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Industrial
Hygiene Insights — March 2009 |
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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
EHS Today editorial team. |
In This
Issue:
1. Building a Bridge
to Safety Excellence: The Role of Culture
2. Obama's
FY 2010 Budget Allocates $13.3 Billion to Labor Department
3. AIHA Forms
Limited Liability Companies for Laboratory Programs
4. NRR: Now Really
Relevant
5. EPA Ordered to
Reconsider 2006 Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter
1. Building a Bridge to Safety Excellence: The
Role of Culture
There is a lot of talk about creating safety excellence and the role
of culture in such efforts. Some suggest that culture is the magic cure
for all safety ills. others assert that more traditional safety efforts
and good safety management are the intergral components of a safety
culture.
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3. AIHA Forms Limited Liability Companies for
Laboratory Programs
The American Industrial Hygiene Association has reorganized its
legacy Laboratory Quality Assurance Programs (LQAP) into three separate
limited liability companies (LLCs). Effective immediately, AIHA's
laboratory activities, once housed under LQAP, will be operated by:
AIHA Laboratory Accreditation Programs LLC, AIHA Registry Programs LLC
and AIHA Proficiency Analytical Testing Programs LLC.
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4. NRR: Now Really Relevant
In an effort to bring the noise reduction rating for hearing
protection more in line with real-world usage, the Environmental
Protection Agency is expected to announce a change in rating systems
very soon. Are you ready?
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Understanding NFPA 70E and the Arc Flash
Hazard
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT
Sponsored by: Westex, Inc.
Presenter: Scott M. Margolin, International Technical
Director, Westex
During this webinar, attendees will learn about the four primary
subjects essential to understanding, and protecting against, the arc
flash hazard in an industrial workplace. Causes and consequences of
arc flash are examined, with emphasis on historical data, real
accidents, body burn injury and non-flame resistant vs flame resistant
clothing.
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The Courage to Actively Care
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Time: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT
Sponsored by: Coastal
Featuring: Dr. Geller, Ph.D., Alumni Distinguished
Professor, Virginia Tech, Senior Partner, Safety Performance
Solutions
During this webinar, Dr. Geller will discuss Interpersonal
Intervention
and Courage, How Can Courage Be Encouraged, and
Culture and The Courage
To Actively Care. He will examine excuses and barriers given
for the
lack of large-scale application of effective interpersonal
interventions. Three dimensions of human dynamics related to
leadership
will be explained: Competence, Commitment, and Courage.
Register Now!
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Gas Flow
Measurement
EHS Today Editor Sandy Smith speaks to Scott Calvert, vice
president of Bios International Corp., to learn why
primary standards and specific accreditations are so important in
primary gas flow measurement. Bios International is a world leader in
gas flow measurement and provides products and services for
professionals in the fields of occupational health and safety,
environmental protection, industrial process control and more.
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