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We have just established a Mentor program to match experienced occupational hygienists with new entrants to the field of occupational hygiene. We are actively seeking projects to improve the quality of working life for workers everywhere. We are working on a training module on the hazards of silica exposure and their control. This will be contributed to the collection of modular occupational hygiene training materials produced by OHTA and available at the www.ohlearning.com website.
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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.
Estos curos forman parte de la Maestría en Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional Internacional de la LMU y ahora también se puede participar sin estar inscrito en la Maestría. Los cursos se llevan a cabo online y son perfectamente compatibles con cualquier horario de trabajo.
Para más información sigan este enlace: http://tinyurl.com/cru72w9
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, and Guidance. Although still a voluntary standard, Z-1003 will raise expectations placed on employers, with respect to protecting the psychological health and safety of workers. As part of the standard, employers implementing it will be expected to monitor the risks within their workplace. At the webinar, members of the CSA technical committee will speak about the development of the standard.
Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto is working on a project to use the results of employee engagement surveys, already in place, to develop a psychological safety risk index.
To register for the webinar, go to the OHA Events Registration Page.
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 jewelry and rosary beads are killing workers
 We have been offered a donation of 5 Gilair-5 tri-mode sampling pumps plus a Dri-Cal calibrator and rotameter. The donor wants to make these available for non-profit use and will pay for shipping . If you represent or know of a group that can make good use of these pumps, please send an email to info@whwb.org by April 1. In your email, please specify how and when the recipient will use the pumps, how users have been or will be trained to use them and how they will be maintained to ensure they remain operational for as long as possible. If you are interested in being trained by WHWB in the use of the pumps, please let us know that too. We will consider all requests before making a decision on the disposition of this equipment. Also, please let us know if there is other occupational hygiene equipment you would like to obtain for non-profit purposes, as we may be receiving other donations in future.
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 2009, this seminar series has been recognized as eligible for CM credit from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene and for RM points from the Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists. A certificate of attendance will be mailed to attendees who complete an evaluation form. Physician attendees can obtain continuing education units (CEUs) through the UNC-Chapel Hill for a nominal fee.
The April 3rd seminar is titled Chromosome 5 and 7 Abnormalities in Oncology Personnel Handling Anti-Cancer Drugs and will be presented by Melissa McDiarmid, MD, MPH. The announcement for this seminar can be downloaded as a pdf file here.
Seminar announcements are sent via email at least a week prior to the 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.
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 user names have been deleted from the registration list and we have implemented a Captcha system requirement at registration to reduce the probability of spambot registrations in future. We hope that this will not inconvenience future registrants.
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