CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
VERONICA STANLEY, FEATURE AUTHOR
Veronica Stanley, MSPH, CIH, CSP, CESCP, is a safety and occupational health specialist for U.S. Army Medical Command, Atlantic, and owner of Hygiene Health and Safety Consulting LLC in Brookville, Md.
BLAKE MCGOWAN, FEATURE AUTHOR Blake McGowan, CPE, is a managing consultant for Humantech.
EDUARDO SHAW, FEATURE AUTHOR
Eduardo Shaw, CIH, CSP, is the head of occupational health and safety for Latin America at Ericsson, based in Panama.
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SOURCES OF CONFUSION
COMPLIANCE PITFALLS FOR COMMON WORKPLACE CHEMICALS UNDER MULTIAGENCY JURISDICTION
Occupational health and safety professionals are responsible for communicating with workers about regulatory requirements, and this task becomes more challenging when the governing federal agencies have different definitions for applicable terms.
BY VERONICA STANLEY
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THE CASE FOR ERGONOMICS
COMMUNICATING VALUE TO BUSINESS STAKEHOLDERS
Many occupational and environmental health and safety professionals fail to get ergonomics improvements approved at their companies. Their proposals often end up at the bottom of the trash—either literally or figuratively. How can OEHS professionals successfully communicate the value of ergonomics to management?
BY BLAKE MCGOWAN
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THE EAR POISONS
Noise is not the only etiology of hearing loss. Enter ototoxicants—chemical substances that cause hearing loss once they are introduced to the body through the traditional routes of exposure.
BY EDUARDO SHAW
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NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT?
THE EVOLUTION OF PERSONAL AIR SAMPLING
Sponsored by Casella
Who can remember a time before the personal air sampler, or PAS? My guess is that not many do. Commercially, the PAS dates back to the early 1960s in Europe and the U.S.—a time when AIHA only had a few hundred members.
BY JUSTIN STEWART
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Sources of Confusion
Compliance Pitfalls for Common Workplace Chemicals
