2023 Northwest Occupational Health Conference

Start
10/18/2023
End
10/20/2023
Location
In-Person and Virtual

https://www.pnsaiha.org/products/2023_nohc_all.htm

Message from Eva Glosson - AIHA Pacific Northwest Section President

Hi Everyone,

I am very pleased to announce that the program for the 2023 NOHC is complete and registration is open.

The NOHC Planning Committee has pulled together a Short Course and Education sessions that I believe will provide exceptional and practical value to everyone in our local section. First, the NOHC is being jointly held with the local chapter of the Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). The conference theme is Partnerships: Industrial Hygiene and Infection Prevention.

Our professions both worked, and continue to work, cooperatively in response to the pandemic. IPs provide expertise in epidemiology, microbiology, and the chain of infection, while IHs provide expertise in respiratory protection, PPE, and engineering controls. The complementary skills and shared understandings contributed significantly to our national and international response to the pandemic, and I believe that we need to further our partnership for the benefit of public health.

Our short course (October 18) is entitled: Viral Video Bootcamp - New Strategies and Tools for Communicating Health and Safety. In a nutshell, all course participants will develop, write, film, edit, and produce their own video using their cellphone. Speakers will present on visual and video communication, practical video production of safety videos, examples of NIOSH safety videos, hands on instruction on video pre-and post-production, and editing using your cellphone. The course is intended to provide participants with the skills necessary to make their own safety, industrial hygiene, and infection prevention videos. Having participated in the workshop beta test, I think that anyone taking this course will have the tools and competence to make their own instructional videos using their own cellphone straight away.

We have three full education sessions on October 19. All of the education sessions are hybrid (available in-person and virtual) and will be streamed, recorded, and made available to attendees. You still may have to choose between two competing presentations, however, you can watch a recorded version of the one you missed at a later date. In fact, attendees will be able to view all of the recorded presentations and receive credit for them, an important value-added benefit of a hybrid conference. It's a bargain in my opinion.

Our joint APIC and AIHA education session will cover Microbiology and Infection Disease, ICRA 2.0 Infection Control Risk Assessment for healthcare construction, a live construction enclosure demonstration, Healthcare HVAC systems for IHs and IPs, a Legionella; Legionellosis panel discussion, and an IH and IP Catastrophe panel discussion.

The IH session will cover Health; Safety in the Adult Entertainment Industry, Legionella for Industrial Hygienists, student research presentations, Mold in Healthcare, the Legionella; Legionellosis panel discussion, and an IH and IP Catastrophe panel discussion.

The IP session will cover Legionella for Infection Preventionists, Novel Methods for UTI Detection, Water System Disinfection, NHSN Dashboard Updates, the Legionella; Legionellosis panel discussion, and an IH and IP Catastrophe panel discussions.

These sessions will feature presentations by leading national and local experts and practitioners.

We have two full education sessions devoted solely to industrial hygiene on October 20 and the sessions will cover Making Personal Technology Work for You, Use of Low-Cost Interventions to Improve Ventilation in Long-Term Care Facilities, Ethics and Neurodiversity in the Workplace and Creating a More Inclusive Environment, Characterizing the Burden of Chemical Exposures by Sociodemographic Groups in the US, Aluminum Cookware As a Source of Lead Exposure in the US, Traditional Eyeliners as a Source of Lead Exposure in Refugee Communities, and Comparison of Traditional vs Statistical Exposure Assessment Approaches Using WA State Compliance Sampling Data.

Registration is open and you can sign in on the PNS AIHA Website at 2023 NOHC | Pacific Northwest Section - AIHA (pnsaiha.org). Open an account and simply click on AIHA member options for either the Short Course, the Education Sessions, or both.

The NOHC will be held at the Olympia Hotel at Capital Lake in Olympia. The early bird conference room rate is $109/night and the conference rate ends October 3rd. I recommend you make your reservations over the phone at (360) 943-4000. Be sure to say that you are staying for the Northwest Occupational Health Conference otherwise you would not get the conference rate nor will we get credit for the number of
rooms rented.

The energy and commitment that the Board and Planning Committee toward this years NOHC is extraordinary and promises to be one of the best ever. I truly hope that you can make it any way you can. I look forward to your participation and support.

Eva M. Glosson

President, Pacific Northwest Section of the AIHA

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