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Michigan
Industrial Hygiene Society
MIHS Annual Mini-Conference 2004 |
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annual, full day, MIHS Mini-Conference was held on October
12, 2004 at the MSU Management Education Center in Troy, Michigan.
It was well attended and was worth 1.0 ABIH CM points. (Approval
number 04-2526; IH Rubric area.) The following speakers and
topics were presented. |
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"Perspectives
on Integrating LEV Design and Maintenance " was presented
by Gary Q. Johnson P.E., from The Health & Environmental
Safety Alliance, Inc. Gary Johnson is a member of the ACGIH
ventilation committee. This presentation discussed particle
momentum and hood design for dust control. He also discussed
the necessary LEV maintenance procedures to keep the systems
in proper working order. |
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"Reducing
Healthcare Industry Exposures to Antineoplastic & Other
Hazardous Drugs" was presented by Pier-George Zanoni, CIH
from Michigan Department of Community Health (and an MIHS Board
member). This presentation provided a summary of the Sept 2004
NIOSH Alert on hazardous drugs and related elements of the new
US Pharmacopoeia Chapter 797 standards on sterile compounding.
It covered health and safety issues related to hazardous drugs,
engineering controls (i.e. ventilated cabinets), work practice
controls, recommended PPE and medical surveillance. |
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"AIHA
Updates" was presented by Cynthia A. Ostrowski, CIH from
AIHA Board of Directors. Cindy updated us on the AIHA with a
personal perspective on her involvement in AIHA and MIHS. She
gave a very encouraging and energetic talk about the benefits
and cooperative efforts of AIHA. She also spoke about new and
upcoming programs, one of which included a large effort to promote
the IH profession. This would involve a multi-media package
that could be distributed to engineering and science undergraduates,
career counselors, and high school students. Also, a Future
Leaders Program was discussed, which would be a 2-day program
to help develop new leaders. It would be open to potential candidates
of less than 35 years old with less than 15 years experience. |
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"Michigan
Ergonomics Standard Advisory Committee" was presented by
John Bavin from Consumers Energy and Michigan Chamber of Commerce.
The Michigan Ergonomics Advisory Committee is still meeting
and discussing the Ergonomics Standard. He provided an enlightening
review of the Committee's history, their current work, and why
companies should participate. |
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"Current
Issues and New Technologies in Hearing Protection" was
presented by Lee Hager of Sonomax, Inc. Hearing protection
devices (HPD) have become the primary tools used to achieve
both compliance with 29CFR1910.95 and hearing loss prevention
in the noise-exposed workforce. While laboratory tests indicate
that hearing loss prevention should be
attainable with most commercial devices, the on-going hearing
loss accrued by noise-exposed workers may indicate otherwise.
New HPD technologies, designs, and approaches may move closer
to the desired goal, but barriers to application and use persist.
Lee's presentation described some of the barriers to
effective use, approaches for addressing the problems inherent
with some HPD, and new technologies intended to promote hearing
loss prevention.
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"Behavioral
Risk Improvement" was presented by Michael Johnson of Marsh
Risk Consulting. He works in the Behavioral Services Group,
Workforce Strategies department. BRI is a health and safety
management system that is based on scientifically derived principles
of human behavior. Use of this system enables managers, supervisors,
and hourly employees to manage their own, and others behaviors,
that are contributing to accidents, injuries and near miss events.
The process also includes methods to build management safety
support behaviors, such as discussing data at meetings, asking
people about their efforts to work more safely, and delivering
appropriate consequences. The BRI system enables organizations
to identify and address changes needed in workplace design,
equipment, procedures and employee
behavior to improve health and safety results. |
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