"Everything here is water-related, which tends to be the case with health care," said Bryan E. Christensen, an industrial hygienist and epidemiologist with CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. "There really needs to be an increased role for the industrial hygiene field at health care facilities. It's something that needs more emphasis going forward."
Sean Kerklaan of Fatigue Science held a session on the importance of sleep, and how to improve it for workers.
Scott Brueck of NIOSH evaluated the effect of noise on hearing loss at a hammer forge company.
A study looked at the village of Dong Mai, which created an industry out of recycling batteries and thus an overexposure to lead.
Having investigated the Upper Big Branch mine disaster, grain bin deaths, and the erosion of workers' compensation protections, he says the agencies and prosecutors don’t enforce strongly enough, and workers suffer.
Only three occupational cases of mosquito-borne Zika virus transmission have been recorded in the United States, a NIOSH presenter said June 5.
About 18,300 people applied more than a year ago, and the agency is announcing the new group in a live broadcast June 7 from the Johnson Space Center.
Sean Kerklaan of Fatigue Science held a session on the importance of sleep, and how to improve it for workers.
A number of presenters discussed EHS issues and how they crop up in the construction work place.
The association is looking for experts in industrial hygiene and occupational and environmental health and safety to submit proposals.
At this year’s AIHce EXP conference, the themes include questions about the IH profession’s future and the newest real-time detection technologies available from industry manufacturers.
The three winners were honored during a June 4 reception at the AIHce conference.
The three-day annual event hosted by NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research Division is taking place at the Marriott Rivercenter in San Antonio.
The event will help raise awareness of safety and health programs for stakeholders.
Americans have been encouraged to make safety resolutions and break bad habits.