Education

AIHA's 2012 Fall Conference is organized by tracks. Follow one track or mix-and-match various sessions! PDCs and workshops include electronic handouts; internet access is not provided.

 Management & Leadership

 Exposure Risk Assessment and Management (ERAM) 

 Petrochem/Oil and Gas 

 Product Stewardship & Sustainability 

 Interactive 

 

Management & Leadership Management & Leadership

  • PDC 7 Confined Space: How Will You Prepare Your Workers for a Safe Entry and Exit? Sunday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • BD 1 Breakfast with Champions: How AIHA Taught Me to Win Friends and Influence People, Monday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • BD 2 Emerging Threats to Industrial Hygiene Training and the Profession, Monday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • LD 2 Expectations for the Practice of IH/OH Worldwide, Monday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • Platform Session 1 Heat Stress, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • WS 1 CBRN Respirator Selection, Use, and Maintenance Guidelines, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • WS 2 Semiconductor Health Hazards: Disputed Risks, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • Concurrent Session 3 Influencing Risk Tolerance, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
  • BD 4 Evaluating Literature and Research Data-Applying the Critical Appraisal Approach, Tuesday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • BD 5 Technology Transfer: WEELs Are Just the Start, Tuesday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • General Session Incorporating Prevention through Design Methods into the Design and Redesign Process, Tuesday, 9:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.
  • Henry F. Smyth Lecture: Chronicles of Health and Safety in Shipyards, Monday, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  • LD 4 Incorporating Prevention through Design Methods into the Design and Redesign Process - NIOSH Perspective, Tuesday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • LD 5 High Tech Devices, Tuesday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • LD 7 Championing Industrial Hygienists, Changing Industrial Hygiene–The Future of Certification and the Profession, Tuesday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • WS 5 Integrating Risk Assessment into Cost Benefit Analysis for Decision Making, Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • Concurrent Session 6 Leading with Lagging Indicators: How API 754 Leveraged the Heinrich Pyramid for Personal Safety to Improve  Process Safety, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • PDC 10 Smart Devices and the EHS Professional, Wednesday, 8:00 a.m.–Noon
  • PDC 11 Making Ethical Decisions as an Industrial Hygienist, Wednesday, 8:00 a.m.–Noon

ERAM ERAM
  • CIH Exam Preparatory Class, Friday–Sunday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • PDC 1 Exposure Assessment Strategies and Statistics, Saturday and Sunday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • PDC 2 Electrical Safety I: Basic Principles & Electrical Installations/Engineering Controls, Saturday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • PDC 3 Noise Control Engineering, Saturday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • PDC 5 Welding: IH’s Latest Challenge, Saturday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • PDC 6 Electrical Safety II: Energized Work Practices/Arc Flash/NFPA 70E (2012 Edition), Sunday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • PDC 7 Confined Space: How Will You Prepare Your Workers for a Safe Entry and Exit? Sunday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • PDC 8 Bayesian Statistics: Overview and Applications in IH Data Interpretation, Sunday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • BD 3 Fracking: An Answer to Our Energy Problems or a New Problem? Monday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • Keynote Session High Consequence Events and the Fallacy of Randomness, Monday, 8:45 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
  • Concurrent Session 1 Nanotechnology: Protecting Workers from the Smallest Hazards, Tuesday, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
  • LD 1 High Consequence Events and the Fallacy of Randomness, Monday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • LD 3 Occupational Exposure Limit Setting–Is There a Future? Monday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • Platform Session 1 Heat Stress, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • WS 1 CBRN Respirator Selection, Use, and Maintenance Guidelines, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • WS 2 Semiconductor Health Hazards: Disputed Risks, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • Concurrent Session 4 Bringing IH Expertise to the Community, Monday, 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  • Henry F. Smyth Lecture: Chronicles of Health and Safety in Shipyards, Monday, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  • LD 6 Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics – Why Mark Twain Got It Wrong, Tuesday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • Platform Session 2 Product Stewardship Defined: Regulatory and Public Opinion Impact on the Practice, Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • WS 4 A Continuum of Exposure Guidance Resources: Relating Hazard Bands, DNELS, and OELs, Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • Concurrent Session 5 LEED and Safety: Is It Leading Anywhere? Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
  • PDC 12 Mold Recognition, Effective Sampling Strategies and Results Interpretation, Wednesday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Petrochem/Oil Petrochem/Oil AND GAS
  • BD 3 Fracking: An Answer to Our Energy Problems or a New Problem? Monday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • Keynote Session High Consequence Events and the Fallacy of Randomness, Monday, 8:45 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
  • LD 1 High Consequence Events and the Fallacy of Randomness, Monday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • Platform Session 1 Heat Stress, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • WS 1 CBRN Respirator Selection, Use, and Maintenance Guidelines, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • WS 2 Semiconductor Health Hazards: Disputed Risks, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • WS 3 Oil and Gas Extraction: Differentiating Health Hazards from Media Hype, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • Concurrent Session 4 Bringing IH Expertise to the Community, Monday, 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  • LD 6 Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics – Why Mark Twain Got It Wrong, Tuesday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • WS 6 30,000 Censored Occupational Samples: Diving into the 2012 Deep Water Response Data Sets, Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • Concurrent Session 6 Leading with Lagging Indicators: How API 754 Leveraged the Heinrich Pyramid for Personal Safety to Improve  Process Safety, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Stewardship & Sustainability PRODUCT Stewardship and Sustainability
  • PDC 4 GHS: The New Hazard Communication, Saturday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • PDC 9 Sustainability Measures and Metrics: Changing the World Through Transparency, Sunday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • Concurrent 2 Performance Metrics for EHS–The Good, Bad and Ugly, Tuesday, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
  • WS 3 Oil and Gas Extraction: Differentiating Health Hazards from Media Hype, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • BD 6 SDS and Label Author Registry: Expanding the Value of the Profession, Tuesday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • Concurrent Session 5 LEED and Safety: Is It Leading Anywhere?Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
  • Platform Session 2 Product Stewardship Defined: Regulatory and Public Opinion Impact on the Practice, Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • PDC 13 What Every EHS Professional Should Know About Water Resources, Conservation and Protection, Wednesday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Interactive Interactive
  • BD 1 Breakfast with Champions: How AIHA Taught Me to Win Friends and Influence People, Monday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • BD 2 Emerging Threats to Industrial Hygiene Training and the Profession, Monday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • BD 3 Fracking: An Answer to Our Energy Problems or a New Problem? Monday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • LD 1 High Consequence Events and the Fallacy of Randomness, Monday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • LD 2 Expectations for the Practice of IH/OH Worldwide, Monday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • LD 3 Occupational Exposure Limit Setting–Is There a Future? Monday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • Technical Tour 1 Sea World, Monday, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
  • BD 4 Evaluating Literature and Research Data-Applying the Critical Appraisal Approach, Tuesday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • BD 5 Technology Transfer: WEELs Are Just the Start, Tuesday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • BD 6 SDS and Label Author Registry: Expanding the Value of the Profession, Tuesday, 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
  • LD 4 Incorporating Prevention through Design Methods into the Design and Redesign Process - NIOSH Perspective, Tuesday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • LD 5 High Tech Devices, Tuesday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • LD 6 Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics – Why Mark Twain Got It Wrong, Tuesday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • LD 7 Championing Industrial Hygienists, Changing Industrial Hygiene–The Future of Certification and the Profession, Tuesday, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  • Technical Tour 2 Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Tuesday, 12:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.