The American Industrial Hygiene Association® (AIHA), announced the new members of its Board of Directors for 2018. The new Board members will be inducted at AIHA's Annual Business Meeting on Wednesday, May 23, during the 2018 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition (AIHce EXP) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The 2018 Safety in Action™ Icon honorees were officially announced today, with the awards presentation taking place during the 2018 Safety in Action Conference on March 15 in Orlando, FL. The 2018 recipients are: • Donnie Massey, Shell Oil - Donnie is a Behavioral Safety Specialist for Shell Oil based out of Mississippi. His co-workers say, “When referring to [Shell’s] behavior-based safety program, [Donnie’s] name is synonymous.” They say he always takes the “initiative to challenge the status quo” and takes “personal responsibility with his safety leadership role within our company.”

The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) is now accepting applications for the 2018 Future Leaders Institute, which will be held at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C., Sept. 21-23. The Future Leaders Institute provides critical leadership training and professional development opportunities for industrial hygiene/occupational health (IH/OH) professionals within the first 15 years of their career, particularly those from countries or organizations where such opportunities do not exist.

By registering early, attendees can save $100 on their full in-person or virtual registration. But the advance rate is only available through March 18, 2018! A full registration includes access to: General Sessions, all AIHce EXP 2018 educational sessions (Monday through Wednesday), OnDemand for all authorized educational sessions (through December 2018), the CareerAdvantage Development Fair, the Expo Hall, numerous networking opportunities, and more.

David B. West, CSP, ASP, P.E., CHMM, Examinations Manager at the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, has been appointed to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP).

We live, we love, we learn, and we leave a legacy.” This profound quotation from Stephen R. Covey has fueled my motivation to keep teaching at Virginia Tech well beyond retirement age and a comfortable pension.

Safety professionals, “electrical safety ambassadors” and would-be electrical workers may want to tune into a Twitter Chat next week hosted by the Electrical Safety Foundation International’s (ESFI) Communications Committee.

AIHce EXP is not just a conference…it is an EXPerience. From a streamlined education program, to networking opportunities with thousands of IH/OH professionals, AIHce EXP focuses on the important trends, needs, and research that impact worker health. The varied array of quality, peer-reviewed presentations provides multiple pathways to learning including: general sessions, lectures, poster presentations, interactive Hub presentations, exhibitor learning pavilion sessions, and pre-conference and post-conference Professional Development Courses (PDCs).

Principals of ProAct Safety and best-selling authors Shawn M. Galloway and Terry L. Mathis announce their newly-released audiobook, Lean Behavior-Based Safety: BBS for Today's Realities. Lean Behavior-Based Safety is an updated model to traditional BBS, introduced in 2001 with a focus on providing new value with more efficient, safer work.

The Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have formed an alliance to provide information and guidance to safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) practitioners and other stakeholders so they can best protect workers’ safety and health.