Industrial Hygiene

Museum staff and management must protect the health of employees, volunteers, and the public. This talk will focus on health risks arising from exposures to older pesticides and from silica dust. When museums return tribal cultural artifacts to native communities, they must consider what preservatives were used, including copper sulfate, DDT, creosote, and arsenic.

In addition, we will focus on museum staff risk related to silica dust exposures, including brick surfaces, marble dust residues, tombstone cleaning, paleontology dusts, and laboratory countertop repair...

Carceral settings provide different challenges for climate-related hazards and require different solutions. Learners will explore some of the occupational and environmental hazards people who live and work in carceral settings contend with, identify potential mitigation strategies, and outline gaps and limitations of proposed solutions.

This presentation will share findings from our research on the performance of the general population in the N95 respirator fit test conducted at the Minnesota State Fair in 2021 and 2022. I will also discuss how demographic factors such as gender, age, and race influence the likelihood of passing the fit test.

Join the AIHA Northern California Section and COEH for a deep dive into lead safety. Discuss upcoming revisions to the lead-related construction standards under Title 17, the requirements of Senate Bill 1076, and opportunities for public comment on proposed changes. Explore the role of California’s Occupational Blood Lead Registry in tracking and managing work-related lead exposure, how the data collected helps prevent lead poisoning, and how data can inform safe work practices. Finally, summarize revisions to Cal/OSHA’s lead standards and the goals of...