AIOH Special Interest Groups (SIGs) / Special Expertise Groups (SEGs) are forums for members to link with other professionals to ask questions and share best practice. SIGs are run as a web based forum and/or email list where email exchanges are broadcasted to all members who have signed-up to the group.

AIOH Infrastructure Construction

AIOH Special Interest group for sharing and discussing Occupational Hygiene related information relevant to Infrastructure Construction. Areas of interest include tunnelling, rail construction, road construction, bridge construction, underground station construction, building demolition, bulk earth moving as well as vertical builds.

AIOH members working in Infrastructure construction or interested in this area are welcome to join this community.

TO JOIN: send an email to AIOHICSIG+subscribe@groups.io and follow the instructions.

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AIOH Indoor Air Quality (including COVID-19)

The Indoor Air Quality SIG provides a discussion forum for developing and sharing best practice occupational hygiene has been moving beyond the coal face and the factory floor to offices, classrooms, hospitals, and shopping centres - and now even further into homes and other residential settings.

The non-specific nature of many issues regarding indoor air quality can make the field both challenging and rewarding.

The Indoor Air Quality SIG will provide a forum most relevant to professionals working in the fields of:

  • Non-industrial building air quality investigations.
  • Mould and moisture testing and assessment.
  • Clean-up after fire, flood and/or water damage.
  • Clandestine drug laboratory assessment, remediation, and validation.

However, those with a genuine interest in Indoor Air Quality Best Practice are welcome to join.

TO JOIN: send an email to aiohiaqseg+subscribe@groups.io and follow the instructions.

 
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Asbestos

Asbestos SIG provides a discussion forum for developing and sharing best practice.

The relevant topics of interest are:

  • Asbestos Management, including surveys and registers.
  • Airborne asbestos fibre sampling.
  • Asbestos identification analysis.
  • Potential for occupational and non-occupational exposure.
  • Asbestos contamination in soils.
  • Naturally occurring asbestos (NOA) and asbestiform materials.

 
TO JOIN: send an email to AIOHasbestosSEG+subscribe@groups.io and follow the instructions.

 
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AIOH Acoustics SIG

The Acoustics SIG provides a discussion forum for developing and sharing best practice.

TO JOIN: send an email to AIOHAcousticsSEG+subscribe@groups.io and follow the instructions.

 
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AIOH Radiation SIG

The AIOH Radiation SIG provides a forum for developing and sharing best practice.

Discussions are most relevant to:

  • People developing or implementing radiation management plans.
  • People responsible for ionisation radiation emitting sources and devices at registered premises.

 

Further details will be made available soon!

AIOH Thermal SIG

The AIOH Thermal SIG provides a forum for developing and sharing best practice.

The management of thermal exposures has long been an issue not only because of the extremes of the environment but also as a result of the variability associated with the human body. Heat stress has proven to be a key issue in industry as well as day to day life, not only impacting directly on the individual but also indirectly as a contributing factor in many safety incidents. Assessment of the hot thermal environment can best be approached via a systematic three step approach that may be applied to a number of varying scenarios where there is a potential risk to heat stress (see blog on the three step protocol). It allows for the application of the right tool for a specific task utilising a variation of risk assessment approaches There is much to discuss when looking into the thermal environment such as acute and chronic illness, hydration and acclimatisation as well as hot surfaces and contact burns and different control approaches across all levels of the hierarchy of controls. These different topics and more are discussed in the Thermal SIG.
 

TO JOIN: visit the home page for further instructions.

 
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