2022 31St Annual CIHC Professional Development Seminar

Oakland Marriott City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607

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PRESENTATIONS

Monday, December 5, 2022

• Welcome — Megan Canright Racicot, MPH, CIH, Director of Scientific Operations, Forensic Analytical Consulting Services, Inc. and Jaime Steedman-Lyde, CIH, CSP, Principal Industrial Hygienist, Yorke Engineering, LLC; Conference Co-Chairs and Board Members, CIHC
• CIHC Update — Pamela Murcell, MS, CIH, CIHC Board President, KWA Safety & HazMat Consultants, Inc.
• Session Chair Welcome and Introductions — Megan Canright Racicot on behalf of Chris Laszcz-Davis, MS, CIH, COH, FAIHA, AIC Fellow; former President, CIHC; President, The Environmental Quality Organization, LLC
• AIHA National Update — Larry Sloan, CAE, Chief Executive Officer, American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) [BIO]
• Update From Cal/OSHA — Jeff Killip, JD, MPH, Cal/OSHA Chief [BIO]
• Exhibitor Demonstration and Exhibits
• Violence — A Hybrid Workplace and Public Health Issue- John Comiskey, EdD, Associate Professor, Interim Chair, Department of Criminal Justice, Monmouth University [BIO]
• Update From CDPH Occupational Health Branch — Kristin Cummings, MD, MPH, Acting Branch Chief, California Department of Public Health [BIO]
• Exhibitor Spotlight KEYNOTE LUNCHEON Algorithms and the Future of Work — John Howard, MD, MPH, JD, LLM, Director, NIOSH [BIO]
• Session Chair Welcome and Introductions — Patty Beach, MS, CIH, Managing Partner, Principal Consultant, Harris and Lee Environmental Sciences, LLC; Board Member, CIHC
• IH Challenges in Pharma — Debbie Keys, CIH, CHMM, Manager, Industrial Hygiene, SafeBridge Consultants, Inc. [BIO]
• Antimicrobial Resistance — Will it Win in the End? A Case Study in How to Safely Analyze Resistance to a Last Line Antibiotic – Susan E. Vleck, PhD, RBP(ABSA), EH&S Assistant Director, Laboratory Chemical and Physical Safety, Manager of the Animal Research Occupational Health & Safety Program, Stanford University
• Exhibitor Demonstration and Exhibits
• Fast Science – EHS Challenges in Biopharmaceutical Research and Development Startups — Heather Pearl, CSP, EHS Consultant, Harris & Lee Environmental Sciences, LLC [BIO]
• EHS and Lab Operations: Finding the Right Balance for Biomedical Research — Eduardo Salas, Lab & Facility Planner, T3 Savills

 Tuesday, December 6, 2022

• Session Chair Welcome and Introductions — Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH, Coordinator, Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network (MHSSN) [BIO]
• Protecting Global Supply Chain Workers in the Post-Covid World — Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH, Coordinator, Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network (MHSSN) [BIO]
• Building Grassroots OHS Capacity for Workers and Their Community Organizations — Karen Gunderson, MPH, CIH, Loss Prevention Manager, State Compensation Insurance Fund; Member, DWOI [BIO]
• Exhibitor Demonstration and Exhibits
• Addressing the Global Economy Inside the United States — Suzanne Teran, MPH, Associate Director, Labor Occupational Health Program [BIO]
• The Developing World Outreach Initiative’s Efforts to Address the Global Economy Inside the United States — Richard Hirsh, MPH, CIH, FAIHA, Sr. Director, Environmental, Health & Safety, Nektar Therapeutics; Chair, Developing World Outreach Initiative (DWOI) [BIO]
• Protecting Women Workers — the Majority of Supply Chain Workers Worldwide — Rola Abimourched, MA, Deputy Director of Investigations and Gender Equity, Worker Rights Consortium [BIO]
  ~ presenting virtually ~
• Session Chair Welcome and Introductions — Pamela Murcell, MS, CIH, CIHC President; President, KWA Safety & HazMat Consultants, Inc.
• Verification of eACH in High Occupant-Density Spaces — Donna S. Heidel, MS, CIH, FAIHA, Principal Industrial Hygienists, Amazon; AIHA President
• The Assessment and Cleanup of an Opioid Contaminated Site and Establishment of California's Standards — Michael A. Polkabla, CIH, REA, Senior Certified Industrial Hygienist and Principal, BioMax Environmental, Inc.
• Exhibitor Demonstration and Exhibits
• Boston Unified School District & Real Time Monitoring in Every Classroom: Review of the Decisions & Data for 2021-22 — Ron McMahan, Dir. of Sales-Innovation, SGS Galson
• Testing Ventilation Systems for Pathogen Protection — Erik Malmstrom, CEO, SafeTraces; Phil Arnold, Vice President of Engineering, SafeTraces

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

• Session Chair Welcome, Introductions, and Background — Madeleine Rebullida, Senior Project Manager, Forensic Analytical Consulting Services, Inc. [BIO]
• PFAS State of the Science: From Regulations to Sampling & Analytical Procedures— Andrew Patterson, Technical Director, Eurofins Environment Testing (USA) [BIO]
• Waterborne Pathogen Disinfection and Remediation in Building Water Systems — Michael Castro, MPH, CWT, Business Development Manager, Barclay Water Management, Inc. [BIO]
• Exhibitor Demonstration and Exhibits
• Lessons Learned from AB2370 Childcare Lead Testing — Lydia Feng, MS, CIH, Senior Project Manager, Forensic Analytical Consulting Services, Inc. [BIO]; Rebecca Schiffer, CSST, Assistant Local Director, Forensic Analytical Consulting Services, Inc.
• Waterborne Pathogens: Outbreak Investigations — Madeleine Rebullida, CAC, Senior Project Manager, Forensic Analytical Consulting Services, Inc. [BIO]
• Session Co-Chairs Welcome and Introductions — Beth Sackett, President, SKC-West, Inc. and Andy Carroll, COHC, Technical Sales Rep, SKC-West, Inc.
• Ear Poisons: Introduction to Ototoxicants — Eduardo Shaw, CIH, CSP, Environmental Health & Safety Lead, Ericsson [BIO]
• Possible Effects of Ototoxicants on the Hearing Conservation Program — Andy Bragg, COHC, Director of Sales, SKC, Inc. [BIO]
• Closing Remarks — Megan Canright Racicot, MPH, CIH, Director of Scientific Operations, Forensic Analytical Consulting Services, Inc. and Jaime Steedman-Lyde, CIH, CSP, Principal Industrial Hygienist, Yorke Engineering, LLC; Conference Co-Chairs and Board Members, CIHC