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SynergistNOW

SynergistNOW, a blog created and delivered by the American Industrial Hygiene Association, offers ideas, insights, and perspectives on important topics affecting industrial and occupational hygiene professionals, written by and for experienced IH/OHs, researchers, academics, and AIHA leaders.​​


The opinions, claims, conclusions, and positions expressed on this blog are those of the author or person quoted and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors, AIHA®, The Synergist®, or SynergistNOW.

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Touchstone... by Larry Sloan: Perspectives from AIHA's CEO.

The Membership Experience: The ins and outs of AIHA membership.

I Am IH: Interviews with AIHA members.

Dialogues: Q&As with IH leaders.

Serial: Installments on important issues in IH.

The Monthly Weekly: Highlights from the previous month's news published in the Synergist Weekly.

The Toolbox: Technical topics.

Women in IH: Perspectives from the WIH community.

AIHA University: The latest educational offerings from AIHA.

Washington Insider: Perspectives from AIHA's Government Relations director.

Essentials Series: Installments from AIHA'sEssentials ebook series.

February 14, 2023
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Touchstone ... by Larry Sloan

Top Trends in OEHS

AIHA strives to stay on top of the constantly shifting OEHS environment so we can help our members respond quickly to challenges and opportunities.
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February 9, 2023
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Essentials Series

Communicating Risk Through Storytelling

Stories are powerful tools for communicating and contextualizing information, making sense or creating meaning, and building trust and relationships. Jonathan Klane aims to teach OEHS professionals to use stories to communicate about safety and risk.
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February 7, 2023
  • Synergist Blog,
  • AIHce EXP

The Effects of Climate Change on OEHS—And How OEHS Professionals Can Prepare

Many OEHS professionals feel that climate change falls outside their purview. But even the most traditional industrial hygiene concerns will likely become more severe and affect more people as climate change progresses.
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January 31, 2023
  • Synergist Blog,
  • AIHA University

Updates to AIHA’s Content Priorities

Developing professional and educational content that supports the needs of the practicing industrial hygienist is a critical responsibility of AIHA. The Content Portfolio Advisory Group has identified priority areas for content development.
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January 26, 2023
  • Synergist Blog,
  • AIHce EXP

Communicating Risk With Empathy

OEHS professionals’ role of identifying and managing hazards gives them a structure for communicating risk, but they often approach it through a regulatory lens. Here, Mike Larrañaga and Perry Logan discuss communicating risk with empathy.
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January 24, 2023
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Serial

The Intersection of Toxicology and Industrial Hygiene 

To advance the integration of exposure, toxicological and epidemiological principles, and research approaches, the Society of Toxicology has endorsed six scientific sessions for the upcoming 2023 SOT Annual Meeting and ToxExpo.
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January 19, 2023
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Essentials Series

Influencing Health and Safety Solutions

If you’re an OEHS professional with ideas to improve health and safety, you know that your ideas are technically sound and backed up by science. But persuading everyone else to adopt your ideas might feel like you’re trying to sell them something.
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January 17, 2023
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Essentials Series

Building OEHS Programs as an Early Career Professional 

Margretta Murphy, CIH, CSP, is a relatively young OEHS professional. When she started a new job as a safety manager, she became responsible for building up programs to protect her employer's field teams from hazards.
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January 12, 2023
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Touchstone ... by Larry Sloan

AIHA Volunteers: Working in Concert 

Over the past several years, AIHA has seen a proliferation of new national-level advisory groups and project teams that provide the strategic guidance needed to advance the many priorities under the AIHA strategic plan.
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January 10, 2023
  • Synergist Blog,
  • AIHce EXP

Rockets and Risk Communication: Influencing Safety at a National Laboratory 

Health physicist Brian Thomson and environmental health and safety professional Cynthia Backlund, MS, CIH, CSP, share how teaching influencing and communication skills can help improve health and safety at a U.S. national laboratory.
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December 22, 2022

Ways to Utilize Your Membership

If you haven’t already renewed your membership, then now is the best time to secure another year of world-class publications, top-notch webinars and courses, and opportunities for leadership growth in over sixty volunteer and working groups.
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December 20, 2022
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Serial

Investigating Inhalation Exposures and Respiratory Health in Coffee Workers: A Compilation of Research Studies

In a recent series of papers, researchers explore the respiratory health consequences of exposures across the span of the coffee industry.
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