Understanding aerosol physics, biology, instrumentation, and control strategies can make you a more effective industrial hygienist.

You'll encounter welding in any environment where workers must apply heat and pressure to join materials together. But do you know how welding processes work? Or what hazards welders are exposed to? Or how to protect welders from welding fumes?

Protecting employee hearing and reducing noise improves comfort, verbal communication, and overall health. This post shares examples and tips from the author's experience as an industrial hygienist for a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant.

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.

The Society of Toxicology (SOT) invites you to participate in its 61st Annual Meeting and ToxExpo, which will take place March 27–31, 2022, in San Diego, California.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, NIOSH and AIHA have cooperated to protect workers across all industries. As part of the cooperative agreement, AIHA updated the guidance document, The Role of the Industrial Hygienist in a Pandemic.

A draft version of the recently revised and updated ANSI/ASSP Z9.5 standard on lab ventilation will soon be available for public review. This update, the first for this standard since 2012, was partially the work of AIHA members.

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the industrial hygiene and safety community. Whatever the impact at your organization, the industrial hygienist’s digital toolbox has never been more important.

Let me reintroduce a not-so-new tool to my fellow industrial hygienists: exposure banding. Occupational exposure banding is a heuristic for quickly assigning chemical substances to “bands” of exposure levels based on their associated health outcomes.

Originally launched in 2008, IH Mod is a downloadable mathematical modeling Excel spreadsheet used for estimating occupational airborne exposures. It is available in multiple languages and includes a separate support file

What could be easier than developing a badge for acetic acid? It’s such a common household chemical.

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