Synergist - May 2010

For the last five years, Moure-Eraso has worked as a professor and graduate coordinator at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Work Environment in the School of Health and Environment. He was also a visiting lecturer teaching occupational health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He received considerable experience in the chemical and petrochemical industry while working as an industrial hygiene engineer at the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW).

Moure-Eraso has served as a member of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health for OSHA,

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JournalofOccupationalandEnvironmentalHygiene

May JOEH Addresses Lead Exposure, Insertion Loss of Noise Barriers The May issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene is now available and features the following articles:

Identifying Sources of Lead Exposure for Children, with Lead Concentrations and Isotope Ratios By P. Glorennec, C. Peyr, J. Poupon, Y. Oulhote, and B. Le Bot Inter-Worker Variability in Lower Body Postures During Assembly Line Work: Implications for Exposure Assessment By W. Monroe Keyserling, Neal Wiggermann, Robert A. Werner, and Nancy Gell Insertion Loss of Noise Barriers on an Aboveground, Full-Scale Model Longwall Coal Mining Shearer By Daniel D. Sweeney, Jeremy M. Slagley, and David A. Smith Metalworking Fluid-Related Aerosols in Machining Plants By Yan Gilbert, Marc Veillette, Anne Mériaux, Jacques Lavoie, Yvon Cormier, and Caroline Duchaine Validity Assessment of Self-Reported Construction Tasks By Katherine L. Hunting, Elizabeth Haile, Lisa Nessel, and Laura S. Welch Exposures and Physiological Responses in Power Tool Operations: Fastening vs. Unfastening Threaded Hardware By Jia-Hua Lin, Raymond W. McGorry, and Jacob Banks Accuracy of the Borg CR10 Scale for Estimating Grip Forces Associated with Hand Tool Tasks By Raymond W. McGorry, Jia-Hua Lin, Patrick G. Dempsey, and Jeffrey S. Casey Members can access the full text of JOEH articles via the AIHA® website at www.aiha.org. Abstracts are available to everyone at http://oeh.informaworld.com. Members can also access the full-text archives of the AIHA Journal from 1940 to 2003. Full-text archives of Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene from 1999 to 2003 are also available.