Synergist®
THE
Volume 21 ; Number 7
8 President’s Message
Operational Excellence
and Health Protection
By Mike Brandt
Editor in Chief
Constance Paradise, CAE: cparadise@aiha.org
Managing Editor
Ed Rutkowski: erutkowski@aiha.org
Assistant Editor
Brooke Morris: bmorris@aiha.org
Senior Manager, Periodicals and Technology
James Myers: jmyers@aiha.org
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Network Media Partners
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Executive Director
Peter J. O’Neil, CAE: poneil@aiha.org
10 Community
AIHA NEWS
20 Insight: Green Building
A Safer Shade of Green
By Melissa Ling
22 Insight: Professional Growth
It’s Getting Better All the Time
By Heather I. Thompson
and Bob Di Rienzo
31 NewsWatch
OEHS AND INDUSTRY NEWS
35 Opportunities
EDUCATIONAL EVENTS FOR
OEHS PROFESSIONALS
36 Product Features
37 Advertisers’ Index/
Synergist Fax-Back Card
38 Introductions
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Editorial Advisory Board Members
Jeff Behar, California Institute of Technology
Wendell Britnell, LMI
Patricia Crawford, Consultant
M. Cathy Fehrenbacher, U.S. EPA
Don Garvey, 3M Co.
Stephen Hemperly, Hitachi GST
Steven P. Levine, Emeritus Professor
John Mazur, MACTEC Inc.
Hank Muranko, Muranko & Associates
Doris Reid, Saxe Coleman Consulting Group
John Rekus, John F. Rekus & Associates Ltd.
COMING IN SEPTEMBER ; Training an International Work Force ; Exposures from the Gulf Oil Spill ; IAQ in Schools
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