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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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December 8, 2020
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  • Serial

Decision-Making in Managing Risks: Navigating the Prickly and the Paradoxical

Industrial hygienists must find a method to evaluate and prioritize risks at their organizations before recommending health or safety interventions. Navigating risk is not always clear, so IHs benefit from learning frameworks for decision-making.
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December 3, 2020
  • Synergist Blog,
  • The Membership Experience

Reach Your IH and OEHS Career Goals with AIHA Membership

As you reflect on the end of 2020, you may ask yourself whether you’ve met your professional development goals. If you conclude that you want to do more in the new year, AIHA offers many opportunities to contribute to the industrial hygiene field.
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December 1, 2020
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  • AIHA University

AIHA University's Year in Review

2020 brought AIHA staff, members, and allied partners closer together, reinforcing the role of virtual education in training industrial hygiene professionals. Here, AIHA's Education and Technical Initiative Department shares its 2020 highlights.
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November 19, 2020
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Serial

BioErgo Surveillance: New Approaches for Total Worker Health

In the past two decades, the abilities, reach, and accessibility of biometric and bioergonomic sensors have greatly expanded. Industrial hygienists have only recently begun to mobilize these resources to protect and promote worker health.
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November 17, 2020
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Washington Insider

The Untold Story of the 2020 Elections

Recent election news has focused most on the parties that gained, lost, or maintained power, but there's a deeper story to be told: that the party in power matters less than the person in power. In other words, people and relationships matter.
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November 12, 2020
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Serial

The Role of the NextGen IH in TWH, TWE, and TEH

As work patterns and environments change, the lines drawn between the workplace, home, and community blur. The frameworks Total Worker Health, Total Worker Exposure, and Total Exposure Health help IHs protect worker health amid a changing workplace.
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November 10, 2020
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Serial

Realigning Strategies to Better Serve Members in the Pandemic

While many professional associations have struggled, the COVID-19 pandemic thrust AIHA into the national spotlight. AIHA has turned the challenges into an opportunity to connect with and motivate its members.
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November 5, 2020
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Touchstone ... by Larry Sloan

EHS Generalists: Key Allied Partners in Occupational Health

Did you know that AIHA is responsible for oversight of the ABET academic criteria not only for industrial hygiene programs, but also for environmental health and safety programs? AIHA is working with ASSP to review and update the EHS criteria.
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November 3, 2020
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Serial

The Future of Work and the Reimagined Industrial Hygiene Profession

The world is entering the fourth industrial revolution and consequently, the nature of work is changing. To account for future realities, the industrial hygiene profession will need to look somewhat different than it does today.
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October 29, 2020
  • Synergist Blog,
  • The Membership Experience

Helping Those Who Help Us

During my Coast Guard service, I began working to protect first responders from benzene hazards during oil spill cleanups. This was my entry into industrial hygiene, and in my civilian career, protecting first responders is still part of my job.
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October 27, 2020
  • Synergist Blog,
  • AIHA University

How to Use the New Best Practice Guide for Leading Health Metrics in Occupational Health and Safety Programs

Earlier this month, AIHA published a guidance document on leading health metrics in OEHS developed by the association through the Center for Safety and Health Sustainability. Here, a member of the team that created the guide writes on how to use it.
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October 22, 2020
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  • The Membership Experience

Should I Renew My Membership?

On the fence about whether to renew your AIHA national membership for 2021? Whatever your dilemma, I would like to reassure you of the value of your volunteering commitment: AIHA's accomplishments this year would not have happened without you.
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