TREASURER-ELECT
Lucinette Alvarado, MS, CIH
Corporate CIH/Technical Services Manager
SKC Inc.
Eighty-Four, Pennsylvania
The AIHA initiative that excites me the most is “Defining the Science.” Our science is more than abstract concepts of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling hazards; it is applying these concepts to ensure workers return home safely. This is exciting because it extends the reach of OEHS science and practice beyond the workplace/worker and into the home/community. Our science and practice are essential to people’s lives.
The “Defining the Science” initiative will provide clarification on what OEHS professionals do. It’s exciting to me because it is about matching research and answers with practitioners in an endless cycle of improvement and growth for both. In addition, many groups, including AIHA, ACGIH, and stakeholders, are working together in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to address gaps in practical knowledge.
I have served as a Board director-at-large for four years and would like to continue as treasurer-elect. In addition to treasurer duties, I would help to guide all involved toward engagement with research topics that are critical to AIHA’s growth as well as the growth in the knowledge of practitioners. I would expand the “Defining the Science” initiative by facilitating the existing Advisory Group and providing ideas to develop a standing OEHS research-to-practice agenda.
I’m ready to work together to define the science of our profession.
The “Defining the Science” initiative will provide clarification on what OEHS professionals do. It’s exciting to me because it is about matching research and answers with practitioners in an endless cycle of improvement and growth for both. In addition, many groups, including AIHA, ACGIH, and stakeholders, are working together in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to address gaps in practical knowledge.
I have served as a Board director-at-large for four years and would like to continue as treasurer-elect. In addition to treasurer duties, I would help to guide all involved toward engagement with research topics that are critical to AIHA’s growth as well as the growth in the knowledge of practitioners. I would expand the “Defining the Science” initiative by facilitating the existing Advisory Group and providing ideas to develop a standing OEHS research-to-practice agenda.
I’m ready to work together to define the science of our profession.
TREASURER-ELECT
Brian B. Bethel, CIH, CSP
Global People Health & Safety
SC Johnson
Racine, Wisconsin
Of the four initiatives AIHA has launched to improve the science and practice of industrial hygiene, I am most excited about our initiative to improve exposure judgments. I say this because data shows that our exposure judgments are often inaccurate, and worse, often underestimate actual exposures. By developing improved tools and education for our members in the use of a systematic approach to exposure judgment, we will start to close the gap between perceived and actual exposure. This will better serve the workers and communities our profession serves.
As treasurer, the role I would play in supporting all the initiatives, including improved exposure judgment, is by executing my fiduciary responsibility to the members and the organization to control spending and allocate funding to support the mission of the organization. This includes the prudent investment of our reserves to not only ensure the financial stability of AIHA but to generate investment income that can then be used to support our initiatives. Working with the Finance Committee, we can direct the resources of AIHA to support the necessary research and activities to drive these initiatives with no direct financial burden to the members through increased dues and fees.