6:00 pm – Registration/Social Hour
7:00 pm – Presentation
8:00 pm – Program concludes.
Please join us in person (or online) for our February Technical Meeting! There is a parking garage on site with free parking.
If a registrant is unable to attend, we are able to provide a refund for registrations that are canceled prior February 17, 2023.
Topic: Many workplace environments involve use of direct-reading instruments for environmental compliance, homeland security applications, and workforce health and safety. The diversity of instrument makes/models are large, but there are common technical competencies required to ensure the safe operation, data interpretation, and maintenance practices occur for these devices to work effectively, and most importantly, for workers to know that a hazardous condition is present to take proper precautions. This presentation will summarize the BoK, and help IH, Safety and Environmental Health professionals to examine their organizational policies, plans and training to ensure appropriate technical competency and demonstrated user skills are implemented to operate and to interpret data/alerts of the appropriate direct-reading instruments in a workplace environment.
A few years ago, AIHA project team developed a Body of Knowledge (BoK) on "Guidance on Use of Direct-Reading Instruments."
About our speaker: Acting Director and Public Health Advisor for FEMA’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Office, Joselito (Lito) Ignacio MPH, MA, CIH, CSP, REHS advises senior leaders on chemical and biological agent public health impacts, and how those impacts inform FEMA response and recovery plans and actions to support impacted state, local, tribal and territorial communities. Ignacio teaches incident response at the Defense Nuclear Weapons School in Albuquerque, New Mexico to incorporate National Incident Management System planning into Department of Defense processes. He also represents FEMA on the National Response Team, serves on White House National Security Council Policy Coordination Groups and is a fully qualified current and future planning unit lead. Ignacio, a retired U.S. Public Health Service Officer, previously served as CBRN’s science advisor, DHS Chemical Defense Program Deputy Director and U.S. Coast Guard Safety and Environmental Health Officer. Additionally, Ignacio served as an Environmental Science Officer in the U.S. Army for eight years. Ignacio is also a Certified Industrial Hygienist, a Certified Safety Professional, and a Registered Environmental Health Specialist.
We are looking forward to seeing you in person! Or if you can’t make it to the venue, we will see you online.