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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. AIHA, ACGIH
Plan New Strategic Alliance
2. Predicting the
Future by Creating It
3. Sustainable
Development Beyond Borders
4. Wiki to Share
Information about Global EHS Issues of Nanotechnology
5. The
Injury/Illness Management Audit Key to Spotting Trends
6. Doubt
Is Their Product: Manufactured Uncertainty and Public Health
1. AIHA, ACGIH Plan New Strategic Alliance
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
strategic alliance designed to help the two organizations work together
more closely.
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2. Predicting the Future by Creating It
What do bionic body parts, moon-roving robots, space tourists and
industrial hygiene have in common? According to AIHce keynote speaker
Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., the answer is simple: revolution through
incentive competition.
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3. Sustainable Development Beyond
Borders
Sustainable development is more than a greening trend and instead
reflects the core ways of making decisions, according to keynote speaker
Edward L. Quevedo, JD, at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and
Expo (AIHce) in Toronto.
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6. Doubt Is Their Product: Manufactured
Uncertainty and Public Health
Making some consultants in the room squirm, David Michaels, Ph.D.,
MPH, a front-runner in the race to head OSHA, noted during the Jeffrey
S. Lee Lecture on the opening day of the American Industrial Hygiene
Conference and Expo in Toronto that a strategy of “manufacturing
uncertainty” successfully has been used by polluters and the
manufacturers of dangerous products to oppose public health and
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support.”
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