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November 11, 2021
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AIHA’s Vaccination or Proof of Negative Test Policy for Face-to-Face Meetings

As of Nov. 8, AIHA has determined that the best course of action for all face-to-face meetings in the foreseeable future is to require all attendees to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test within three days of the event.
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October 12, 2021
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AIHA’s New Strategic Plan: The Awareness Domain

A previous post introduced the five domains of AIHA's new strategic plan: community, awareness, advancement and dissemination of knowledge, integrity of professional practice, and advocacy. This post highlights the second domain: awareness.
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September 21, 2021
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AIHA’s New Strategic Plan: The Community Domain

A previous post introduced the five domains of AIHA’s new strategic plan: community, awareness, advancement and dissemination of knowledge, integrity of professional practice, and advocacy. This post highlights the first domain: community.
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August 19, 2021
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Announcing AIHA’s New Strategic Plan

In July, the AIHA Board of Directors approved our new strategic plan for 2022–2024. In this post, I’ll explain the process for creating the new plan and spotlight some of the high-level changes.
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April 27, 2021
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Preparing for Our Next Strategic Plan

Recently, AIHA conducted a brief survey of approximately one thousand members, representing various demographic groups, to identify issues to consider as part of our efforts to update the association’s strategic plan for 2022–2024.
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April 1, 2021
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Changing the Paradigm of Health in the Post-Pandemic Workplace

Recall what happened after September 11, 2001: that horrific day ushered in transformational changes that became “the new normal.” So, what will the new normal feel like after we get through the worst of the COVID pandemic?
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March 2, 2021
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Leading Health Metrics: A Step Toward Sustainable, Ethical Corporate Governance

Leading health metrics measure some exposure, factor, risk, program, or control that occurs or exists before an unwanted health outcome.
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January 14, 2021
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Expanding Our Reach Abroad

AIHA’s criteria for prioritizing support for specific countries and regions reflect AIHA’s two top-level objectives for international engagement: altruism and business development.
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December 17, 2020
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The Next Level of IH/OEHS Research

As advocates for the IH/OEHS profession, AIHA means to advance IH/OEHS knowledge and application by defining a research-to-practice agenda, which will be managed by the new Defining the Science Advisory Group.
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November 5, 2020
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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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October 15, 2020
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Filling the Pipeline

The IH Professional Pathway program, which aligns AIHA's resources with the profession's various career stages, encourages and supports the attainment of credentials and certifications like the CIH and AIHA's e-certificate and registry programs.
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September 17, 2020
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Training Technicians

A 2011 NIOSH-commissioned report found that employers planned to hire more than twice as many OEHS professionals as were expected to graduate from universities in the U.S. AIHA plans to close the gap by educating often-overlooked OEHS technicians.
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