The Australian Broadcasting Commission has a website with snippets and videos of nearly 80 vocations. Here is the one for Occupational Hygiene
Yearly Archives: 2009
I may have been the first to publish about the ticking time-bomb of Hessian bags used to to transport asbestos, then used to make carpet underlay. Bromwich, D. W. (2006). “The 2005 Australian Asbestos Codes of Practice – An Occupational Hygiene Perspective.” Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia […]
Measuring asbestos in carpet underlay
The 2009 Bushfires Royal Commission Interim Report has just been released, following the disastrous Bushfires in Victoria in January 2009 where 73 people died. Some of the recommendations do not seem to have been though out. For example, Recommendation 7.1 includes “the safest option is always to leave early rather […]
2009 BushFires Royal Commission Interim Report
CHOICE, the Australian Consumers Association contacted me about swine flu and but this ion their website on May 1 2009.
CHOICE on swine flu
A US Institute of Medicine task force has just reported on the use of PPE with the H1N1 Swine Flu. Of particular interest is early findings from Professor MacIntyre’s (University of New South Wales) study into PPE in Chinese hospitals Major findings of the task force from an occupational hygiene […]
US IOM Task Force reports on PPE with HINI Swine ...
The reound Lawrevxce Berkeley National Laboratory has a useful IAQ resource at http://www.iaqscience.lbl.gov/ “This Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Scientific Findings Resource Bank (IAQ-SFRB) is being developed by the Indoor Environment Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with funding support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provided through an interagency […]
IAQ Scientific Findings Resource Bank
This snippet is from the July 9 British Occupational Hygiene Society ebulletin and resonates with my views. “The US Environmental Protection Agency has issued a presentation put together by its Federal Interagency Committee for Indoor Air Quality on the transmission of viruses in indoor air and HVAC system protection options. […]
US EPA swine flu presentation
I was looking for something in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s website and found they had just taken over the special chemistry search engine ChemSpider. I tried a seach for luciferin to test it out and found it gave a HUGE amount of information useful to occupational hygienist including:
ChemSpider
I was surprised at the extent of the destruction of world chemical weapons stockpiles, though I suspect the auditing processes in some counties would be less than transparent. The National Academies Press (NAP) send me emails on new releases of its publications. One I received today is
World chemical weapons stockpiles
I usually produce reports as PDF files – its great as it retains the exact formatting, including pagination and special fonts. Levels of security can also be embedded. However, I sometimes need to convert a PDF file to be used on a word processor like Microsoft Office.