Gulf Coast ASSP North Section Meeting

Topic Lead Survey, Exposure Assessment, & Consulting Project Approaches From Industrial Hygiene Field Experience Including Summary Project Data Interpretation

Industrial hygiene consulting services have been performed for various clients addressing numerous hazardous materials, including conducting surveys & exposure assessment activities of occupational workplaces along the Texas Gulf Coast.   Following client definition of the project scope of work, conduct of lead surveys &/or ACM have been routinely addressed.  Defined site survey &/or industrial hygiene sampling strategies have been outlined including airborne exposure assessment with project documentation as well as data collection & interpretation of lab analytical results with information obtained from field site investigations.  Industrial hygiene challenges were encountered &/or impacted personnel involving strategy development & representative sample collection, site observations & screening techniques & submission of samples for lab analysis, data interpretation, & preparation of summary technical reports.  Client budget considerations must also be addressed to best meet defined workplace assessment or monitoring goals for anticipated resolution of exposure concerns or other further outlined areas of investigation.

Speaker Jan Koehn, MS, CIH, President JK, Inc.

Jan is President of JK, Inc., a full-service industrial hygiene consulting company, which has been in business & provided services within Texas & the U.S. for over 35 years. Jan has performed facility audits, designed complex sampling strategies, conducted site industrial hygiene & indoor air quality & also ambient airborne monitoring, & documented exposures for identified workplace chemical, physical, & biological hazards. Jan holds a B.S. from Texas A & M University in Microbiology & a M.S. degree from UT-School of Public Health in Environmental Sciences – Industrial Hygiene. She is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) issued by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH) in Comprehensive Practice. Jan has provided safety course instruction & an industrial hygiene sampling & analysis course at UofH-Clear Lake & an industrial hygiene instrumentation course at UofH-Downtown. She is a board member of the Gulf Coast Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) & as a director coordinates continuing education events in addition to the annual joint GC Professional Development Conference (PDC). She is national member of both the AIHA, as well as the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP).

Agenda

11:00 am to 11:30 Networking and lunch

11:30 am to 11:45 am Welcome and Section Business

• Welcome
• Sign In
• Introductions
• Old & New Business

11:45 am to 12:45 pm Presentation

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