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January 22, 2026
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Toward Educational and Career Enrichment

When AIHA plans for the future, we typically focus on a three-year time horizon. Since 2026 marks the midpoint of our current strategic plan, now is a good time to assess the work we’ve done toward our goals and what we’re aiming to achieve.
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December 10, 2025
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A Structured Approach to Public Policy

Given AIHA’s diverse membership and broad range of interests, organizing our public policy efforts can be a challenge. How do we ensure our activities are grounded in members’ experiences?
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October 16, 2025
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Progress on Grand Challenges

In 2020, the AIHA Board of Directors approved a project to develop “grand challenges”: ambitious but achievable goals intended to address significant problems in the occupational and environmental health and safety profession.
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August 14, 2025
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Supporting a Healthy OHS Ecosystem

AIHA has launched a new advocacy campaign, our fourth of the year. While our previous campaigns focused primarily on NIOSH, we are broadening our efforts to encompass the entire OHS ecosystem.
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July 17, 2025
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Funding the Future

With cuts to NIOSH jeopardizing support for many students in industrial hygiene and occupational and environmental health and safety, the Board of Certified Safety Professionals announced a donation to support students and early-career professionals.
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June 26, 2025
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Restoring NIOSH: Progress and Pressure

Since AIHA launched our Restore NIOSH campaigns, thousands of members, OEHS professionals, and others have heeded our calls, voiced their support for the agency, and asked their elected representatives to stand up for worker health and safety.
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June 5, 2025
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Wrapping Up Our Federal Grants

Earlier this year, President Trump signed executive orders calling for the elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in government agencies and federally funded projects. To reduce our liability, AIHA pursued two courses of action.
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April 17, 2025
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Standing with NIOSH

Earlier this month, we learned the harsh news that staffing cuts will effectively dismantle NIOSH. We simply cannot ignore what the loss of NIOSH means for AIHA and the broader implications for the profession.
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March 20, 2025
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Advocacy in a Time of Unprecedented Change

In two short months, the new presidential administration has initiated tremendous changes across many areas of the federal government. Some changes, directly or indirectly, will affect or are already affecting AIHA.
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October 17, 2024
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Climate Action and Worker Health

During the week of September 23, AIHA CEO Larry Slaon attended a meeting of the National Commission on Climate and Workforce Health in New York City. The meeting empowered commissioners to actively shape their 2025 agenda across key areas.
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August 15, 2024
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Calling All Beta Testers

Few AIHA projects have generated as much excitement as the Heat Stress Mobile App, which calculates the user's adjusted WBGT index and recommends measures for mitigating or preventing heat stress. A beta version of the app was released in June.
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June 6, 2024
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Helping Business Leaders Meet the Challenges of Climate Change

In April, AIHA CEO Larry Sloan was invited to join the newly formed National Commission on Climate and Workforce Health, founded to help employers assess threats to human health and business posed by climate change.
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