NIOSH Activities at the 2019 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce EXP)

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The American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Expo (AIHce EXP) provides an opportunity for industrial hygiene and occupational health professionals from around the world to learn the latest education and outcomes pertaining to worker health and safety. The 2019 conference takes place May 20-22 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

NIOSH presentations include the following:

Saturday, May 18, 2019

PDC 110: Total Worker Health® Maximizing Well-Being
Presenters: Chia-Chia Chang, Constance Franklin, James Grosch, Juliann Scholl
Time: 8:00AM – 5:00PM
Location: L100A
Type: Professional Development Course

Sunday May 19, 2019

PDC 406: Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance™
Presenters: Jill Shugart, Lisa Delaney
Time: 8:00AM – 5:00PM
Location: M100H
Type: Professional Development Course

PDC 601: How to Assess and Manage Nanomaterial Risks
Presenters: Laura Hodson, Adrienne Eastlake
Time: 1:00PM – 5:00PM
Location: L100E
Type: Professional Development Course

Monday, May 20

A2: What Is Total Worker Exposure, and Why Is It Important to the Practice of Occupational and Industrial Hygiene?
Presenter: Paul Schulte
Time: 10:00AM – 11:00AM
Location: M100C
Type: Education Session

119 – An Evaluation of Engineered Nanomaterial Safety Data Sheets Post GHS
Presenter: Laura Hodson
Time: 11:15AM – 12:15PM
Location: Lower Level Lobby
Type: Poster 119

231 – Evaluation of Employee Exposures to Metals During 3D Printing
Presenter: Eric Glassford
Time: 11:15AM – 12:15PM
Location: Lower Level Lobby
Type: Poster 231

575 – Case Study Demonstrating the Utility of Occupational Exposure Banding
Presenter: Pranav Rane
Time: 11:15AM – 12:15PM
Location: Lower Level Lobby
Type: Poster 575

Characterization of Bacterial Community Using 16s Ribosomal RNA Sequencing in Dust Samples from 50 Public Schools in a Large City
Presenter: Ju-Hyeong Park
Time: 11:15AM – 12:15PM
Location: Room L Lobby
Type: Poster 229

Grinder Isolation and Reductions in Diacetyl Levels in a Coffee Roasting and Packaging Facility – A Case Study
Presenter: Marcia Stanton
Time: 11:15AM – 12:15PM
Location: Room L Lobby
Type: Poster 430

C12: Current NIOSH Risk Assessment Activities for Chemicals
Presenter: Paul Schulte
Time: 2:00PM – 3:00PM
Location: 101G
Type: Education Session

Tuesday, May 21

G10: The Future Is Now: Occupational Robotics and Its Impact on Workers and the Field of Industrial Hygiene
Presenters: Chuck Geraci, Naomi Swanson
Time: 11:15AM – 12:15PM
Location: M100C
Type: Education Session

Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) for Filtering Facepiece Disinfection and Reuse During an Airborne Infectious Disease Pandemic
Presenter: Tia McClelland
Time: 11:15AM – 12:15PM
Location: Room L Lobby
Type: Poster 362

Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) as a Disinfection Strategy for Candida auris, an Emerging Drug Resistant Pathogen
Presenter: Tia McClelland
Time: 11:15AM – 12:15PM
Location: Room L Lobby
Type: Poster 319

Occupational Exposure and Airflow Obstruction among U.S. Adults Using a COPD-JEM: NHANES 2007–2008 to 2011–2012
Presenter: Brent Doney
Time: 11:15AM – 12:15PM
Location: Room L Lobby
Type: Poster 124

551 – Toxicological Evaluation of Surgical Smoke from Human Tissue: an In Vitro study
Presenter: Jhy-Charm Soo
Time: 11:15AM – 12:15PM
Location: Room L Lobby
Type: Poster 551

Respirable Coal Mine Dust and Quartz Exposures Among United States Underground Coal Miners
Presenter: Brent Doney
Time: 2:40PM – 3:00PM
Location: 101A
Type: Education Session

NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluations (HHEs) and Lessons Learned Responding to the Opioid Crisis
Presenters: Jennifer Hornsby-Meyers, Kendra Broadwater, Sopia Chiu
Time: 3:15PM – 4:15PM
Location: M100C
Type: Education Session

J5: NIOSH Right Sensors Used Right — Real-Time Respirable Dust Monitors
Presenter: John Snawder
Time: 4:30PM – 5:30PM
Location: M100H
Type: Education Session

Wednesday, May 22

K9: Results of Interesting and Unusual NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluations, Part 1
Presenters: Leonard Zwack, Catherine Beaucham, Jessica Li
Time: 9:00AM – 10:00AM
Location: M100H
Type: Education Session

233 – Sampling Efficiency Comparison of a High Flow Rate Respirable Size-selective Sampler between Laboratories
Presenter: Taekhee Lee
Time: 10:15AM – 11:15PM
Location: Room L Lobby
Type: Poster 223

172 – A Field Evaluation of a Single Sampler for Respirable and Inhalable Indium and Dust Measurements at an Indium-Tin Oxide Production Facility
Presenter: Brie Blackley
Time: 10:15AM – 11:15PM
Location: Room L Lobby
Type: Poster 172

348 – Comparison of Enhanced Darkfield Microscopy and Hyperspectral Mapping with Electron Microscopy for Analysis of Airborne Nanoparticulate Collected on Filter-based Media
Presenter: Adrienne Eastlake
Time: 10:15AM – 11:15PM
Location: Room L Lobby
Type: Poster 348

435 – Headspace Analysis for Screening of Volatile Organic Compound Profiles of Electronic Juice Bulk Material
Presenter: Ryan LeBouf
Time: 10:15AM – 11:15PM
Location: Room L Lobby
Type: Poster 435

649 – Employee Driven Study to Assess Potential NORM/TENORM Exposures During Maintenance at Oil Production Facilities
Presenter: John Snawder
Time: 10:15AM – 11:15PM
Location: Room L Lobby
Type: Poster 649

L9: Results of Interesting and Unusual NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluations, Part 2
Presenters: Leonard Zwack, Scott Brueck, Nancy Burton
Time: 10:15AM – 11:15AM
Location: M100H
Type: Education Session

Generation and Evaluation of Reference Samples as Part of an Evacuated Canister Interlaboratory Study Presenter: Dru Burns
Time: 10:55AM – 11:15AM
Location: M100C
Type: Education Session 528

M5: A Practical Chemical Risk Assessment and Management Process — The NIOSH Occupational Exposure Banding Strategy
Presenters: Thomas Lentz, Pranav Rane
Time: 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Location: M100H
Type: Education Session

N5: How Can IH Data Use Be Improved? Standardization of Data Collection Forms, the Current State of Data Storage, and Future Aggregation of Data for More Effective Use
Presenters: Cherie Estill, Taylor Shockey
Time: 2:15PM – 3:15PM
Location: 101J
Type: Education Session

Evaluation of NIOSH Approved CBRN Air-Purifying Canisters Against Emerging Chemical and Radiological
Threats
Presenter: Lee Greenawald
Time: 2:35PM – 2:55PM
Location: L100E
Type: Education Session

AIHce 2019 Awards

NIOSH congratulates Dr. Charles Geraci, PhD, associate director for advanced manufacturing on being awarded the Henry F. Smyth, Jr. Award for his outstanding ability to recognize technical or scientific challenges that, when solved, benefit the industrial hygiene profession.

Visiting the exhibit hall? Stop by the NIOSH exhibit booth #1026!