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In February 2017, I participated in an open call with the Industrial Hygiene Practice Specialty (IHPS) of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) about industrial hygiene monitoring considerations in health settings. If you missed it, you can access the video and handout from the IHPS website. Link to the video:  https://vimeo.com/202830157  Hear the #industrioushygienist speak about industrial hygiene in healthcare! The gist of the presentation / open call was: "H ealthcare workers are at risk for a variety of occupational exposures to chemical hazards, including hazardous drugs, anesthetic gases, and disinfectants. While resources exist for guidance on assessing occupational exposures to these hazards, there is no single resource for safety professionals in healthcare settings to use in developing a defensible industrial hygiene (IH) monitoring program." We are working on a series of open calls to address some of the questions from attendees, so watch for that inf...

I've been pleasantly busy with the new job (not a surprise: being a professor is hard work) and haven't had much time to devote to blogging. I'll have some more exciting new content as summer gets closer. I just found out that my proposal to speak at the Pacific Northwest AIHA Spring Symposium was accepted, so that is pretty spiffy. I'll be speaking for an hour on "Using Continuity of Operations Planning to Improve Your EH&S Program" in Lacey, WA on April 19, 2017. Since the Puget Sound ASSE's PDC is on my campus, I'll also be attending that on May 5, 2017. I'm looking forward to meeting Pacific Northwest safety professionals and alumni from Central Washington University's Safety and Health Management (SHM) program. Go Wildcats! My co-author and I have been hard at work completing our proceedings paper and presentation for # Safety2017 in Denver, CO. If you'll be at the conference, we'd love to have you attend our presentation o...