OHS List serve:
The OHS Section of APHA is now hosting a list serve to share information about workplace health and safety. The list serve is open to both APHA members and non-members alike; any and all occupational safety and health professionals and advocates are invited to join! Participants will be able to:
- share information that is specific to workplace health and safety such as current events, conferences, advocacy campaigns, job announcements, or publications
- ask questions or initiate discussions about occupational health issues
- raise and discuss APHA issues that affect the OHS Section
To sign up, send a blank email to ohs-join@migrantclinician.com.
Many thanks to Amy Liebman, Diane Bush, and the Migrant Clinicians Network for setting up and housing the list serve!
OHS Student Resources:
Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP):
The OHIP is an experiential learning activity for students interested in worker health and safety prevention and rights. The program is supported by a grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and administered by the Association for Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC). Every year, OHIP interns present their research at the American Public Health Association annual meeting. The 2009 OHIP presenters were Chris Le (USC) and Maya Saraf (UCLA) on green jobs, safe jobs in building retrofits; Nancy Zuniga (UCLA) and Ruby Gonzalez (UCLA) on coping mechanisms for household workers; and Morgan Smith, RN, Christina Kaoh (Harvard) and Natalie Price (UCLA) on hazards faced by truck drivers working at the southern California ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland. More about OHIP here.
Journals:
New Solutions journal:
New Solutions is one of the few journals entirely devoted to occupational and environmental health policy. It publishes research articles, interviews with activitists, documents and reports. All the journals editors are long-time members of the APHA OHS Section.
Historical Articles and Documents:
OHS Section's beginning as Industrial Hygiene Section.
This is an article from APHA's The Nation's Health on the history of the OHS Section: Hayhurst ER. Industrial Hygiene Section 1914-1934. It mentions some of the founding members of the Section, including the first two Section Chairs: George M. Kober and Alice Hamilton.
OSHA's New Directions Grant Program, Jimmy Carter Administration.
OSHA's deputy assistant secretary, Basil J. Whiting, shares his perspective on the capacity-building philosophy and structure of its 1977-1981 worker training grants program in: Early Worker and Employer Training Initiatives at OSHA, Toxicology and Industrial Health. 1989; 5(4): 87-95.