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Free eTool: Industrial Hygiene Exposure Assessment Characterization

industrial hygiene exposure assessment decision matrix

Anticipate, Identify, Recognize

When starting an occupational exposure assessment, the first step a practicing industrial hygienist must do is be able to anticipate, identify, and/or recognize workplace hazards so that stressors that may impact employee health can be evaluated later in the assessment. Understanding the workplace, how chemical and physical agents are generated and the existing control measures (e.g. engineering controls) in place, help the industrial hygienist to develop an effective plan for evaluating risks.

IHEST – Industrial Hygiene Exposure Scenario Tool

AIHA has released the free IHEST (Industrial Hygiene Exposure Scenario Tool) which helps an industrial hygienist to identify and capture basic exposure potential data, for the purpose of improving evaluation accuracy in the assessment process. The tool includes prompts for:

  • Process Overview
  • Task Description
  • Exposure Controls
  • Similar Exposure Groups
  • Employee Tasks
  • Ventilation
  • Room layout
  • Airborne concentrations
  • Dermal exposures, and
  • Noise exposures

Download a copy of the AIHA IHEST from AIHA’s website or without macros below.

Source: AIHA

Statistical Analysis of Health & Safety Data – IHSTAT

Are you looking for statistical analysis of health and safety data (e.g. number of measured occupational exposures that exceed established OELS)? Take a look at OHShub.com’s post on IHSTAT, where you can download AIHA’s excel worksheet that can perform some basic statistics for you.


Contractor Pre-Job Safety Checklist Template

Contractors in General Industry & Construction

With nearly 100 deaths per week (or 15 per day) on job sites around the United States, protecting our employees is more important than ever. For many years, contractors have typically made up the majority of the working population on construction sites, however, industry is seeing a rise in contractor populations onsite, often due to facilities becoming increasingly lean. Unfortunately, too often, owning organizations do not take the same level of ownership for the safety of contractors while they are working on their sites, which inevitably leads to an increase in injuries and illnesses.

Pre-Job Safety Checklist

The use of a pre-job safety checklist is one of the most valuable tools that an owning organization can utilize to ensure that a contractor is complying with the safety requirements of a job site. While it’s certainly not the only tool, it ensures that the safety priorities of the site are reviewed before the job commences. This provides a time for the contractor and their point of contact to discuss the job, expectations, safety implications, and mitigating factors. All crucial to ensuring that job goes well and personnel are kept safe.

The following pre-job safety checklist provides a starting point for organizations that do not currently utilize a pre-job safety review. While there may be portions of the template that are not applicable to your site, and other considerations that are not include, the checklist is provided in Microsoft Word format to allow for easy editing.

Download OHShub.com’s free Pre-Job Safety Checklist.