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The opening and closing plenaries
offered presentations by five contributing experts and authors
in the field of occupational safety and health.
Opening
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Dr. John Howard,
Director of NIOSH, has a wide array of experience in
the occupational health and safety field. He spent the
last 12 years administering occupational and public
safety programs. He has also served as an assistant
professor of environmental and occupational medicine
at the University of California at Irvine; served as
medical director and chief clinician of the Philip Mandelker
AIDS Prevention Clinic; and served as an assistant counselor
to the Under Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Howard is a board-certified occupational physician
and has written numerous papers on occupational health
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John Henshaw,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety
and Health, heads the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA). He has more than 26 years’
experience directing environmental safety and health
programs in the chemical industry and has recently served
as director of environment, safety and health for Astaris
LLC. Mr. Henshaw is a Certified Industrial Hygienist
and a Registered Occupational Hygienist. He has authored
articles on safety and health management as well as
chapters in industrial hygiene and management textbooks.
He also served three and a half years in the Air National
Guard as a bio-environmental engineer with the rank
of Captain and was honorably discharged in 2000. |
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Sue Baker, an
epidemiologist specializing in injury prevention, serves
as Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research
and Policy. She loves to teach and takes pride in the
accomplishments of the many students who have passed
through the program at Hopkins, which includes a NIOSH-supported
training program in occupational injury prevention.
Sue is an ardent advocate of policy changes that will
prevent injuries. Much of her teaching and research
is designed to influence the legislators, administrators,
media representatives, and others whose decisions can
determine the likelihood of injury for thousands of
people. Sue’s occupational safety research has
included motor vehicle and airplane crashes, injuries
to automotive workers and the military, and issues such
as alcohol and the design of workplaces and vehicles.
She is a licensed private pilot and her aviation research
includes a focus on pilots of commuter aircraft crashes.
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Closing
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Lisa Cullen, industrial
hygienist, has spent fifteen years assessing workplace
hazards, developing and implementing compliance procedures,
and performing exposure monitoring. She holds a certification
by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, is a volunteer
for the FIGHT Project, and is a contributing editor
for Occupational Hazards Magazine. Lisa is the author
of the recently released book, “A Job to Die For:
Why so Many Americans are Killed, Injured or Made Ill
at Work and What to Do About It”. She will discuss
the safety and health disconnect between reality and
public perception in a presentation entitled “Reality
versus the Public Perception of Occupational Injury.” |
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Dr. David Parker,
Physician in Occupational Medicine, has served in the
Epidemic Intelligence Service with the CDC and has published
over 50 scientific manuscripts in the area of occupational
safety and health. He is the author of “Stolen
Dreams: Portraits of Working Children” and “By
These Hands: Portraits from the Factory Floor.”
Dr. Parker’s photographs have been widely exhibited
throughout the US and Canada and are in collections
of the Library of Congress, the Minneapolis Institute
of Arts, the Lowell National Historical Park, and the
national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Dr. Parker will
present his photographs/slides in a presentation entitled
“Picturing Work: The Industrial Landscape and
Occupational Health.” |
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