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#American conference code

Over the next five decades, some of these Committees evolved and expanded, assuming different titles some became the purview of other organizations or agencies and some achieved their goals and ended their active roles.

#American conference code

The committees were charged to address the important industrial hygiene issues of the pre-War era: appraisal methods relationships with industry, labor, the medical profession and other agencies technical standards education uniform reporting of occupational diseases and other illnesses among workers administrative development of state activities industrial health code legislation and personnel. At its first meeting, NCGIH created nine standing committees. In January 2013, ACGIH members approved an amendment of the organization’s Bylaws, which created a single category of membership – a voting member – who must be employed at least 50% of his or her time in occupational or environmental health and safety.

Today, membership is open to all practitioners in industrial hygiene, occupational health, environmental health, and safety domestically and abroad.

#American conference full

In 1946, the organization changed its name to the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) and offered full membership to all industrial hygiene personnel within the agencies as well as to governmental industrial hygiene professionals in other countries. NCGIH originally limited its full membership to two representatives from each governmental industrial hygiene agency. This meeting was the culmination of concerted efforts by John J. Bureau of Mines, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Representatives to the conference included 76 members, representing 24 states, three cities, one university, the U.S. The independent National Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (NCGIH) convened on June 27, 1938, in Washington, D.C. This original goal is reflected in both our current mission – the advancement of occupational and environmental health – and in our tagline: Defining Science for OEHS Experts. During this time, ACGIH has grown and expanded without losing sight of its original goal – to encourage the interchange of experience among industrial hygiene workers and to collect and make accessible such information and data as might be of aid to them in the proper fulfillment of their duties. What began as a limited membership base has grown to the all-encompassing Voting Member category of today. For 85 years, ACGIH ® has been considered a well-respected organization by individuals in the industrial hygiene and occupational and environmental health and safety industry.