Upcoming Meetings

Past Meetings

The Carolinas Section will be holding the Spring Professional Development Course and Conference on March 17-18, 2010 at the Clarion Hotel State Capital in Raleigh, NC. Don’t miss this opportunity to earn CM points. Sign up soon as this event is expected to sell out quickly!

Day 1 will consist of two half-day PDC sessions.

• The first topic is Combustible Dust Panel with panelists including:
  • Jonathan Hale, MS - Air Systems Corporation
  • Representative from NC DOL
  • Marty Schloss, PE - KBD/Technic, Inc.
  • Ron Allen - Imperial Sugar
    
    
• The second topic is ABIH Ethics by Nancy Orr, CIH from the Joint Industrial Hygiene Ethics Education Committee (JIHEEC). The ethics portion of the PDC is an abbreviated version of the full-day PDC that was rated in the Top 10 at the 2009 AIHCe. This will be the second AIHCe Top 10 PDC that the Carolinas Section has provided over the past two conferences.
  

Day 2 offers the main conference which includes:

• The New Health and Safety Management – Systems Style by Lindsay Cook, CIH, CSP of The EI Group, Inc.
• Health Hazards Control Unit Program Update by Mary Giguere, CIH
• Student Spotlight Presentations
• Governmental Affairs Update by Aaron Trippler
• Industry Profile by Mark Hefley of Nucor Steel
• NC OSHA Update by Phil Hooper, CIH from the NC Department of Labor
• Civil Liability of Corporate Industrial Hygienists in North Carolina and South Carolina by George A. Dwiggins, PhD, JD, CIH

And, of course, don't miss the exhibit hall!

Download the flyer for additional information about the agenda, other speakers, costs, and for the registration form.

Contact UNC-ERC for details.

REGIONAL LUNCHEONS

Lunch meetings - Informal luncheons to network with local IH peers

City meetings are held in different parts of the Carolinas as a way for members to attend technical presentations and network with their peers. There are currently three groups who are meeting on a regular basis: Triad area, RTP area, and Charlotte area

Triad area

Marie Fitzgerald (mariefitzgerald@bellsouth.net)

AIHA continues to hold quarterly city luncheon meetings in the Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point area. You do not have to be a member of AIHA to attend. 

Susan Buchanan (susan_km_buchanan@urscorp.com) is coordinating the lunchtime City Meetings in the Research Triangle Park area. Her goal is for one every quarter or so.

Information for the next RTP lunch meeting July 23rd is as follows:

Please join us on July 23rd at the US EPA facility in Research Triangle Park for a presentation on Hazards of Combustible Dusts. Our speaker is Kevin O'Barr, who is the supervisor of the standards section in the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Division of NC-DOL.  Kevin will discuss some of the accidents caused by dust explosions, highlight ways to minimize or eliminate the risk of an explosion and explain how NC-DOL is addressing the problem.

Kevin has 20 years safety and health experience including time in both private industry and government.  He has a degree in Environmental Chemistry from Rollins College and a Masters degree in Industrial Hygiene from the University of Washington’s School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

Any combustible material (and some materials normally considered noncombustible) can burn rapidly when in a finely divided form. If such a dust is suspended in air in the right concentration, it can become explosive. The force from such an explosion can cause employee deaths, injuries, and destruction of entire buildings. Such incidents have killed scores of employees and injured hundreds over the past few decades.  Materials that may form combustible dust include metals (such as aluminum and magnesium), wood, coal, plastics, biosolids, sugar, paper, soap, dried blood, and certain textiles. In many cases, employers and employees were unaware that a hazard even existed.   

We have a meeting room from 11:30 to 1:30, but please plan to arrive earlier to allow time to get through security. You can bring lunch or buy some at the cafeteria, or just sit and chat before the meeting begins. Our speaker will start around noon, take questions around 1p. Please RSVP by COB on Tues July 21st Jesse McDaniel (jmcdaniel@nc.rr.com) so he can prepare the list for EPA's security. Feel free to invite others. All will need a government-issued photo identification. Directions to EPA are provided below. 

DIRECTIONS TO U.S. EPA

Follow the directions below and park in the "visitor" parking at the main facility. If visitor parking is full, return toward the gate and park in the National Computer Center lot and walk/catch the shuttle bus to the main facility. Enter the main entrance (Building C), proceed through security, obtain a visitor's pass from the guard desk (typically not issued at the front gate) and head down the stairs to the cafeteria & classrooms.

From Raleigh, Raleigh-Durham International Airport, and Points East via Interstate 40.
Take Interstate 40 West to Exit 279A, "Durham Freeway (NC Highway 147) South". (The sign prior to the exit says "To Alexander Drive".) Take exit, which will put you on the Durham Freeway, and continue until you reach a traffic light at the "T" intersection with Alexander Drive. Turn left onto Alexander Drive. Go to next traffic light which is the entrance to the U.S. EPA Facility (on left).

From Chapel Hill and Points West via Interstate 40
Take Interstate 40 East to Exit 279A, "Durham Freeway(or N.C. 147) South". (The sign prior to the exit says "To Alexander Drive".) Take exit, which will put you on the Durham Freeway, and continue until you reach a traffic light at the "T" intersection with Alexander Drive. Turn left onto Alexander Drive. Go to next traffic light which is the entrance to the New EPA Facility (on left).

From Downtown Durham via Durham Freeway
Take Durham Freeway (NC Highway 147) South toward Research Triangle Park. Continue until you reach a traffic light at the "T" intersection with Alexander Drive. Turn left onto Alexander Drive. Go to next traffic light which is the entrance to the New EPA Facility (on left)

Susan Kay Buchanan, CIH
URS Corporation
Raleigh-Durham, NC
susan_km_buchanan@urscorp.com
919-461-1320 phone
919-461-1415 fax

Charlotte, NC

Vince Maisto plans the City Meetings for Charlotte, NC.

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, July 14, 2009 from 11:45 to 1:15.

Our next Greater Charlotte Area AIHA Luncheon will be held on Tuesday July 14, 2009 from 11:45 to 1:15.  This luncheon will feature a presentation from Patrick Grogan, Southeast Regional Sales Solutions Manager from Entech Instruments.  He will give a brief overview of “Recent developments in Whole Air Sampling for personal and area sampling”.

We will be meeting again at Sir Edmond Halley's Restaurant and Freehouse in the Park Road Shopping Center.  Visit www.halleyspub.com   for more information, directions, or to view their $8 Parliament Lunch Menu.  If you plan on attending, please RSVP so I can prepare the restaurant for our expected group size.  Thanks and I hope to see you there.

Vince Maisto
EI Group
704-593-1640 office
336-455-2558 cell
704-593-1650 fax
vmaisto@ei1.com

More volunteers for other areas in NC and SC are needed!

Contact Sam Ingram at (704) 391-4327 if you would like to start meetings in your area.

The meetings are a good way to get Certification Maintenance Points. You can get 0.5 CM points per every 3 hours of meeting you attend, over the span of a 5-year cycle.

ABIH does request that a CM Point Inquiry Form be submitted for each meeting (you can access that from the ABIH Web site)

NC ASSE Luncheons

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Last Updated: August 21, 2007