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Synergist Blog

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.​​

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February 9, 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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  • 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
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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
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  • 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
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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 20, 2022
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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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December 15, 2022
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AIHA’s Top 22 Accomplishments of 2022

As 2022 winds down, it’s a good time to summarize some of the major accomplishments at AIHA this past year. Here are AIHA’s top 22 achievements of 2022.
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December 13, 2022
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The Secret’s Out: AIHA’s Members Are Some of the Most Knowledgeable, Influential Experts in the World 

Policymakers throughout the nation are recognizing something AIHA has known for a long time—that the association's members are some of the most knowledgeable and influential experts in the world.
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