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Greater Houston Industrial Hygiene Council
Meeting Agenda
Exposure Assessment
Session Arranged by: Becky Randolph, CIH Clarity Solutions, Inc.
August 21 , 2003 Meeting Agenda
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8:30 - 9:00 AM |
Registration
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9:00 - 10:00 AM
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Exposure Assessment from a Consulting Perspective
Defining and refining the exposure assessment decision matrix to match the unique situations encountered at a client site, meeting their needs and budget constraints. A review of various types of facilities and the dilemmas that can be encountered when trying to complete a workplace exposure assessment according to a standardized protocol
Kathy Harkey
ICU Environmental Health and Safety
The Woodlands, Texas
Three years later
from overwhelmed to better control.
A company perspective on the value of workplace exposure assessment.
Dewey Miles, CSP, OHST
Rohm and Haas
Houston, Texas
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10:00 - 10:45 AM
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Four Steps to a Systematic Industrial Hygiene Program
Food sustains life. However, when food is improperly processed or handled, it can also threaten health. Food service, food supply and processing companies must take action to assess their risk, monitor their operations, and provide training to a more-diverse, rapidly changing workforce. How can we know that the air we breathe at home and at work is safe? Although that issue is the subject of ongoing research, protection of the environment is important to us all. Whether it involves food we eat, air we breathe, water we drink and use, microorganisms like bacteria, mold and viruses play a major role. This seminar is a basic attempt to address some of the potential microbial dangers involved.
An overview of a qualitative industrial hygiene risk ranking tool. The tool allows a swift, comprehensive qualitative industrial hygiene risk ranking, accommodates professional judgment, and helps focus industrial hygiene efforts on real risk issues. Examples are included to allow demonstration of how the tool incorporates professional judgment and subsequent monitoring data.
Cynthia L. Rogers, CIH
Advising Industrial Hygienist
Unocal Corporate HES Houston, Texas
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10:45 - 11:00 AM
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BREAK
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11:00 - 12:00 AM
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Mathematical Models for Estimating and Assessing Exposure
Overview and examples of the current Physical-Chemical Mathematical Models used in industrial hygiene exposure evaluations. It is understood that these models offer crude estimations of exposure. However, the fact that these models are underdeveloped does not mean that they are not useful or valuable industrial hygiene tools. The saturation vapor pressure; well mixed room (constant and exponentially decreasing contaminant emission rate); near field/far field (constant and exponentially decreasing contaminant emission rate); and turbulent eddy diffusion models will be addressed.
Michael Pankoien, Ph.D, CIH, P.E. ARM
Manager, Risk Management Division
SKA Consulting, L.P.
Houston, Texas |
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12:00 - 1:00 PM
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LUNCH
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1:00 - 1:45 PM
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Health Risk Assessments - Management System Approach to Occupational Hygiene and Health
Jerry will describe the exposure assessment approach and implementation for an international chemical company.
Jerry Ransdell, CIH
Shell Chemical
Houston, Texas
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1:45 - 2:45 PM
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Justification for a Comprehensive Strategy for Assessing and Managing Occupational Exposures
Increased global competition and soaring energy prices has created an environment in the chemical industry that is forcing each organizational unit to demonstrate their worth and ability to operate efficiently. The industrial hygiene programs are no exception. Couple this with the growing number of real and perceived risks and ever increasing regulatory and social standards to which industrial hygiene programs are held accountable, and it is easy to understand why it is becoming much more critical than ever for Industrial Hygiene Managers to facilitate their organization's move toward a more efficient comprehensive risk based approach to assessing and managing occupational exposures. The purpose of this presentation is to increase awareness and understanding of the value added when a corporation's industrial hygiene program evolves from the traditional industrial hygiene approach, which emphasizes personal monitoring to measure exposure to air contaminants and other physical hazards, to a comprehensive strategy that is thorough, systematic, well-documented and efficient.
Kandy Beckner, CIH
Corporate HES - Manager Industrial Hygiene
Occidental Chemical Co.
Houston, Texas
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3:00 - 4:00 PM
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To Be Announced
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4:00 - 4:30 PM |
Exposure Assessment Performance Metrics
Examples of how to turn exposure assessments into performance metrics.
Becky Randolph. CIH
Clarity Solutions, Inc.
Houston, Texas
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4:30 PM |
Adjournment
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ICU Environmental Health, & Safety
26022 Oak Ridge Drive
The Woodlands, TX 77380
Office: 281 363 9939
Fax: 281 363 4744
E-mail: icu@icusafety.com |
ICU Environmental Health, & Safety
2300 Hwy. 365, Suite 370
Nederland , TX 77627
Office: 409 727 8227
Fax: 409 729 5075 |
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