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AIHA releases updated “Facts about Mold” brochure

January 5, 2012

Mold's increasing importance as a public health issue has led to significant updates in the American Industrial Hygiene Association's (AIHA) "Facts About Mold" brochure, which has been newly released.

How to assess reproductive risks

New standards will revolutionize best practices

Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP

January 4, 2012

In 1991, the U.S. Supreme Court in UAW v. Johnson Controls established that employers have the obligation to fully inform a woman of workplace risks to pregnancy.

EPA urges homeowners to act during National Radon Month

21,000 Americans die from radon related lung cancer each year

January 4, 2012

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging Americans this month, as part of National Radon Action Month, to take simple and affordable steps to test their homes for harmful levels of radon gas.

Odorless & invisible

Know the risks of radiation

Bobby Sheikhan

January 4, 2012

Radiation has added a new dimension to the industrial hygienist’s role — a dimension that includes extreme time pressure in response, identification, isolation and protection.

Minimize pain and suffering

Be proactive: Conduct emergency shower drills

Casey Hayes

January 4, 2012

No one plans on being involved in an industrial accident, it just happens.

Healh experts worry that flu research will unleash new dangers

January 3, 2012

The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned that in order to conduct certain kinds of research into the H5N1 influenza virus, scientists could be creating newer and more dangerous forms of the virus that could ultimately pose a risk to public health.

Many young children overdosing on medicines at home

Parents reminded to keep meds “Up and Away and Out of Sight”

January 2, 2012

Each year, one of every 150 two–year–olds visits an emergency department in the United States for an unintentional medication overdose, most often after finding and eating or drinking medicines without adult supervision.

Manufacturers say new EPA rule will cost jobs

December 30, 2011

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has come out in opposition to the Utility MACT rule released recently by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

U.S. Chamber criticizes EPA's rule for coal-fired plants

December 29, 2011

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the MACT rule recently issued by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is unrealistic and will have a negative impact on the economy and the reliability of electricity.

Public health experts back standards for coal-burning plants

December 27, 2011

The American Public Health Association is endorsing the new standards released recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that would strengthen safeguards against toxic pollutants, including mercury, emitted from coal-burning power plants for the first time.