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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Sponsored by SKC Inc. During 2018, I was amazed by the wave of game-changing technology that hit the market, the likes of which I have not seen in my 35 years in industrial hygiene. Following are a few examples: Artificial intelligence (AI). At the...

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Sponsored by OHD, LLLPMany modern noise measurement instruments are able to assess noise levels against a number of different occupational noise exposure standards such as OSHA, NIOSH/ACGIH, and the European Union’s Physical Agents (Noise) Directive....

Editor’s note: SynergistNOW welcomes its newest contributor, Mike Jayjock. Mike will be posting from time to time on modeling, risk assessment, exposure assessment, toxicology, and more. Be sure to visit Mike's blog, Human Health Risk Assessment to C...