ZPH Science Lunch “Research Impacts after International Agency for  Research on Cancer (IARC) Classification of Silica  Dust as a Known Carcinogen: Global Perspective” Presented by: David F. Goldsmith, PhD Via WEBEXJune 20, 20246:00 a.m. EDT, 10:00 UTC, 12:00 Vienna (Austria) The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) examined the animal and human evidence for […]

Heat Stress Webinar, June 13 Hello Workplace Health Without Borders (WHWB) members and friends.  With climate change, many of us are dealing with how to protect workers as temperatures climb to unprecedented levels. Please attend our next free webinar on   Heat Stress June 13, 202410:00 a.m. Eastern DaylightTime (EDT)14:00 UTC2:00 p.m. GMT   Speaker: Dr.

The Saeed Awan Lecture “Immersive Occupational Health: An innovative approach to reaching rural workers” Presented by: Dua Awan and Abdul Rehman Alvi, M.D On ZoomOctober 26, 20239:00 a.m. EDT, 13:00 UTC, 18:00 Lahore (Pakistan) Workers in traditional rural industries and international supply chains seldom receive much occupational health attention. Saeed Awan took this as a

Do you want a mentor? We all can benefit from having  a mentor at some stage of our career, whether we are a young person just beginning our career, or a grizzled veteran embarking on a different aspect of a field like OHS, that we may have been have been involved in for years. The

Essential, but Treated as Expendable Farmworkers are vital to climate justice. One of the pressing elements of climate change is the question of who is most at risk. Farmworkers are clearly among those who are paying the heaviest price for record-breaking heat. Their labors are essential for a steady food supply, while their health is

Black Lung Resurgence in Appalachia David Goldsmith has just drawn our attention to an article from Kaiser Health News on coal worker’s pneumoconiosis arising from high silica exposures among coal miners in central Appalachia. “I just became aware of this alarming article about CWP and high silica exposures in today’s US coal mines. Please share