1974
The AIHA Laboratory Accreditation
Program is established.
1977
AIHA creates the American Industrial
Hygiene Foundation.
1978
AIHA publishes the first Workplace
Environmental Exposure Level (WEEL)
Guides.
1989
Publication of The Synergist,
a quarterly newsletter, begins.
1992
AIHA moves its headquarters to
Fairfax, Va.
1994
AIHA, ACGIH and ABIH adopt a joint
code of ethics for industrial hygienists.
1996
First issue of The Synergist
as a magazine.
2004
2008
2009
AIHA® and ACGIH® begin joint
publication of the Journalof Occupational
and Environmental Hygiene.
AIHA's Laboratory Quality Assurance Program is
reorganized as the AIHA Laboratory Accreditation
Programs, LLC.
Page 36
Top: Alice Hamilton, a pioneer in the field of industrial hygiene, at Chrysler Industrial Hygiene Laboratories in 1936. With Hamilton are (left to right) AIHA
founders Carey McCord, Gordon Harrold, and Stuart
Meek.
Middle: AIHA’s first president, William P. Yant (left),
with president-elect Warren A. Cook in a 1940 photo.
Bottom: AIHA’s first banquet, at the Hotel Pennsylvania
in New York City, 1940.
AIHA and ACGIH announce plans to develop
a strategic alliance.
Page 37
Top: The MSA Exhibit at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference in Washington, D.C., 1962.
Middle: A map of AIHA’s local sections in 1940.
Today, AIHA has 72 local sections.
Bottom: Attendees and exhibitors in an undated
photo from AIHce.
