Correctional Institutions and Human Health Risk
The Long-Term Benefits of Performing a Facility Health Risk Assessment
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CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND HUMAN HEALTH RISK
THE LONG-TERM BENEFITS OF PERFORMING A FACILITY HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT
In 2020, more than 5 million individuals were housed in some type of correctional institution (CI) with an estimated 402,000 correction officers and jailers watching over them. With CIs routinely facing overcrowding, indoor environmental quality issues can exacerbate occupants’ health impacts.
BY ALEXIS JENNINGS AND ALEX LEBEAU
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RECONSTRUCTING A MODELING TOOL
INDUSTRIAL HYGIENISTS’ JOURNEY TO IMPROVING COMPANY CONTROL BANDING
Two industrial hygienists tasked with implementing exposure assessment strategies in their organizations recently set out to improve their companies’ existing control banding systems. Here, they share the story of how they came to adapt the Advanced REACH Tool for application as an internal qualitative assessment tool.
BY BRIAN SCHMIDT AND NATHALIE ARGENTIN
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WASTE NOT
WORKERS AT THE HEART OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
The circular economy is a systemic approach intended to eliminate waste in materials and energy flows throughout extraction, production, use, and disposal, and to repurpose outputs as useful inputs to other products. As sustainable practices become more popular and practical, the circular economy will introduce additional hazards and considerations for the occupational health expert.BY MARY O’REILLY, AUBREY ARAIN, AND ERICA DOMBROWSKI
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CONTRIBUTORS
ALEXIS JENNINGS, FEATURE AUTHOR
Alexis Jennings, MPH, is an environmental toxicologist at Exposure Assessment Consulting LLC in Orlando, Florida.
BRIAN SCHMIDT, FEATURE AUTHOR
Brian Schmidt, MSc OH, MSc Tox, CMFOH, is the global industrial hygiene lead at Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG
in Switzerland.
MARY O’REILLY, FEATURE AUTHOR
Mary O’Reilly, PhD, CIH, CPE, FAIHA, is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Albany School of Public Health,
current president of Workplace Health Without Borders, and chair of the AIHA Stewardship and Sustainability Committee.
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