AMERICAN

INDUSTRIAL

HYGIENE

ASSOCIATION

YUMA PACIFIC-SOUTHWEST SECTION

33rd ANNUAL MEETING

January
23– 25, 2008

The
Crowne Plaza Irvine

Irvine, CA

“In Search of Solutions –

Science, Impacts and

Maintaining an International
Economy”

CHRONOLOGY OF YPSW ANNUAL MEETINGS

Year

HOTEL

LOCATION

PAST PRESIDENTS

1976

LA COSTA INN

Carlsbad, CA

Ruth Patty

1977

TORREY PINES INN

La Jolla, CA

Herbert T. Walworth

1978

HILTON HAWAIIAN VILLAGE

Honolulu, HI

Lewis J. Cralley

1979

HILTON FLAMINGO HOTEL

Las Vegas, NV

George D. Clayton

1980

HALF MOON INN

San Diego, CA

Lester V. Cralley

1981

MARRIOTT HOTEL

Newport Beach, CA

Florence E. Clayton

1982

SURF AND SAND HOTEL

Laguna Beach, CA

Joseph T. Noe

1983

HOTEL LA
JOLLA

La Jolla, CA

Ralph E.
Allan

1984

HOTEL LA
JOLLA

La Jolla, CA

Ralph E.
Allan

1985

HAWAIIAN REGENT

Honolulu, HI
& S.S. Independence

George D. Clayton

1986

VISCOUNT HOTEL

San Diego, CA

Lester V. Cralley

1987

EMBASSY SUITES

Mandalay Beach Resort, Oxnard,
CA

Betty O’Shea

1988

VISCOUNT HOTEL

San Diego, CA

James H. Sterner

1989

ARIZONA INN

Tucson, AZ

James O.
Pierce

1990

EMBASSY
SUITES

La Jolla, CA

Terry Thedell

1991

EMPRESS
HOTEL

La Jolla, CA

Charles
Powell

1992

EMPRESS
HOTEL

La Jolla, CA

Barbara Cohrssen

1993

EMPRESS HOTEL

La Jolla, CA

Jack E. Peterson

1994

TRAVELODGE

San Diego, CA

Ted C. Johnson

1995

MISSION INN

Riverside, CA

Ralph E. Allan

1996

BALBOA BAY CLUB

Newport Beach, CA

George D. Clayton

1997

EMPRESS HOTEL

La Jolla, CA

Jack E. Peterson

1998

CRUISE to ENSENDADA

Royal Caribbean

Jaswant Singh

1999

TRAVELODGE

San Diego, CA

Terry Thedell

2000

BALBOA BAY CLUB

Newport Beach, CA

Judith F. Stockman

2001

HILTON PALM SPRINGS RESORT

Palm Springs, CA

Ted C. Johnson

2002

OHANA KEAUHOU BEACH RESORT

Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Jack E. Peterson

2003

BAY CLUB HOTEL  & MARINA

San Diego, CA

William Krebs

2004

CRUISE to ENSENDADA

Royal Caribbean

John Pendergrass

2005

BAY CLUB HOTEL & MARINA

San Diego, CA

Alice Farrar

2006

THE CROWNE PLAZA

Irvine, CA

Robert Soule

2007

BAY CLUB HOTEL  & MARINA

San Diego, CA

Frank Parker III

Executive
Committee

President                                          Hamid
Arabzadeh

President-Elect                               Chris
Laszcz-Davis

Past
President                                       Frank
Parker

Secretary-Treasurer                            Douglas
Davis

Board
of Directors                                Peter
Bellin

Anna
Davis

Robert
Wheeler

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2008

3:30 PM                            Registration                                                                   Catalina
I

4:00 PM                            Business
Meeting                                                          Catalina
I

Hospitality Room             Open
following Business Meeting                                             Suite 1402

(Group Dinners Arranged or On Your Own)

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2.0 CM Points for full meeting
– 0.5 points for each half day – ABIH Approval #07-3480

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008

Catalina I

8:30 AM
WELCOME
Hamid Arabzadeh, MS,
CIH

YPSW
President

8:45 AM                           PROGRAM
INTRODUCTION                                 Chris
Laszcz-Davis, MS, CIH, REA

YPSW
President-Elect

9:00 AM - NOON              GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE                                (Break
10:00-10:15 AM)

§
“Health & Environmental
Consequences”, George Luber, PhD, Associate Director, Global Climate
Change, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry, US Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA

§
“One International
Company’s Challenges--Global Climate Change & Energy Issues”,
Zack Mansdorf, PhD, CIH, CSP, Vice President, EH&S, L’Oreal
Worldwide, Paris, France

§
“Critical Downstream
Issues--Water and Waste”, Soroosh Sorooshian, PhD, Distinguished
Professor, International Hydrology and Climate Change, UC Irvine, CA and is one
of eleven UC
Irvine scientists contributing to the ground-breaking reports published in
recent years by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
which share the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore.

12:00
NOON                    GROUP
LUNCH (Catalina II)

1:15 - 4:45 PM                 RENEWABLE
ENERGY SOURCES                          (Break 2:45 - 3:00 PM)

§
“Renewable Energy
Sources—New Fuels, New Issues”, Don Lucas, PhD, Deputy
Director, Environmental, Health & Safety Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, University
of California, DOE, Berkeley, CA.

§
“California’s Energy Agenda”, John Geesman,
JD, Commissioner, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA

§
“Renewable Energy
Alternatives—Corporate Initiatives, Sustainability and Potential EH&S
Implications”, Rick Zalesky, Vice-President, Bio-fuels and Hydrogen,
Chevron Corporation, San Francisco,
CA

MANAGING A GLOBAL EH&S AGENDA

§
“Globalization of Industrial
Hygiene—Product Safety and Supply Chain Issues”, Jas Singh,
PhD, CIH, Senior Consultant, Golder Associates Inc., Kamuela, Hawaii

5:30 PM
Hospitality Room Opens (Group Dinners Arranged or On Your Own)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2008

Catalina
I

8:30 - 11:00 AM               MANAGING
A GLOBAL EH&S AGENDA (Continued)    (Break 10:00 -10:15 AM)

§
“Setting Global Environmental
Health & Safety Standards”, Susan Ripple, MS, CIH, Technical
Leader, Global Industrial Hygiene Expertise Center, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI

§
“US Profile--Environmental
& Occupational Standards Setting”, Dwight Culver, MD, Clinical
Professor of Medicine’s Epidemiology Division, School of Medicine, and
recent appointee to Governor Schwarznegger’s State Scientific Guidance
Panel, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

§
“Green Chemistry in
California: A Framework for Leadership in Chemicals Policy and Innovation”,
Michael Wilson, PhD, MPH, Assistant Research Scientist, School of Public
Health, UC Berkeley and recent appointee to the Cal/EPA Green Chemistry Science
Advisory Panel, Berkeley, CA.

§

11:00 AM – NOON           ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

§
National AIHA, Lindsay
Booher, MS, CIH, CSP, President-Elect; Manager, Global Occupational Health Center
of Excellence, Exxon Mobil Corp.

§
Steven Davis,
AIHA Executive Director, Fairfax,
VA

§
ACGIH, Larry Gibbs, MEd,
MPH, CIH, Chairman; Associate Vice-Provost for EH&S, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, CA

§
Academy (AIH), John
Mulhausen, PhD, CIH, Past-President; Corporate Director, Safety &
Industrial Hygiene, 3M Company; Adjunct Professor, U. of Minnesota School of
Public Health; St. Paul, MN.

NOON                             GROUP
LUNCH (Catalina II)

1:15 - 2:15 PM              ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES”— (continued)

§
ABIH, Barbara Dawson, CIH,
CSP, Chair; Global Occupational Health Competency Leader, Dupont, Wilmington, DE

§
AIHF, David Downs, MS,
CIH, CSP, QEP, CPEA, President; President, EHS Management Partners, LLC, Shorewood, MN.

§
IOHA, Tom Grumbles,
MS, CIH, Incoming President -Elect; Manager, Product Safety & Occupational
Health, SASOL North America, Houston,
TX.

2:15 -2:30 PM                 PROPOSAL

§
David Downs, AIHF
President

2:30 - 2:45 PM                BREAK

2:45
- 4:45 PM                FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STRATEGIC
INITIATIVES

§
NIOSH, Frank Hearl, MS,
PE, Chief of Staff, Washington
DC

§
OSHA, Chuck Adkins, CIH,
Regional Administrator, Kansas City,
KS (invited)

§
National AIHA
Governmental Affairs View—Impact on Profession”, Aaron Trippler,
Director, Governmental Affairs, National AIHA, Fairfax, VA

4:45 - 5:00 PM            CLAYTON AWARD PRESENTATION

5:00 - 5:15 PM            WRAP
UP & CONCLUSIONS
Hamid Arabzadeh & Chris
Laszcz-Davis

5:30 PM
Hospitality
Room Opens

7:30 PM                       GROUP
BANQUET

(Catalina II)

§
“An Outsider’s View of
the Key Challenges Facing EH&S”, Stephen Minter, Publisher &
Editorial Director, Occupational Hazards Magazine, Cleveland, OH

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2008

9:00 AM - Noon
Brunch
with YPSW President Hamid Arabzadeh and Family, Family Home

Biographical Information - Speakers

George Luber, PhD

Dr. George Luber is
an Epidemiologist and the Acting Associate Director for Global Climate
Change for the National
Center for Environmental
Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  His research interests include the
epidemiology of harmful algal blooms and the health effects of climate change.  Most recently, his work has focused on
the epidemiology and prevention of heat-related illness and death, the
development of municipal heat response plans, and the application of remote
sensing techniques to modeling vulnerability to heat stress in urban
environments.  In addition to his leadership role in the Global Climate
Change Workgroup at CDC, Dr. Luber is a co-chair of the Human Contributions and
Responses/Decision Support Interagency Work Group for the US Climate Change
Science Program.

Zack Mansdorf, PhD,
CIH, CSP

Zack is the Senior Vice
President for Safety, Health and Environment for L’Oreal North America
and Worldwide.  He has been at the
French based L’Oreal since 2000 and spent 5 years at the company
headquarters in Paris returning to the
L’Oreal technical center in Clark,
New Jersey in 2005.  Zack is a member of the senior
management committee of L’Oreal and actively participates in their
Sustainability efforts.  He splits
his time between Clark, NJ and Paris where he has an apartment.  L’Oreal has approximately 65,000
employees worldwide and sales of approximately 17 Billion Euros.  L’Oreal operates in more than 120
countries worldwide.  L’Oreal USA has
approximately 8,000 employees.  Zack
is a CIH, CSP and QEP.  He attended
several schools with Masters Degrees in both industrial and environmental health
and safety, as well as a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Kansas. Zack is well published and has
served as the President of AIHA and AIHF.
He also served on the Board of Certified Safety Professionals.  Zack is a past recipient of the AIHA
Cummings Award.

Soroosh Sorooshian, PhD

Dr. Sorooshian is a
Distinguished Professor, International Hydrology and Climate Change, UC Irvine,
CA and is one of the eleven UC Irvine scientists contributing to the
ground-breaking reports published in recent years by the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which will share the 2007 Nobel
Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore.

Dr. Sorooshian received his
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA,
his Masters in Systems Engineering from UCLA, and his Doctorate in Engineering
from UCLA. He has received numerous awards during his distinguished career,
receiving NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2005.

Don Lucas, PhD

Donald Lucas is currently the
Deputy Director for the Environmental, Health, and Safety Division at the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He also performs research in the
Environmental Energy Technologies Division at LBNL and the School of Public Health
at the University of California, Berkeley.
He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from UC Berkeley. His current research involves the
production, detection, and health effects associated with combustion emissions,
especially from nanoscale particles. He was an author on the SB521 report to
the Governor of California that recommended a ban on MTBE in gasoline. He works
with the California EPA and Air Resources Board as a scientific peer reviewer
and with their Multi-Media Working Group.

John Geesman, JD

John L. Geesman was originally appointed as a Commissioner on the
California Energy Commission in 2002 to fill an un-expired term, reappointed to
a full five-year term by Governor Gray Davis on December 31, 2002, and
ultimately confirmed by the Senate.
He currently fills the Attorney position on
the five member Commission where 4 of the 5 members by
law are required to have professional training in specific
areas—engineering or physical science, environmental protection,
economics and law.  Commissioner
Geesman serves as --Presiding Member of the Energy Commission’s
Renewables Committee and the Facility Siting Committee; and Associate Member on
the Research, Development and Demonstration Committee, the Electricity
Committee, and the Integrated Energy Policy Report Committee. Commissioner
Geesman rejoined the Commission after originally serving as its Executive
Director from 1979 to 1983.  From
1983 to 2002, he was an investment banker specializing in the debt
markets.  During this time, he
served as Chairman of the California Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board,
Chairman of the Board of Governors of the California Power Exchange and as a
member of the Board of Governors of the Independent Systems Operator.  In November 2006, he was elected
co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Council on Renewable
Energy (ACORE), having served previously on their Advisory Board. Commissioner
Geesman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale
University, and a Juris Doctorate
degree from Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley.

Rick Zalesky

Richard
E. (Rick) Zalesky is Vice President of the Biofuels and Hydrogen Business for
Chevron Technology Ventures Company.
In this role, he has responsibility
for the commercialization of infrastructure development, production and supply,
as well as all current technology initiatives. A native of Los Angeles,
California, he is a graduate of
the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a bachelor’s degree in Civil
Engineering. Rick joined the company in 1978 as a design engineer at the
Richmond
refinery. In his career, he has held a variety of management positions of
increasing responsibility in the downstream in refining, marketing, and technology.  Prior to his current role, Rick was
general manager of the Richmond Refinery. Rick is Chevron’s primary
coordinator for the FreedomCAR and Fuel Program of the Department of Energy
(DOE) and a member of the UC Davis External Research Advisory Board.

Jas Singh, PhD,
CIH

Dr. Singh is a Senior
Consultant with Golder Associates, a Global EHS consulting firm with over 6,000
employees in 26 countries. Jas is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) and
has served on the Board of Directors of the American Industrial Hygiene
Association (AIHA) and the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH). He is
currently the President-elect of the Academy of Industrial Hygiene (AIH).  Jas has
provided consulting services to industrial and institutional clients and governmental
agencies in the USA as well
as in Canada.
For the past 10 years, Dr. Singh has focused on the South East Asian countries
providing Industrial Hygiene and Safety consulting services to multinational
companies in the region. In 2005, Dr. Singh received the American Industrial
Hygiene Association’s (AIHA) “Distinguished Service Award” as
well as the “Henry Smyth Award” by the Academy of Industrial
Hygiene (AIH).

Susan Ripple, MS, CIH

Susan Ripple is the Science
and Technical Manager in the Global Industrial Hygiene
Expertise Center
for The Dow Chemical Company in Midland,
Michigan.   She holds an MS in Toxicology from
the University of
Houston and a graduate
fellowship in Biomedicine at Baylor College of Medicine.  Ripple has been a certified, practicing
Industrial Hygienist for Dow for >20 years.  Susan leads the technical advancement
activities of industrial hygiene at Dow, and her technical expertise is
advocacy and policy science interfaces with EPA, OSHA and other regulatory
agencies and legislators.  She also
leads the setting of both internal and external OELs on Dow’s
behalf.  Ripple manages over 200
internal Dow OELs, has served 13 years on the AIHA WEEL Committee (including
Chair), and works with both California and Federal OSHA PEL update projects,
serving as a member of the 2007-2010 California OSHA PEL Advisory
Committee.  She is also lead member
of the AIHA Control Banding group, the AIHA Emergency Response Planning
Guideline Committee (Vice-Chair), authoring 15 ERPGs for publication in her
13-year tenure.  Ripple currently
serves as the AIHA representative to the EPA’s AEGL Committee.

Dwight Culver, MD

Dr. Culver, a Diplomate of
the American Board of Preventive Medicine (Occupational & Environmental
Medicine), attended both the University of Rochester School of Medicine &
Dentistry (MS Occupational Medicine) and Stanford University School of Medicine
(MD). His long and distinguished career included Medical Director roles within both the California State Health Department,
Bureau of Adult Health and Aerojet General Corporation’s Azusa Facility.
From 1968-1972, he was President and Chairman, Systemed Corporation, with
responsibility for Wright Patterson Air Force Base’s Toxic Hazards
Research Unit, under contract with the USAF, Systems Command. He moved onto
assuming the role of Co-Director, Cancer Surveillance Program, Division of
Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, UC Irvine from 1988-2004; Director,
Residency Training Program in Occupational Medicine, Department of Community
and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine at UC Irvine; and Clinical
Professor, Occupational Medicine, College of Medicine, UC Irvine. He is
presently Professor, Department of Epidemiology, College
of Medicine, UC Irvine; member of both
UC Irvine’s Comprehensive
Cancer Center
and ACGIH’s Chemical Substance TLV Committee; and a Medical Consultant to
Rio Tinto’s US Borax Division. His awards are numerous, with some of the
most notable including the Rutherford T. Johnstone Award for Contributions to
Occupational Medicine in 2000 and ACGIH’s Herbert E. Stokinger Award for
significant contribution to the field of Industrial and Environmental
Toxicology in 2005. He has numerous publications and presentations to his
credit. He is also a recent appointee to Governor Schwarznegger’s State
Scientific Guidance Panel.

Michael Wilson, PhD, MPH

Michael P. Wilson, PhD, MPH,
is a research scientist at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
(COEH) at the School of Public Health, University
of California, Berkeley, where he conducts research and
practice in chemicals policy, green chemistry, occupational safety and health,
and sustainable production  (http://coeh.berkeley.edu/people/apers_educ/wilson.htm).
Dr. Wilson conducted his doctoral and masters work in environmental health
sciences at the University of California, Berkeley,
from 1996 to 2003.  He earned a bachelors degree in biology in 1984 from
the University of California, Santa
Cruz.  Dr. Wilson is the chief author of the 2006
report to the California Legislature, Green Chemistry in California: A Framework for Leadership in Chemicals Policy and
Innovation (http://coeh.berkeley.edu/greenchemistry/),
which has drawn renewed attention to the problems of chemical and product
management and the need for new policies that motivate and reward industry
investment in green chemistry. In July 2007, Dr. Wilson was appointed to the
California Green Chemistry Science Advisory Panel; in August, he was appointed
by California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez to the state’s
Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program Scientific Guidance Panel.

Lindsay Booher, MS, CIH, CSP

Currently President-Elect of
the National American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), Lindsay started
his career after graduating from John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of
Public Health with a Master’s Degree in Environmental Health Engineering/Industrial
Hygiene. He has held a number of roles over the past 20 years,
including—Industrial Hygiene Officer, US Navy Environmental &
Preventative Medicine Unit, Norfolk, VA; Industrial Hygiene Coordinator, Exxon
Corporation; Safety & Health Manager, Exxon Corporation, Baton Rouge, LA
Refinery; Industrial Hygiene Section Head, Exxon Biomedical Sciences, New
Jersey; Section Head, Air Quality Control & Environmental Site Remediation,
Exxon Research & Engineering Company; and Manager, Global Occupational Health
Center of Excellence, Fairfax, VA. His professional service activities are
many, including 7 years on the National AIHA Board. Lindsay is a National ASIHA
Fellow and former recipient of the National AIHA Kusnetz Award.

Larry Gibbs, MEd, MPH, CIH

Larry Gibbs is Chairman of
the ACGIH®, a professional membership association whose core
purpose is to advance occupational and environmental health. In his day job,
Larry is Associate Vice-Provost for Environmental Health and Safety at Stanford University, where he is responsible for
health, safety, and environmental risk management programs in addition to
oversight of institutional emergency planning and risk communication. Larry is
also a lecturer in occupational safety and health at the Stanford Institute for
the Environment.  Mr. Gibbs is a
certified industrial hygienist with over 25 years of experience in developing,
implementing and managing safety, health and environmental programs for
academic, research and clinical institutions.  In addition to his work at the
university, he serves as a consultant for industrial, pharmaceutical,
biotechnology and government organizations.  He has authored over 25 publications on
health, safety and environmental management, and co-authored two books.  In addition to his role on the ACGIH
Board, he is also on the Board of Directors of the National Association of
Environmental Managers (NAEM), is active in the AIHA and the Campus Safety
Health and Environmental Management Association.

John Mulhausen, PhD, CIH

Dr. Mulhausen is Director of Safety and
Industrial Hygiene at 3M Company where he is responsible for leadership of the
Corporate Safety and Industrial Hygiene organizations and oversight of safety
and industrial hygiene programs worldwide. Mulhausen is also an adjunct assistant
professor in the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Minnesota. He is the 2002 recipient of
the Edward J.
Baier Technical Achievement Award presented by AIHA to the individual, company
or organization that has made the most significant contribution to industrial
hygiene in recent years.  He is currently Past President of the Academy of Industrial Hygiene, a past Director of
AIHA, and a past chair of the AIHA Exposure Assessment Strategies Committee. He
is one of the authors of the committee’s monograph A Strategy for Assessing and Managing Occupational Exposures. He is
also co-author of "Comprehensive Exposure Assessment", chapter 6 in The Occupational Environment - Its
Evaluation, Control, and Management. Mulhausen received his Ph.D. in
Environmental Health from the University
of Minnesota. He is a
Fellow of the AIHA and is certified in the Comprehensive Practice of Industrial
Hygiene by the ABIH.

David Downs, MS, CIH, CSP, QEP, CPEA

David Down’s background
includes over 35 years of technical and managerial experience in the
environmental health and safety field.
His experience spans EHS
Management Consulting, whose focus is enhancing the creation, measurement
and communication of EHS value in client organizations.  In this regard, he-- provides training
and development services to corporate, business unit and site EHS staff in
management tools and techniques; provides EHS program development services,
including EHS Manual development, EHS audits, special emphasis programs, worker
and supervisor training; develops procedures and tools for ISO 14001 assessment
and implementation; conducts ISO 14001/OHSAS 18001 system (Gap) Analyses;
develops Safety and Environmental Management System Assessment (SEMSA) tools ;
develops OSHA and EPA audit databases; and develops over 50 EHS training
modules. At Rust E&I, he was
responsible for the development of National EHS Management System services
including product development and training, managing a diverse Environmental
Department including Risk Assessment, Environmental Investigations, Site Characterization and Health/Safety personnel.  At
Control Data, he managed corporate environmental and industrial hygiene
services; developed and implemented model respiratory programs, hazardous
materials inventory database systems (including labeling), asbestos control
programs, Community Right-to-Know programs, and exposure monitoring programs;
developed specifications and implemented a corporate occupational health
database system. At IHE, he
conducted industrial hygiene and air pollution studies in a wide variety of
industrial settings, including electronics, semiconductor, fiberglass
fabrication, foundries, smelters, metals refining, steel mills, battery plants,
printing, plastics compounding and fabrications, food processing, plating,
paint mixing, medical device manufacturing, laboratories, and hospitals. He received his Bachelors (Industrial Safety)
and Masters Degrees (Industrial Hygiene) from Texas A & M
University. He is
presently President of the American Industrial Hygiene Foundation.

Tom Grumbles, MS, CIH

Tom Grumbles has 31 years of
experience in the petrochemical industry. He is currently Manager of Product
Safety and Occupational Health for Sasol North America Inc.,
and Global Coordinator for Product Stewardship, Olefins and Surfactants
Division. In North America, he manages
corporate product safety and product stewardship activities, including
transportation safety; occupational health, including toxicology and
epidemiology; industrial hygiene; and occupational medicine programs.

In the Global Coordinator
role, he has organized the efforts of  Sasol Germany,
Sasol Italy
and Sasol North America to implement product stewardship globally and, most
recently, has taken the lead in the effort to manage the
organization’s  REACH
compliance. Mr. Grumbles is currently the President Elect of the International
Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA) and Chair of the IOHA National
Accreditation Recognition (NAR) Committee.
NAR is the Committee that manages the process of reviewing country
accreditation/certification schemes for recognition against a set of
International minimum program elements.
Grumbles has recently served as the elected
President of the National American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA).
Previously, he served as Secretary of the association from 1996 to 1998. He is
a past winner of the AIHA Florence and Howard Kusnetz Outstanding Young
Hygienist Award (1991). He served as a member of the Joint Association Ethics
Task Force that revised the Industrial Hygiene Code of Ethics; served as both a
member and chair of the AIHA Audit Committee; and chaired the Ad-hoc
International Task Group that defined a specific path forward for AIHA in international
affairs.  He is currently Chair of
an ad hoc group developing research and data to demonstrate the
“value” of the occupational hygiene profession.  Grumbles received his Bachelor’s
Degree in Biology in 1974 from Transylvania
University, Lexington, Kentucky.
He went on to receive a Master’s Degree in environmental health with a
specialization in industrial hygiene and air pollution control from the
University of Cincinnati, Kettering Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1978. He
is certified in the Comprehensive Practice of Industrial Hygiene by the
American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH).

Frank Hearl, MS, PE

Frank Hearl is the Associate
Director for Program Development and the Chief of Staff for the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Mr. Hearl has been with
NIOSH for 34 years. He worked previously in the testing and certification
program for air sampling instruments; was the lead industrial hygienist on
studies of coal mine dust exposure, diesel emissions in coal mines, coal
liquefaction plants, and various studies related to silica, silicosis, and lung
cancer. He led the NIOSH component of an international project on silicosis and
lung cancer with the National Cancer Institute and the Tongji
Medical College
in Wuhan, China. Mr. Hearl was also the Team
Leader for the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Mixed Exposures
Team, and is presently the Program Manager for NIOSH’s Construction
Sector research program. He is a regular invited lecturer at George Washington
University and Hood College.
Mr. Hearl holds a Bachelors’ degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue
University (1974); and a Masters degree from M.I.T. (1980); and is licensed
Professional Engineer in Maryland and West Virginia.

Aaron Trippler

Aaron Trippler is Director of
Government Affairs for the National American Industrial Hygiene Association
(AIHA).  Mr. Trippler directs
government affairs for more than 70 local sections and is chief liaison with
Congress and the federal agencies. He has served in this capacity since 1992,
when he developed the AIHA government affairs program. In directing federal
affairs, Aaron is responsible for following all federal legislation and
regulations, as well as drafting AIHA Congressional testimony and working with numerous
federal agencies on the public policy issues of AIHA. Aaron also directs state
government affairs for AIHA, annually reviewing nearly 3,500 pieces of state
legislation and regulations affecting the profession of industrial hygiene and
testifying when needed. Aaron has 30 years experience in federal and state
government affairs; and has developed government affairs programs for three
national associations.  He holds a
BS degree in Business Administration.

Steve Minter

Stephen G. Minter became
Publisher and Editorial Director of OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS Magazine in October
2005. Occupational Hazards provides 72,000 readers
each month with news, articles and product information to help them manage EHS
functions in their organizations. He was named Editor in March 1989 and added
the responsibilities of Associate Publisher in January 2000. He was
instrumental in the design and editorial direction of the Occupational Hazards
Web site, which went online in 1999. He is responsible for the creation of
Occupational Hazards' family of specialized electronic newsletters, including
EHS TODAY, IH INSIGHTS and ERGONOMICS NEWS. He also led efforts to develop the
Champions of Safety and America’s
Safest Companies recognition programs and the annual National Safety Survey.  In 2002, he helped to create RESPONDER
SAFETY, a Website and e-newsletter devoted to the safety of emergency response
personnel. He joined Penton Media Inc in 1975 and came to the magazine in
January 1977 as an assistant editor. He became managing editor of the magazine
in March 1983. A graduate of Oberlin
College, he is an
award-winning author of more than 300 articles on occupational safety and
health topics. He is a member of the American Society of Business Publication
Editors. He and his wife, Nancy, have two children, Geoff and Sarah, and reside
in Bainbridge, Ohio.

Chris Laszcz-Davis, MS, CIH, REA

Chris Laszcz-Davis has over
34 years of increasingly responsible executive management, professional,
technical and consulting experience in environmental affairs, occupational
health and safety, operational integrity, risk management and product
stewardship in industry, government and consulting. Chris’s extensive
background encompasses several industries, including –nuclear, energy,
biomedical research, chemicals, refractories and aluminum in its full cycle of
mining, smelting, manufacturing and distribution. An undergraduate double major
(Biology/Chemistry), she went on to receive her graduate degree in
Environmental Health Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Following graduation in the early 1970s, she became the US Atomic Energy
Commission’s 1st environmental health/industrial hygiene
management intern stationed in Washington DC, with rotations through Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratories, Nevada Test Site, Oakridge, Los Alamos
and other GOCO operations. She went on to assume positions in several
organizations--U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Oakland, CA, as Regional
Manager, Medical & Environmental Health Programs; University of California,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, Field Industrial
Hygiene Engineer; 24 years with Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation in a
variety of operational, product and executive roles, both domestic and
international, eventually retiring as their Corporate Vice President,
Environmental Affairs, Health, Safety, Operational Integrity & Product
Stewardship; and five years ago, The Environmental Quality Organization, LLC
which provides a wide variety of EH&S management consulting skills and solutions
for small, medium and large organizations. Presently an Examiner, Malcolm
Baldrige National Quality Award, Chris is also a former President of the
AIHA-Northern California Section (NCS) and current President-Elect, Yuma
Pacific Local Section. Chris has served the national organizations over the
years in a variety of capacities—as a former National AIHA Board
Director; Chair of the National AIHA’s Local Sections Council; President,
American Academy of Industrial Hygiene (AIH); Director, American Board of
Industrial Hygiene (ABIH); Trustee, American Industrial Hygiene Foundation
(AIHF); ABIH Board delegate to the International Occupational Hygiene
Association’s Certification Recognition Committee; and recent appointment
as AIHA’s delegate to the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS)—to name a few. A National AIHA Fellow and recipient of the
National AIHA Kusnetz Award for outstanding contribution to the field,
Chris’s career demonstrates a forward approach in taking on challenges atypical
of traditional industrial hygiene career paths, but with expansion into broader
EH&S roles, both staff and operations.

Hamid Arabzadeh, MS, REA, CSP, CIH, CHMM

Hamid
Arabzadeh is the principal of HRA Environmental Consultants Inc and an Environmental
Health and Safety Manager at the University
of California, Irvine. He is a lecturer at the University of California,
Irvine Schools of Medicine and Engineering and
has taught at UCLA.  He teaches
courses in Advanced Environmental Health, Pollution Prevention Engineering,
Hazardous Materials Management and Environmental and Occupational Health.  Formerly, he was the Corporate Manager,
Industrial Hygiene at UNOCAL Corporation.
He is a Certified Emergency Response Incident Commander, Operations Chief,
and Safety Officer. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, a Certified Safety
Professional, a master level Certified Hazardous Materials Manager and a
Registered Environmental Assessor with California EPA. Hamid did his
undergraduate work at McGill University,
Montreal Canada
followed by his graduate degree from McGill
University’s, School of Occupational
and Environmental Health, in Science-Occupational Health and Safety. Hamid is
the Past President of the California Campus Environmental Health and Safety
Association (C.C.E.H.S.A.), President of AIHA Yuma Pacific Southwest Section, and  serves on
the executive boards of both the American Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA)
and Indoor Environmental Standards Organization (IESO).

Thanks to Chris Laszcz-Davis for the review and
proof reading of these bios.