Georgia Local Section, AIHA
 Summer Seminar, July 2001

Date:          July 20, 2001 (Friday); 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location:    Mirant Corporation
                    1155 Perimeter Center West
                    Atlanta, Georgia
                    (next to Sandy Springs MARTA Station)
                    (click here for map and driving directions)
                     Note: please park on upper level of parking deck

TO REGISTER: Please make your check payable to Georgia Local Section, AIHA and mail to:

Ed Grunwald
Parsons Engineering Science
5390 Triangle Parkway, Suite 100
Norcross, GA  30092
(E-mail - ed.grunwald@parsons.com)

E-mail pre registration is allowed but you are obligated to pay your registration fee even if you later decide you can't attend.

Presented by: Martin Harper, PhD CIH, Assistant Professor,
University of Alabama, Birmingham

Agenda:

Sampling Aerosols (1.5 hours) Isocyanates (1 hour)
  • History
  • Sampling conventions
  • Inhalable samplers
  • IOM, Button, CIS
  • Limitations of inhalable sampling
  • Inhalable TLVs
  • Thoracic sampling
  • Respirable sampling
  • Cyclones, others
  • Silica sampling and analysis
  • Fibers
  • Government attitudes to sampling conventions (USA/Canada/Europe)
  • Personal PM10 and PM2.5 sampling
  • Diesel exhaust sampling and analysis
  • Mono and di-isocyanates
  • Polymeric isocyanates
  • Health effects
  • Sampling issues
  • Direct-reading instruments
  • Sampling and laboratory analysis
  • Standard methods
  • Thermal decomposition products
  • Respirators
  • Dermal exposure assessment

Metal-Working Fluids (1 hour)
  • Chemical contaminants
  • Biological contaminants
  • Exposure limits
  • Extraction methods
  • Thoracic samplers
  • Health effects
  • Safety and health standard
  • Controls and work practices

One-half Certification Maintenance (CM) awarded - ABIH approval #16045

Dr Harper is Assistant Professor of Industrial Hygiene in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has degrees in geology, pollution control, environmental science and analytical chemistry, as well as a PhD in research into industrial hygiene sampling methods from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, England. He is Certified in the Chemical Practice of Industrial Hygiene and is also a Chartered Chemist. He is a past-Chair of the AIHA's Gas & Vapor Detection Committee, and is currently Chair of the Analytical Accreditation Board's Proficiency Testing Committee. He is also a member of the AIHA's Sampling & Laboratory Analysis Committee, as well as committees in the ASTM and ISO. He has over 40 publications in occupational and environmental hygiene, including several encyclopedia contributions. He has lectured in 18 countries.