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Industrial
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Welcome to IH
Insights, the monthly electronic newsletter for industrial
hygiene practitioners. Each issue brings you analysis and
commentary
from our contributing editors, all veteran industrial
hygienists, plus
news on compliance, research, and professional practice from the
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In This
Issue:
1. ALARA and
Chemical Exposure: A Prudent Practice
2. EPA
Revises Air Permit Policy for Aggregating Facility Changes
3. CDC Director
Resigns
4. Qualitative
Differences in OSHA Outreach Training Course Providers
5. MSHA: Mine
Deaths Fell to All-Time Low in 2008
6. Tyson Foods
Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Pay $500,000 Fine for Violation that Led to
Worker Fatality
2. EPA Revises Air Permit Policy for
Aggregating Facility Changes
EPA has issued a final rule under the New Source Review (NSR)
program that revises the agency’s policy on aggregation. Under the new
rule, a facility should only group together, or aggregate, emissions
from multiple related changes into one single project if those
activities are substantially related.
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3. CDC Director Resigns
Dr. Julie L. Gerberding resigned from her post as director of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the request of the
Obama administration. Her resignation will be effective Jan. 20.
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5. MSHA: Mine Deaths Fell to All-Time Low in
2008
On Jan. 8, MSHA released preliminary data showing that mine
fatalities in 2008 declined 31 percent from 2007 to drop to an all-time
low. Metal/nonmetal mines recorded the lowest level of fatalities in
that sector of mining since statistics were first recorded in 1910, and
the fatality level in coal mines was the lowest recorded number since
2005.
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Associate Editor Laura Walter shares some tips to celebrate the
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