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Thank you David! Another 'link' can be found at:
http://www.ohsonline.com/articles/63671/
Andrew Cutz, CIH
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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:16:50 +0100
From: domalley@...
Subject: [UKOH] AIHA study on the value of the profession
To: UKOH@...
*UKOH* Please delete original text \/ below \/ before replying *UKOH*
I thought that others would be interested to learn as I did about a study
that the American Industrial Hygiene Association [AIHA] have had carried
out on "A Strategy to Demonstrate the Value of Industrial Hygiene". Their
intention is to give the entire profession a tool and a nudge to use it to
sell our profession's benefits. The tool is a report of about 250 pages
that is available to download from http://www.ihvalue.org and includes real-world
case studies demonstrating these key findings:
The greatest IH value contributions result from impacting the business
process rather than reducing health costs or workers' comp costs and
from designing process improvements to reduce or eliminate workers'
exposures, and thus produce significant contributions to business
profitability.
Significant savings from IH value contributions result from
eliminating the hazard or implementing engineering controls -- a
strong confirmation of the value of the hierarchy of controls -- and
from IHs' participating on business teams.
In my personal view AIHA should be applauded for taking this initiative.
Perhaps we in Europe should consider generating comparable data from case
studies on this side of the pond.
Regards
David O'Malley
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http://www.ohsonline.com/articles/63671/
Andrew Cutz, CIH
GlobalOccHyg List
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/globalocchyg-list/
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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:16:50 +0100
From: domalley@...
Subject: [UKOH] AIHA study on the value of the profession
To: UKOH@...
*UKOH* Please delete original text \/ below \/ before replying *UKOH*
I thought that others would be interested to learn as I did about a study
that the American Industrial Hygiene Association [AIHA] have had carried
out on "A Strategy to Demonstrate the Value of Industrial Hygiene". Their
intention is to give the entire profession a tool and a nudge to use it to
sell our profession's benefits. The tool is a report of about 250 pages
that is available to download from http://www.ihvalue.org and includes real-world
case studies demonstrating these key findings:
The greatest IH value contributions result from impacting the business
process rather than reducing health costs or workers' comp costs and
from designing process improvements to reduce or eliminate workers'
exposures, and thus produce significant contributions to business
profitability.
Significant savings from IH value contributions result from
eliminating the hazard or implementing engineering controls -- a
strong confirmation of the value of the hierarchy of controls -- and
from IHs' participating on business teams.
In my personal view AIHA should be applauded for taking this initiative.
Perhaps we in Europe should consider generating comparable data from case
studies on this side of the pond.
Regards
David O'Malley
________________THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM THE UKOH LIST_________________________
See http://www.mailtalk.ac.uk/archives/ukoh.html for signoff and list information - The UKOH list is provided by BOHS you can join BOHS by visiting http://www.bohs.org where there is an online application form and details of membership benefits.
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