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At the present time we are developing two major initiatives,one relating to worker exposures to silica and the other the development of a training program based on the modular occupational hygiene training materials produced by OHTA and available at the www.ohlearning.com website.
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AIHA has recently released a short video explaining what an industrial or occupational hygienist is and the role of industrial hygiene in protecting the health of workers. You may find this video helpful in explaining occupational hygiene to coworkers, supervisors and maybe your family and friends, if they don’t understand what you do. Called The Right Thing to Do, this video can be viewed by following this link.
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Recently published on ilo.org
How do different religious traditions view the world of work and can they play a part in promoting ILO core values? A new publication entitled “Convergences: decent work and social justice in religious traditions”, explains the positions of various religious traditions regarding social justice and decent work issues. The ILO’s special adviser for socio-religious affairs, Pierre Martinot-Lagarde spoke to ILO Online.
via Decent work and social justice: a spiritual perspective.
The School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia in cooperation with the Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety University of Washington will be offering the course:
Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene Review September 17-21, 2012 (4½ days) in Vancouver, BC.
If you are interested in attending a comprehensive IH review course (particularly if you want to prepare for a certification exam), we recommend that you register for this course. The course contains 36 continuing education contact hours, which CIHs may claim as 34 hours of IH and 2 hours of IH Ethics credit.
Information and registration at http://www.spph.ubc.ca/CE.htm
Thanks to Andrew Cutz for alerting us to this course offering.
The NORA Interdisciplinary Seminars are OHS seminars offered quarterly, usually in February, April, August, and November.
These webinars enable any member of the OHS community with a broadband internet connection to take advantage of this high quality educational program. Attendees can obtain continuing education units (CEUs) through the UNC at Chapel Hill for a nominal fee if they complete an evaluation form. Currently, CM points from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene for certified industrial hygienists (CIHs) and RM points from the Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists are also available for each seminar at no cost, after completing the evaluation form.
Information about the seminars is sent by email at least a week before each seminar along with the slides and evaluation form. To be added to the email distribution list for these seminars, please contact susan.randolph@unc.edu.
If you have broadband Internet access, the National Academies (USA) is offering a free 1.5 day webinar entitled Biological Factors that Underlie Individual Susceptibility to Environmental Stressors and Their Implications for Decision Making on April 18-19, 2012. To register for this free webinar go here, or register at: http://nas-sites.org/emergingscience/workshops/individual variability/
The registration page offers a link to the preliminary agenda in pdf format, which can be downloaded.
This promises to be an excellent and free professional development opportunity for anyone who can make the time to take part. The webcast will also be recorded and available for access after the webinar.
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