Synergist - June/July 2009

Over the last few months, the Value
Strategy Work Group has further defined
the strategy and made the following up-
grades to the VotP process:
• replaced qualitative and quantitative
analysis with sound financial principles
more common for business analysis;

• gave a more prominent role to nonfinancial benefits and business objectives;

• added standard, off-the-shelf methods
for project and hazard risk assessment
and business alignment; and
• described the utility of the process in
the related practices of safety and en-
vironmental protection.

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The manual, which will provide training and education on the value strategy for industrial hygienists, is under development. The target date for publication is before AIHce 2010 in Denver.

The Work Group will be looking for
volunteers who are willing to provide test
cases for trials. If your company has ei-
ther recently conducted or is in need of a
financial analysis of a proposed health,
safety or environmental project, we want
to hear from you: contact Mary Ann
Latko at mlatko@aiha.org. At PCIH 2009
in Vancouver, the Work Group will
demonstrate the Value Strategy in a half-
day workshop intended to allow partici-
pants to critique the revised strategy. The
Work Group will also be seeking repre-
sentatives from business and academia to
critically review our methods.

In Memoriam LEONARD L. JENSEN, PHD, CIH

It is with great sorrow that we report the death of longtime AIHA member Dr. Leonard L. Jensen, PhD, CIH. Jensen, who passed away on April 22, 2009, had been a member of AIHA for over a decade at the time of his death.

After receiving a baccalaureate degree from the University of Toledo, Dr. Jensen obtained a master’s degree and PhD in industrial hygiene from Wayne State University. He began his career working as a sanitarian for the City of Dearborn, Mich., then moved on to Ford Motor Company where he served as a human factors engineer, industrial hygienist and toxicologist. After leaving Ford, Dr. Jensen worked for Chrysler’s industrial hygiene department, then became principal of Jensen Environmental Training Services Inc. (JETS), a Michigan-based environmental compliance training services business, in 1974. Dr. Jensen also served as a part-time faculty member at Wayne State University in the occupational and environmental health sciences department. Prior to working in the OEHS field, Jensen served as a bomber navigator in the U.S. Army-Air Corps.