Indoor Google Maps, smartphones and Bluetooth monitoring instruments could combine to give real time mapping of occupational and evironomental data.
Occupational Hygiene
National Academies Press is a great, free resource of US Government publications
National Academies Press
Standards Australia will release a revison of AS1668 mid 2012 on building ventilation to cover mechanical and natural ventilation. This will afafct IAQ assessments.
Review of Australian Ventilation Code
The opportunity to view workplaces remotely with additional sound and instrument data streams is just just around the corner.
Street View and Occupational Hygiene
Keeping up with advances in the understanding of occupational diseases is difficult for occupational hygienists, as most of these advances are outside the scope of occupational hygiene.
Occupational Asthma
The Scientific American September 2001 has an article by Joan Raymond The Shape of a Nose that has implications for inhalation toxicology. [The original article is Noback, M. L., K. Harvati, et al. (2011). “Climate-related variation of the human nasal cavity.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145(4): 599-614] “Scientists have long been interested in the relation between […]
The Shape of a Nose
Local newspapers report the silt from from the Queensland Floods is toxic, but fail to recognise a child is wearing inappropriate respiratory protection on a front page story while shovelling dried silt.
Flood silt and respiratory protection
Standards Australia is planning to introduce a 50+ category for sunscreens with the publication of DR AS/NZS 2604 Sunscreen products—Evaluation and classification, but I think the idea is wrong. I have reviewed the new draft standard and strongly support the Cancer Council’s view that the SPF50+ rating will lead people […]
SPF50+ Sunscreen
The Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists has just released the final version of its position paper Adjustment of Workplace Exposure Standards for Extended Work Shifts. Other AIOH publications and position papers are availble here: AIOH Position papers Adjustment of Workplace Exposure Standards for Extended Work Shifts Asbestos Diesel Particulate and […]
Exposure Standards for Extended Shifts
Tissue engineering at Yale has achieved functioning rat lungs repopulated with cells from another animal. Will this lead to replacement lungs with no tissue rejection for people with damaged lungs?