The Young Occupational Hygienist

This blog aims to channel the inner ‘young’ person suppressed deep inside a mid-30′s mum of three, and to be a platform for raising the awareness of our profession of Occupational Hygiene for it is indeed the #bestjobintheworld

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Young Hygienist Snapshot: Mark Reggers

Young Hygienist Snapshot: Mark Reggers

Wow blast from the past! Sometimes life gets in the way of a good blog…and that’s the only excuse I have for being so tardy when showcasing the fabulous hygienists of the world. Please forgive the time between posts…and welcome the first young hygienist snapshot of 2016 – Mark Reggers.

Mark first came across Occupational Hygiene through his role as an Account Manager at Protector Alsafe selling…

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Mmwhaaa Goodbye!

It’s been a while between posts. It’s been a nice break, but I have missed you my blog!

2014 was a great year. Over 730 people started following this blog from over 20 different countries (and counting). I learnt a lot from the Draeger Award trip, from the AIHA’s Future Leaders Institute, and from pulling together the numerous Young Hygienist Snapshots that were published each week. I also learnt…

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Young Hygienist Snapshot: Kate Cole

Young Hygienist Snapshot: Kate Cole (Me!)

This will be the last Young Hygienist Snapshot for 2014. I have been officially replaced as the “Young Hygienist” now as the winner of the 2014 Draeger Young Hygienist Award was announced at the AIOH Conference in early December – Congratulations goes to Mitch Thompson!!!

This doesn’t mean that this blog is over, it just means that it’s time for a change and a bit of a chance to mix things up a…

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Young Hygienist Snapshot: Brett Young

Young Hygienist Snapshot: Brett Young

Brett is a Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH) working for INPEX Australia as the Senior Health and Hygiene Advisor on the Ichthys LNG Project. Based in Perth, Western Australia he is developing INPEX’s health and hygiene management system, SAP IH, hygiene training requirements and service contracts in preparation for operations, which is expected to commence in late 2016.

Prior to joining…

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AIOH2014 - The Wrap Up

AIOH2014 - The Wrap Up #thornton

Well the AIOH conference is over for another year. We have had a week for the dust to settle and heads to recover. Melbourne put on a great event, but I don’t think my body could have handled another night of social events. I need at least a year to recover – bring on #AIOH2015!

The CES sessions kicked off on Saturday. I attended the session “Strategies to get attention on your safety message.”T…

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Young Hygienist Snapshot: Letty Wong [INTERNATIONAL EDITION!]

Letty is a fellow FLI graduate and an occupational hygienist (CIH/ROH) practicing in Toronto, Canada (eh?).  She is an OH consultant working for BluMetric Environmental Inc., a Canadian consulting firm, and leading the Toronto OHS group. Professionally, she has been an OHS consultant pretty much all of  career (with two short stints as an occupational hygienist in a hospital). In the past, she…

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Congrats to Guest Bloggers Alex & Kristy!

Congrats to Guest Bloggers Alex & Kristy! #TheCanary #AIOH2014 #ScottSafety

Two of our Guest Bloggers Alex Wilson and Kristy Thornton were winners of the inaugural Canary at the recent AIOH Conference last week!

The AIOH Canary is all about Communicating Awareness – a New Approach Representing us on YouTube. It involved entrants creating a short video (less than 5-minutes) that helped any or all of a series of questions, basically all revolving around raising awareness…

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Young Hygienist Snapshot: Brandon Reese [INTERNATIONAL EDITION!]

Young Hygienist Snapshot: Brandon Reese [INTERNATIONAL EDITION!]

I was lucky enough to meet Brandon at AIHA’s FLI program in October. Brandon has a Bachelor’s degree in Science with an emphasis in Industrial Hygiene from Utah State University. Brandon is somewhat of an honorary Australian as he spent 3 years working in Perth and travelling out to various gold mines across Australia – how awesome is that! He now works in Nevada and manages the Safety and…

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Young Hygienist Snapshot: Matt Zock [INTERNATIONAL EDITION!]

Young Hygienist Snapshot: Matt Zock [INTERNATIONAL EDITION!]

Raised in a small town in northwestern Pennsyltuckey, USA (for you city folk that’s what we call rural Pennsylvania) and having never experienced air travel I attended Clarion University (a whopping 59 miles from home) with no ardent academic interests. After years of playing rugby and cruising through basic coursework I determined that I would study biology, and for all the right reasons (my…

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Welcome to #AIOH2014

The Annual AIOH Conference has kicked off with a bang with the Continuing Education Sessions (CES) today. As with all Conferences, the first thing I love to do is to check out the Conference App to see what’s on. This year the AIOH2014 app features a “Click Game”.  The game started at 7am this morning and runs until Thursday afternoon. It involves you taking photos and posting them to the app to…

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AIOH 2014 Melbourne

The Annual AIOH Conference #AIOH2014

The annual conference of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH) kicks off in Melbourne this weekend. It is an international conference which promotes the science and practice of protecting worker health and brings together researchers, practitioners, regulators and those people interested in occupational hygiene, to discuss issues that affect health at work.

If you are an…

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Who will win The Canary?

Who will win The Canary? #AIOH2014 #TheCanary

The AIOH launched The Canary this year which is all about Communicating Awareness – a New Approach Representing us on YouTube. It involves creating a short video (less than 5-minutes) that helps any or all of a series of questions, basically all revolving around raising awareness of our profession.  This year’s entries have now closed and they are in the process of being judged. The winner (and…

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Young Hygienist Snapshot: Ritesh Patel

Ritesh began his career as an Industrial Hygienist and EHS Coordinator in India about 11 years ago after completing his master’s degree in Industrial Hygiene (MIH). He is an Industrial Chemistry graduate (B.Sc.). He has worked as a site and regional occupational hygienist and an EHS professional for multinational pharmaceuticals and chemicals manufacturing companies. After becoming a Certified…

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Young Hygienist Snapshot: Emma Gilmour [INTERNATIONAL EDITION!]

Young Hygienist Snapshot: Emma Gilmour [INTERNATIONAL EDITION!]

Emma is a young and very enthusiastic hygienist who shown herself to be eager to learn and get involved in a profession that needs people like her. She self funded herself on a MSc in Occ Hygiene with the University of Portsmouth as she felt that occupational hygiene was the right fit for her. She is interested in all aspects of the subject but is a little bit geeky when it comes to Legionella…

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