I maintain a number of websites including the Rotary CLE Literacy website (it had expired and the original domain snapped up for ransom, but most of the content was retrieved from the Wayback Machine). There has been recent interest in this literacy program from Argentina which also points to further […]
The AIOH text "Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene, An Introduction" has been translated into Mandarin for use in China and will be launched on Monday September 6th 2010 at Griffith University, Brisbane.
OHS book in Mandarin
Low level lead exposure to children is an ongoing issue in the lead mining city of Mt Isa, Queensland, though it appear that airborne lead levels have been controlled for some years. It is interesting to see the US National Toxicology Program (NTP); Center for the Evaluation of Risks to […]
Low level lead
Yet another visitor map, this time from widgets.amung.us The main differnce is it shows the active visitors
Another visitor map
Google Insights allows various search terms to be analysed including trends and geographically, as a map. Is the centre of the world for Occupational Hygiene South Africa? – followed by Australia. In the US and Canada, the term Industrial Hygiene is used. The map for Industrial Hygiene shows the term […]
Occupational Hygiene – Google Insights
There is always a human health dimension to any major incident or disaster. A meeting organised by the US Institute of Medicine in New Orleans on June 22-23 2010 addressed these concerns. It was good to see the broader aspects of OHS covered, including stress and psychological aspects. It must […]
Health Effects from the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
I was watching the World Cup last night and noticed the very noisy bee swarm noise from many vuvuzelas. It drowned out the crowd and made the commentry harder to hear. I did some preliminary research on the vuvuzela wiki
Vuvuzela noise at World Cup
I have been monitoring how reliable my websites are with a free subscription to Pingdom. They send me an email each time the site is not available and another when it is up again. Presently, its averaging a little over 99% – somewhat less than the “official” figure of 99.7%
Website Uptime with Pingdom
A large study into brain tumours and mobile phones by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) INTERPHONE Study Group has just been published “Brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use: results of the INTERPHONE international case–control study” in the International journal of epidemiology Advance Access published […]
Mobile phones and brain tumours
During a literacy project with 3 rural primary schools in Cambodia in October 2009, I saw several posters by the Australian Government on the walls of classrooms. The design of the mask is such that it would give the wearer very limited protection as the face mask would not seal […]