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July 25, 2024
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Resources to Update Your Aerosol Acumen

Understanding aerosol physics, biology, instrumentation, and control strategies can make you a more effective industrial hygienist.
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September 28, 2023
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An Insider’s Perspective on Welding Hazards

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?
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July 20, 2023
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DIY Steps to Reduce Noise

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.
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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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February 8, 2022
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You’re Invited to the 2022 Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting and ToxExpo

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.
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January 20, 2022
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The Role of the Industrial Hygienist in a Pandemic: A Roadmap for COVID-19 and Beyond

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.
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June 15, 2021
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Coming Soon: Revised Standard on Lab Ventilation

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.
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July 9, 2020
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Using Your Digital Toolbox to Stay Safe

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.
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March 4, 2020
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Occupational Exposure Bands: A Reintroduction

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.
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January 28, 2020
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IH Mod 2.0: Freeware Models with Monte Carlo Simulation

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
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October 3, 2019
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The Acetic Acid Recovery Problem

What could be easier than developing a badge for acetic acid? It’s such a common household chemical.
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September 19, 2019
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Top Five Lab Safety Tips

Sponsored by Bulwark From fires and explosions to sharp objects, pathogens, and dangerous chemicals, laboratories are home to a variety of hazards. To help promote lab safety, Bulwark Protection—a manufacturer of protective workwear, including lab co...
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