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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 4, 2019
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Opportunities for Hands-On IH Education

Is professional development on your list of 2019 goals? AIHA offers several opportunities to earn contact hours and expand your IH/OEHS knowledge. Depending on what you’d like to learn, there are two different tracks for face-to-face industrial hygie...
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January 30, 2019
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  • The Monthly Weekly

Media, Legislation Keep Focus on Firefighters and Cancer

Part of my job as senior editor of The Synergist is to keep up with media coverage of the industrial hygiene and occupational health and safety industries. The association between firefighting and cancer is one topic that has frequently bubbled to th...
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January 24, 2019
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  • Serial

Ensuring Protection of Postal Employees

Sponsored by OHD, Inc. In today's world, a fingerprint can be the difference between multiple deaths and a man locked safely away from the public. In November, a Florida man was charged with sending homemade pipe bombs to political figures such as fo...
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January 22, 2019
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  • Washington Insider

AIHA’s Public Policy Agenda for 2019-2020

Only a few weeks ago, the tolling of the new year echoed throughout the world, calling each person to reflect in a spirit of renewal. Shortly thereafter, legislatures around the country and in our nation’s capital began their sessions. Filled with th...
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January 17, 2019
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  • AIHA University

Help Your Career with Two Webinars from AIHA

In today’s constantly changing world, continuing education is a must for those who want to stay current with the latest developments, skills, and technologies needed for their fields. For an IH/OEHS professional, continuing education is even more cri...
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January 15, 2019
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Serial

Emergency Preparedness and Response after Crisis and Catastrophe

Responding to crises poses a wide variety of challenges for industrial hygienists. At AIHce EXP 2018, attendees were given a window into three very different crisis response situations and shared their lessons learned. Subway Release John Archer, MS,...
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January 10, 2019
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  • AIHA University

Don’t Miss Out on eLearning

By now you are aware of AIHA’s eLearning subscription packages, and some of you have already subscribed and benefited from the early-bird special we ran at the end of 2018. Kudos to you! However, you might be pushing it off for later—or even thinking...
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January 7, 2019
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  • AIHA University

SPARKtalks to Fire Up Education at AIHce EXP

This post was originally published to the AIHce EXP Digest. For more information about AIHce EXP 2019, visit the conference website. At AIHA, providing training solutions for every industrial hygienist and occupational and environmental health and sa...
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December 20, 2018
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Serial

The Season of Deadlines

We all feel a certain adrenaline rush during the last days of December. For some, it’s because the holidays are here, and that means more time with the family. For me, it’s because of deadlines. Yes…deadlines. There’s the deadline to find the perfect...
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December 18, 2018
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  • Serial

Respirable Crystalline Silica: Low-Cost Controls and Respirator Fit Tests

Natalie Fox, CIH, CSP, a senior manager at Ramboll, discussed effectively reducing employee exposures to respirable crystalline silica at AIHce EXP 2018 in Philadelphia, Pa. Fox was challenged to control exposures at two glass manufacturing faciliti...
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December 11, 2018
  • Synergist Blog,
  • The Membership Experience

#IAMIH Student Spotlight: Brenna Hogan

The #IAMIH series seeks to highlight the individuals who are the backbone of AIHA and the industrial hygiene profession. It goes without saying that the future of the industry depends on its students and early career professionals. AIHA recognizes th...
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December 6, 2018
  • Synergist Blog,
  • Serial

IH Solutions to the Gift Problem

Finding the perfect gift for a family member, a friend, or even a colleague can be an unnerving mission. To help you find the perfect gift,because gifts should be all about fun, we have rounded up a few ideas that might be the ideal gift for the IH o...
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