WHWB-US Board member Dr. David Goldsmith has had three abstracts accepted for the September International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) meeting “Management of the Afghan Refugee Resettlement Crisis and Integration Challenges” with Absaar Ateeq; and “Lithuanian Refugee Crises: Comparing Middle Eastern/African and Ukrainian Migrants” with Ruta Brazinskaite. The latter two abstracts grew from the efforts […]
WHWB-UK is involved with a project among informal workers in Kenya. This project will initially focus on noise from metal workers as illustrated in this video clip: https://youtu.be/PGPUVJv6aQM. A grant application has been approved to fund provision of hearing protection starting with a small pilot group of informal workers in Mombasa. Subject to COVID restrictions,
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Global Asbestos Awareness Week Webinar On Friday, April 8, OSHAfrica in partnership with ADAO, National Institute for Occupational Health, AUDA-NEPAD held a webinar to observe Global Asbestos Awareness Week. You can link to the recording of the webinar here.
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Posting To the WHWB Blog and Website OK, let’s assume that you have joined WHWB and after monitoring the site for a while decide you want to post something here on the WHWB blog. How do you go about it? The first thing to do is decide what you are going to write about, then
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Your Thoughts on the Website The present version of the WHWB website has been “live” for about 7 weeks now and we hope you have had an opportunity to explore it. We also hope you approve of the change we have made to make it a bit more contemporary than the old site. We are
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The WHWB-UK branch has added a link on their webpage to the silica elearning course developed by WHWB-UK member Terry McDonald. This course can be viewed by going to the WHWB-UK page and following the link: Silica Awareness e-learning near the bottom of the page. Alternatively just follow this link directly to the course: Silica
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WHWB, along with several other Canadian non-profit organizations, sponsored a letter to Canadian government officials about aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The letter, signed by more than 500 occupational health and safety experts, physicians, nurses, engineers, and scientists, calls for recognition of aerosol transmission and more efforts to provide good ventilation and PPE to prevent COVID-19.
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