February 2010 – DINNER MEETING
DATE: Thursday, February 18, 2010
PLACE: Snuffy’s Pantagis Renaissance, Route 22 East,
Scotch Plains, NJ 908-322-7726
AGENDA:
3:30 p.m. AIHA, NJ Section, Inc. - Executive Committee Meeting
5:00 p.m. Registration/Networking/Cocktails
5:30 p.m. Before Dinner Speaker: Tom Armstrong, CIH, PhD; Principal Investigator, TWA8HR
Topic: Have You Considered a Career in Modeling?
Freeware from an AIHA Exposure Assessment Strategy team project makes it easier than ever before to use mathematical modeling to predict occupational and consumer product exposures. This opens new opportunities and efficiencies in work for the IH professional. The talk will feature a demonstration of the latest version of the IH Mod freeware Excel spreadsheet, where to get a copy, how to begin using the tool to enhance your IH work, and where to learn more about the theory and application of mathematical exposure modeling.
Dr. Armstrong is one of the AIHA project leaders for the IH Mod spreadsheet tool.
6:30 p.m. Networking/Cocktails
7:00 p.m. Dinner: $25 for members and $30 for guests. Students and those unemployed are free.
7:30 pm Second Speaker: Brian Petuch, Biosafety Officer, Merck
Topic: "Biosafety in the Scale-Up of a Biological Manufacturing Process".
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We are thrilled that an article about Tom Peter was in The Synergist but they cut out much of the article. See the entire article here!**********************************************************************************
NEW JOB POSTINGS ADDED IN FEBRUARY 2010--CLICK HERE
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2009 PDC presentations now on our website! See Meetings and Presentations!
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Save the dates for upcoming NJAIHA meetings:
March 18, 2010--Joint Dinner meeting with ASSE at Snuffy's
April 15, 2010--DINNER Meeting (Past Presidents Night) at Snuffy’s
June 17, 2010--DINNER Meeting (Awards Night) at Basking Ridge Country Club
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PDC CM Points
| No. |
Activity Title |
Point Category |
CM Points |
CM Approval Number |
| 1 |
The Value Strategy-the Process for Promoting Health, Safety and Environmental Interventions - AIHA Value Strategy |
IH |
0.50 |
09-4819 |
| 2 |
Practical Solutions for Handling & Containing Potent Compounds and Other Dust Generating Operations |
IH |
0.50 |
09-4820 |
| 3 |
Aerosol Real Time Monitoring Strategies |
IH |
0.50 |
09-4821 |
| 4 |
Professional Ethics, Doing What Is Right in the Practice of Industrial Hygiene |
Ethics |
0.50 |
09-1897 |
Approval #10-382 for Summer Program. 0.5 points per session, Maximum of 5 points, Fundamental Industrial Hygiene
| Approval # |
Date |
Hours |
CM pts |
Meeting Type |
| 09-3360 |
9/18/2008 |
3 |
0.5 |
Dinner Meeting |
| 09-3361 |
10/16/2008 |
3 |
0.5 |
Dinner Meeting |
| 09-3362 |
11/20/2008 |
3 |
0.5 |
Dinner Meeting |
| 09-3363 |
1/15/2009 |
1.5 |
0.25 |
Breakfast Meeting |
| 09-3364 |
2/12/2009 |
3 |
0.5 |
Dinner Meeting |
| 09-3365 |
3/19/2009 |
3 |
0.5 |
Dinner Meeting |
| 09-3366 |
4/16/2009 |
3 |
0.5 |
Dinner Meeting |
| 09-3367 |
6/18/2009 |
1.5 |
0.25 |
Dinner Meeting |
NEED AN ETHICS COURSE?
The Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Utah has developed and obtained ABIH CM points for an online Professional Ethics and the Practice of Industrial hygiene course. The course is designed to provide an introduction to the ethics underlying professional industrial hygiene practice and meet the ABIH two-hour requirement for ethics. This course is available and can be taken at any time.
A brochure with more details can be downloaded at:
http://medicine.utah.edu/rmcoeh/ContEdProg/online/ethicsonline.pdf
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