Safety

Many items in the Indiana Medical History Museum's collection are thought to be hazardous. To address health and safety issues in the facility, IMHM staff are working with Purdue's OEHS program and IUPUI's museum studies department.
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July 22, 2022
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The Non-Realized Costs of an Accident

Missed workdays due to injury, medical costs, insurance costs, and time-loss payments are just the tip of the iceberg: the hidden, or non-realized, costs of accidents are much greater and figure prominently into companies' bottom lines.
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July 19, 2022
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Meet Chuck Geraci, Chair of AIHA’s Content Portfolio Advisory Group

Early this summer, AIHA member Chuck Geraci started his new role as head of the AIHA Content Portfolio Advisory Group. Ina Xhani chatted with him about his involvement with AIHA, what CPAG is, and what he hopes to achieve during his one-year tenure.
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July 14, 2022
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Essentials Series

Strategies for Work During a Pandemic

Preventing and managing COVID-19 in the workplace must be a significant concern for employers. COVID-19 could remain a threat to employee health and safety for at least the next five years, according to Anthony Harris, MD, MBA, MPH.
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July 12, 2022
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Tune Out the Noise

In 2016, USA Today covered a construction worker who left his job due to extreme symptoms of hearing loss and hearing sensitivity caused by noise exposure. NIOSH has reported that around 22 million workers are exposed to damaging noise every year.
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July 8, 2022
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Touchstone ... by Larry Sloan

AIHA’s New Strategic Plan: The Advocacy Domain

A previous post introduced the domains of AIHA's strategic plan: community, awareness, advancement and dissemination of knowledge, integrity of professional practice, and advocacy. This post highlights the last domain: advocacy.
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