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David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, a front-runner in the race to
head OSHA, offered the Jeffrey S. Lee Lecture on the opening day of the
American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo in Toronto this week.
According to Michaels, a strategy of “manufacturing uncertainty”
successfully has been used by polluters and the manufacturers of
dangerous products to oppose public health and environmental
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According to research presented at the 2009 American
Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo, your office chair can affect
more than your posture or comfort – it also might lower your heart
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During the opening session at the American Industrial Hygiene
Conference and Expo (AIHce) in Toronto on June 1, the American
Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and the American Conference of
Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) announced plans to form a new
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While many at-home safety tips focus on ways to keep toddlers
and young children safe from accidental injuries in the home, University
of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) psychologist David Schwebel, Ph.D., says
that teen safety should not be overlooked.
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Peter Greaney, M.D., identified two valuable lessons he has
learned in his career as an occupational consultant: First, there are a
lot of trivial injuries, and secondly, injured employees who return to
work always do better physically and mentally than those who
don't.
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More research and information sharing is needed to better
understand nanotechnology hazards, said Kristen Kulinowski, Ph.D., in
her keynote presentation June 3 at AIHce, where she unveiled a new wiki
guide designed to help disseminate information about nanotechnology
hazards in the occupational setting.
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