American Industrial Hygiene Association - Northern California Section

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Professional Organizations
Government Sites
Education and Training
Listservs, News, Databases and Journals
Special Working Populations
Chemical Handling and Management Systems
Ergonomics
Respiratory Protection
Infectious Agents
Construction
Labor, Health and Safety Organization and Activism
Fun Stuff

Cal/EPA's final report on the priorities of the California Green Chemistry Initiative

Professional Organizations

American Industrial Hygiene Association

California Industrial Hygiene Council

American Board of Industrial Hygiene

ACGIH Home Page

International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA)

National Ammerican Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)

Bay Area Environmental Safety Group

Health Physics Society

National Safety Council

Board of Certified Safety Professionals

National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)

American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN)

American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)

American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM)

American Dental Association (ADA)

American Lung Association (ALA)

American Public Health Association (APHA)

American Red Cross

American Biological Safety Association (ABSA)

Biological Safety Affairs Forum

Government Sites

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Federal OSHA)

California Department of Industrial Relations

World Health Organization (WHO)

California Codes and Legislative Information

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

National Library of Medicine (NLM)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH and Cal/OSHA)

Navy Environmental Health Center

U.S. Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board

International Labor Organization (ILO)

Education and Training

AIHA Distance Learning

Center for Occupational and Environmental Health Continuing Education offers a number of courses of interest to Industrial Hygienists.

COEH Continuing Education
UC Berkeley
2223 Fulton Street, 2nd Floor
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 643-7277 FAX: (510) 643-7291

Email: coehce@socrates.berkeley.edu

The University of San Francisco offers a Masterscience in Environmental Management degree designed for adults working full-time. The university has educated hundreds of environmental professionals over the last 20 years. Please call (415) 422-6553 for further information.

Unversity of California Extension at Berkeley offers courses in hazardous waste management and remediation are offered individually or as electives in a certificate program in Environmental Hazard Management.

CU Extension, Berkeley
1995 University Avenue
Phone 510 643-7143 or call Marve (work): 509 371-3617 or (home): 509 375-0222.

The University Consortium for Continuing Education offers a two-day short course: Advanced VDT Workstations: Ergonomics, Health, Safety & Productivity which may be held at your facility and at your convenience. ABIH has awarded 2.0 points for this course; approval 7957. For more information call Joleen Packman at (818) 995-6335.

FRESH Training Concepts offers a wide range of custom on-site and e-compliance solutions.

The Southern California NIOSH Education and Research Center offers a variety of continuing education courses in Southern California.

The Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health offers courses of interest to industrial hygienists. For additional information, call (801) 581-5710 or FAX (801) 585-5275.

The University of California Extension at Santa Cruz offers a series of classes in environmental and occupational health and safety, hazardous materials and hazardous waste management, including HASWOPER training at locations in Cupertino, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Sunnyvale, and Monterey. Call (800) 660-8639 to enroll by phone.

University of California Extension at Davis offers classes in emergency management, hazardous materials management, health and safety; and includes an OSHA training institute. For additional information, call (800)-752-0881 or FAX 530-757-8558.

University of California Extension at San Diego is an OSHA training center and offers a number of OSHA training and trainer courses, as well as courses in environmental health and safety management. Call (800)358-9206 or Email:unexenv@ucsd.edu.

Dynamic Scientific Controls, Fall Safety Solutions offers training and consulting on fall safety issues.

Listervs, News, Databases and Journals

AIHA Listserv A Yahoo! group to connect industrial hygienists worldwide.

NIOSH Personal Protective Equipment Listserv Sign up for an e-mail group for announcements from NIOSH relevant to personal protective equipment.

Safety Listserv Based at the University of Vermont, this listserv offers a general discussion of occupational health and safety management issues with a worldwide membership. Archives are available.

Bay Area Health Physics Listserv A Yahoo! group that includes information from the Bay Area Section of the Health Physics Society.

International Safety and Health Listserv A global, moderated Yahoo! group of safety engineers.

Oklahoma State University Online Safety Resource Library contains information on a wide variety of safety issues.

Cal/OSHA Reporter A weekly publication for the Occupational Health and Safety Community from Cal/OSHA.

The Pump Handle. Occupational and public health news analysis with links to related blogs.

The Workers' Comp Executive.A journal for the workers' compensation community of California.

CA: A Journal for Clinicians Published by the American Cancer Society, this journal is free to the public and features new research findings about carcinogenicity and is oriented towards clinicians.

Environmental Health Perspectives A free monthly journal of research in environmental health published by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences

Emerging Infectious Diseases A free monthly journal of research about infectious diseases published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Occupational Hazards A free monthly journal with archived articles on a wide range of occupational health and safety issues.

Prevention Practices Database A database of guidelines and reference materials hosted by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario, Canada.

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health A free quarterly journal of research and commentary on occupational and environmental health issues around the world.

SIRI Health & Safety Consultants List

Special Working Populations

Young Workers' Health and Safety Website! A project of the California Resource Network for Young Worker Health and Safety.

Chemical Handling and Management Systems

MSDS Collection from Vermont Safety Information Resources.

Report on Carcinogens Published every several years by the Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Toxicology Program, this report compiles data on carcinogenicity, genotoxicity, biologic mechanisms, potential for human exposure, and U.S. regulations of identified chemicals

OSHA Fact Sheets Fact sheets about chemical hazards, safety, OSHA programs and compliance written by the Occupational Safety and Health Adminsitration (OSHA).

NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluations Health Hazard Evaluations are reports written by employees of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to document investigations of health hazards, and can include descriptions of the workplaces, health hazards, measured contaminant levels, and recommendations for reducing exposures.

Asbestos - Brake and Automotive Clutch Repair An OSHA Safety and Health Information Bulletin, SHIB 07-26-2006.

Vinyl Acetate Safe Handling Guide published by the Vinyl Acetate Council (2005), 36 pages.

Ergonomics

Materials Handling, U.K. Health and Safety Executive This site includes information on risk assessment and risk management of materials handling tasks, including pushing-pulling, back pain and manual handing assessment charts (MAC Tool).

NIOSH Ergonomic Guidelines for Manual Material Handling DHHS(NIOSH) Publication No. 2007-131.

North Carolina Department of Labor, Guide to Manual Materials Handling and Back Safety A 1997 guide, 64 pages.

Cost benefit analysis of ergonomic interventions - Worksheets by A. Hedge. Worksheet 1 estimates the return on investment with actual cost data, Worksheet 2 estimates the return on investment with estimated cost data, and Worksheet 3 helps to evaluate the benefits to work process, work satisfaction and regulatory compliance of ergonomic interventions.

Cal/OSHA - NIOSH Guide to Selecting Hand and Power Tools DHHS(NIOSH) Publication No. 2004-164, 20 pages.

Ergonomic Guidelines for Selecting Hand and Power Tools is an article by J. East and O. Sood in "Occupational Hazards," December, 2005.

Fork Lift Operator (ergonomics) Toolkit Pulbished by the Indstrial Musculoskeletal Injurty Reduction Program (1998), 87 pages

Minimum Standards for the Office Work Environment published by Work Cover, New South Wales (2004), 24 pages.

Resource Manual for Musculoskeletal Disease Prevention Guideline for Ontario, CA The manual describes a framework for the prevention of musculoskeletal disease that can fit within an existing health and safety program, 80 pages.

Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) An interactive on-line tool for assessing risk fro work-related upper limb disorders based on L. McAtamney and E.N. Corlett (1993) "RULA - A survey method for investigation on work-related upper limb disorders," "Applied Ergonomics," 24(2): 91-99.

Pipetting ergonomic issues An article by K.J. Costello titled "Laboratory workers commonly report work-related musculoskeletal disorders from the use of manual pipettes: Ergonomic science may hold the key to prevention," published in "Laboratory Equipment," April 2004.

Respiratory Protection

OSHA Respiratory Protection eTool This interactive websites helps to select appropriate respiratory protection and develop a cartridge change schedule in compliance with the new OSHA respiratory protection standard.

NIOSH Respirator Selection Logic, 2004 Guidance for the selection of respirators and respirator cartridges.

Infectious Agents

Influenza Influenza information for the general public and health professionals from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Legionnaires' Disease and Related Illness This 1989 publication from the Australia National Occupational Health and Safety Commission describes legionella and legionnaires' disease prevention and control (27 pages).