Several high-profile government policy issues in the industrial hygiene and occupational health and safety field will be featured at the 2014 AIHA Fall Conference, coming up Oct. 18-22 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Washington, D.C.

In its quest to connect with occupational and environmental health and safety professionals in China, AIHA has launched a Chinese website: www.AIHAChina.org.

San Diego CA - On the first day of the National Safety Congress and Expo here in San Diego it’s apparent by strolling the expo aisles and talking with vendors that many are adapting an approach to the broad safety marketplace that emphasizes PPE for specific vertical markets.

The National Safety Council (NSC) today presented the 2014 Robert W. Campbell Award to Indiana-based Cummins Inc. at the NSC Congress & Expo, the world’s largest annual gathering of safety and health professionals. Campbell Award winners are an elite group of organizations committed to continuous improvement.

From ASSE’s top-notch education programs, to unmatched networking opportunities, to the expo’s impressive collection of the latest OSH products and services – Safety 2015 is full of BIG occasions.

The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) has teamed up with the Malaysian Industrial Hygiene Association (MIHA) to co-sponsor the AIHA/MIHA Asia Pacific OH + EHS Conference + Exhibition, a high-quality education and training event for IH and OEHS professionals from around the world.

Following the opening of the online registration in July 2014, exhibitor applications for A+A 2015, International Trade Fair with Congress for Safety, Security and Health at Work, have been received at a steady rate. “The last A+A staging attracted a record number of 63,500 trade visitors from nearly 70 countries, impressively establishing A+A as the number one tradeshow on occupational health and safety.

By ISHN Editor Dave Johnson, reporting from the annual VPPPA conference: Mistakes will happen, it’s human error, people are people working within the context of systems, so GE takes people out of the equation and focuses on risk, the risks of the systems that employees work within, said Ann R. Klee, the VP for Environment, Health and Safety at GE, speaking at the opening session of the 30^th annual meeting of the Voluntary Protection Program Participants’ Association (VPPPA), in National Harbor, MD, outside of Washington DC.