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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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March 14, 2017
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  • I Am IH,
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Climate Change and Occupational Health

The “butterfly effect” suggests that one small action, like the movement of a butterfly’s wings, can ripple into significant and unforeseen consequences. While the concept was initially related to weather prediction, applying it to climate change see...
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March 10, 2017
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  • I Am IH,
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Understanding the “Other Side”

As a result of the recent election, we’re seeing more political activism and conflict in the news. Whatever our political position, people tend to have strongly held beliefs and viewpoints. One of my concerns is that the current political controversi...
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March 6, 2017
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The Importance of Strategic Decision-Making, Part I

AIHA’s annual Leadership Workshop was held this past weekend. It’s an exciting time when officers from our Volunteer Groups, Local Sections, and Student Local Sections come together for self-discovery and to learn how they can become more effective g...
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March 3, 2017
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What the Oscars Reminded Us About Risk Management

Catastrophic failures can happen in any industry. While industrial hygienists and environmental health and safety (EHS) professionals are concerned with protecting the health and safety of our work force, other professionals have more abstract concer...
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February 28, 2017
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  • The Monthly Weekly,
  • Washington Insider

News Roundup: NIOSH App Grabs Headlines

Have you heard? Noise is back in the news: social media is still buzzing about the new NIOSH Sound Level Meter mobile app that became available for iOS devices last month. Here's what some Twitter users have to say about the app: @NIOSH creates sound...
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February 22, 2017
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  • The Membership Experience,
  • Washington Insider

How to Raise Awareness of the Profession in Your Spare Time

AIHA members are at the heart of the profession and the association. Our members, many for decades, have spent hours upon hours volunteering, and have been invaluable contributors to the profession in innumerable ways. These members are influencers a...
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February 14, 2017
  • Synergist Blog,
  • I Am IH,
  • Serial,
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Attract and Retain Young Talent

What do you strive for at the end of the day: food and shelter, family and friends, or fame and fortune? Maslow’s hierarchy of basic human needs, first introduced in the 1940s, has been widely applied in management training, personal development, and...
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February 7, 2017
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  • Touchstone ... by Larry Sloan,
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The Call to Engage AIHA Members’ Best Thinking

As you may have read in my previous blogs, AIHA , BGC, and ACGIH have come together to form a new Brand Awareness Task Force that will craft compelling messages aimed at explaining the importance of the IH profession to audiences that “are not like o...
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February 1, 2017
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Sailing the Legislative Seas

Perhaps it is no surprise that legislators like to, well, legislate! This, combined with recent elections often dominated by messaging that policymakers need to get to work, has resulted in a torrent of new bills offered at a pace that is enough to m...
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January 24, 2017
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Washington Insider

A Matter of Choice

Recently a group of us gathered in a meeting room at AIHA headquarters to make selections for an upcoming project. We had received a large number of applications, and in reading through the submissions I was struck by how each one was excellent in it...
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January 17, 2017
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  • I Am IH,
  • Serial,
  • Washington Insider

Talking about Science: Goodbye—and Good Riddance—to the Deficit Model

For years, a simple paradigm has dominated the field of science communication. This paradigm is called the “deficit model,” and while its name may be unfamiliar, many will recognize its underlying theory. According to the deficit model, inadequate in...
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January 5, 2017
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  • Touchstone ... by Larry Sloan,
  • Washington Insider

The Rubber Meets the Road

Happy New Year! As my tenure hits its 90-day mark, I am pleased to report that AIHA, in collaboration with A and ACGIH, has formed a new task force to address how we can better communicate to the many stakeholder groups we serve what it is IH/OH prof...
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