-Forwarded Message Attachment--
Subject: FW: RHICOH 2010 - Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace and Environment Symposium - Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-21, 2010
From: rorford@...
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:51:19 -0600

Abstract Deadline

The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace and Environment Symposium sponsored by the International Commission on Occupational Health (RHICOH 2010) will be Monday, November 30, 2009. We cordially invite you to seize the last chance to submit an abstract and share your achievements.

Participant wishing to present papers on Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace and Environment and related topics are cordially invited to submit their abstracts at RHICOH 2010 which will take place from 20-21 April 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan.

• Click here to submit your abstracts.
• For more information, please visit the conference website.
• If also interested in EPICOH-Medichem 2010, please link to EPICOH-Medichem 2010 website.

Important Dates

July 01, 2009
Sep. 30, 2009
Nov. 30, 2009
Dec. 31, 2009

Jan. 31, 2010   Call for symposium and submission of abstracts
Deadline for mini-symposia with abstracts
Deadline for submission of abstracts
Abstract acceptance notification
Deadline for early bird registration   

About the Conference

The International Symposium of Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace and Environment (RHICOH 2010) is organized by the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and in collaboration with the International Commission of Occupational Health (ICOH) Scientific Committee on Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace.

The symposium will be held before the Joint Conference of the 21st International Conference on Epidemiology in Occupational Health (EPICOH 2010), the 38th Occupational and Environmental Health in the Production and Use of Chemicals International Congress (MEDICHEM 2010), and the 30th National Conference of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine organized by the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, National Taiwan University College of Public Health and Taiwan Environmental and Occupational Medicine Association, and in collaboration with the ICOH Scientific Committees on Epidemiology in Occupational Health and Occupational Health in Chemical Industry.

The symposium is co-hosted by the Taiwan Environmental and Occupational Medicine Association, Occupational Hygiene Association of Taiwan, and Taiwan Occupational Health Nursing Association. It will bring together experts in occupational health from Asia and all parts of the globe.

More detailed information will be updated in the RHICOH 2010 website: http://www.rhicoh2010.tw
If also interested in EPICOH-MEDICHEM 2010, please link to: http://www.epicohmedichem2010.tw

SOURCE: OCC-ENV-MED-L Digest for Friday, November 20, 2009

[UKOH] Carbon Fibre Dust - Deadly or Not??ş

From:	UK Occupational Hygiene Discussion List (ukoh@...) on behalf of Paul McDermott (paulmcdermott@...)
Sent:	November 20, 2009 6:16:33 AM
To:	UKOH@...

*UKOH* Delete original text \/ below \/ before replying to stop messages growing too large *UKOH*
 
Hi all,
 
Does anyone have any words of wisdom on the current thinking/health risk 
position of work involving exposure to carbon fibre dusts?  I’ve been asked to 
look at working techniques in a workshop where workers are required to 
occasionally drill through pre-formed composite panels and on first glance it 
appears that everyone is treating the dust as if it’s the black death! I’ve tried 
an initial trawl of the annals without a great deal of luck, so I was wondering if 
any of you out there have had similar experiences and could throw any light 
on how best to proceed. Could anyone point me in the direction of any readily 
available and authoritative work on the health effects of exposure to carbon 
fibre dusts, rather than the contradictory snippets that a typical Google 
search throws up.
 
________________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.
_____________________________________________________________________________

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
END   Forwarded by Andrew Cutz, CIH  |  Moderator, GlobalOccHyg List  |   http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/globalocchyg-list/

nayati International, in association with Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India and NIOSH-USA is conducting a workshop on "Assessment and Control of Worker Exposure to Potent Drugs & Chemicals" in Hyderabad, India from Feb 10-13, 2010. 

For details on the curriculum, experts on the faculty etc., please go to either of the two links below:

http://www.nayati.org/workshop/

www.nayati.org 

The curriculum is designed by experts in the Pharmaceutical industry to provide hands on skills and tools and includes workshops, case studies, videos, practical sessions etc..... A valuable and timely opportunity for all those who want to acquire the specific skills needed to address the challenges of Occ. Health and hygiene unique to the fast growing industry.

Thank you

Lalitha Burra, Ph.D.,CIH

Director, nayati International

I will be out of the office starting  16/11/2009 and will not return until
20/11/2009.

I will respond to your message when I return.  If there is anything urgent
Sue Hall (01298 21 80 99) or Kate Jones (01298 21 84 35) may be able to
help


------------------------------------------------------------------------
ATTENTION:

This message contains privileged and confidential information intended
for the addressee(s) only. If this message was sent to you in error,
you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it and
we request that you notify the sender immediately by return email.

Opinions expressed in this message and any attachments are not
necessarily those held by the Health and Safety Laboratory or any person
connected with the organisation, save those by whom the opinions were
expressed.

Please note that any messages sent or received by the Health and Safety
Laboratory email system may be monitored and stored in an information
retrieval system.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Think before you print - do you really need to print this email?
------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Scanned by MailMarshal - Marshal's comprehensive email content security
solution. Download a free evaluation of MailMarshal at www.marshal.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Occupational Hygiene Professional:

The Harvard School of Public Health Center for Continuing Professional Education (CCPE) offers an upcoming program which I thought might interest you. Safety in Design and Construction: A Lifecycle Approach, which runs from February 22-26, is structured to address accepted strategies and best practices related to every phase of construction. In order to play a role in the design, design review, construction, and operation of a facility, it is necessary to understand the issues and challenges that face other disciplines involved in the process. This program provides participants with tangible skills and processes that will allow them to implement these concepts in their own work. The program is specifically targeted towards architects, engineers, project managers, and safety professionals.

If you are interested in the program, or would like to learn more, visit the program’s website: https://secure.sph.harvard.edu/ccpe/programs.cfm?CSID=SDC0210&pg=cluster&CLID=1&source=GOH

I hope to see you there,

Maryanne Dearborn

Senior Marketing Specialist

Center for Continuing Professional Education

Harvard School of Public Health

contedu@...

(617) 384-8692

Annals of Occupational Hygiene vol 53 number 8 is now available
on-line.   The contents list is given below, with links to free
abstracts.  BOHS members can access the full text free, and should
receive the print edition by early December.

This issue includes four papers on oxygen depletion and off-gassing
of wood pellets and wood chips.  There have been several fatalities
from this cause with wood chips and it looks like a risk too with
pellets.  The free access paper by Viscusi et al looks at
decontamination procedures which can be applied to RPE to permit
reuse during an influenza epidemic.  None of the methods was found to
be wholly satisfactory.

8 more recent papers have been published, and until they are put into
an issue they are available at
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/papbyrecent.dtl . At the journal
home-page http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/ you can sign up to get
email notification when papers are placed on this advance access
site.  Remember also that you can do an advanced search of papers
back to 1972 at http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/search.dtl .

Trevor Ogden
Chief Editor


----------------------------------------------------------------
EDITORIAL
----------------------------------------------------------------

    T. L. Ogden
	 Proposed British-Dutch Guidance on Measuring Compliance with
Occupational Exposure Limits
	 Ann Occup Hyg 2009 53: 775-777; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mep072.
	 http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/53/8/775?etoc

----------------------------------------------------------------
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
----------------------------------------------------------------

    Urban Svedberg, Caroline Petrini, and Gunnar Johanson   		 FREE ACCESS
	 Oxygen Depletion and Formation of Toxic Gases following Sea
Transportation of Logs and Wood Chips
	 Ann Occup Hyg 2009 53: 779-787; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mep055.
	 http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/53/8/779?etoc

    Xingya Kuang, Tumuluru Jaya Shankar, Xiaotao T. Bi, C. Jim Lim,
Shahab  Sokhansanj, and Staffan Melin
	 Rate and Peak Concentrations of Off-Gas Emissions in Stored Wood
	 Pellets--Sensitivities to Temperature, Relative Humidity, and Headspace Volume
	 Ann Occup Hyg 2009 53: 789-796; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mep049.
	 http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/53/8/789?etoc

    Mehrdad Arshadi, Paul Geladi, Rolf Gref, and Par Fjallstrom
	 Emission of Volatile Aldehydes and Ketones from Wood Pellets under
Controlled Conditions
	 Ann Occup Hyg 2009 53: 797-805; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mep058.
	 http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/53/8/797?etoc

    Xingya Kuang, Tumuluru Jaya Shankar, Shahab Sokhansanj, C. Jim
Lim,   Xiaotao T. Bi, and Staffan Melin
	 Effects of Headspace and Oxygen Level on Off-gas Emissions from
Wood  Pellets in Storage
	 Ann Occup Hyg 2009 53: 807-813; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mep071.
	 http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/53/8/807?etoc

    Dennis J. Viscusi, Michael S. Bergman, Benjamin C. Eimer, and
Ronald E. Shaffer FREE ACCESS
	 Evaluation of Five Decontamination Methods for Filtering Facepiece Respirators
	 Ann Occup Hyg 2009 53: 815-827; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mep070.
	 http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/53/8/815?etoc

    Evangelia Demou, Wendelin J. Stark, and Stefanie Hellweg
	 Particle Emission and Exposure during Nanoparticle Synthesis in
Research Laboratories
	 Ann Occup Hyg 2009 53: 829-838; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mep061.
	 http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/53/8/829?etoc

    A. K. Madl, S. H. Gaffney, J. L. Balzer, and D. J. Paustenbach
	 Airborne Asbestos Concentrations Associated with Heavy Equipment Brake Removal
	 Ann Occup Hyg 2009 53: 839-857; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mep056.
	 http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/53/8/839?etoc

    Kerstin Fallschissel, Peter Kampfer, and Udo Jackel
	 Direct Detection of Salmonella Cells in the Air of Livestock Stables
by Real-Time PCR
	 Ann Occup Hyg 2009 53: 859-868; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mep060.
	 http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/53/8/859?etoc

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), International Symposium on Surface and Dermal Sampling

Call for papers for the ASTM International Symposium on Surface and Dermal Sampling.  Deadline for submission is January 14, 2010. 

http://www.astm.org/d22symp1010.htm

 _____________________________________________________________

SOURCE: NIOSH eNews - November, 2009ş  | http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/enews/