WHWB meeting at AIHce Tuesday May 21, 9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

If you will be attending the American Industrial Hygiene conference in Montreal later this month, please join WHWB at our meeting on Tuesday, May 21, 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in Room 524a Palais des Congres.  After speaking to each other through teleconferences all year, it will be great to see each other face-to-face.  For [...]

Curso Online de Inglés Científico

-para expertos en Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional-

El trabajo en el campo de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional requiere cada vez más conocimientos de inglés científico. Por esta razón el Centro para la Salud Internacional (CIH) de la Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) ofrece cursos de inglés científico especialmente para expertos en Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional de Latinoamérica.

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Webinar: Workplace Psychological Health and Safety

The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) is sponsoring a free webinar titled Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace: Implementation and Indicators on Wednesday Apr 10 2013 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT.

This follows the release  by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) of Standard  Z1003-13: Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace – Prevention, Promotion, [...]

Silicosis among Agate workers

Jagdish Patel of the People’s Training And Research Centre in Gujarat, India has sent us a link to another article describing how the production of the ‘agate’ stones used in jewelry and rosary beads are killing workers in India. Please follow the link below to read the full article.

How the shiny ‘agate’ stones in [...]

April 3rd NORA Interdisciplinary Seminar

The NORA Interdisciplinary Seminars, established in 2002,  are offered quarterly, in February, April, August, and November. The seminars, presented “live” on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus are also webcast with a link to an archive available after the seminar. Any member of the  occupational health and safety community can attend at no cost. Since August [...]

Web Site Security

In a recent review of our list of subscribers, we discovered a long list of suspicious user names with equally suspicious email addresses. In all cases these registrants had supplied the minimum amount of information to register and none had posted to the site or given any other indication that they were human registrants. These [...]