Each episode of the Healthier Workplaces Show covers timely and informative topics about industrial hygiene, environmental health, and safety issues to help you improve your workplace safety. In each episode, we speak with professionals from various industry sectors to explore workplace challenges, professional development opportunities, and solutions to today’s most pressing industrial hygiene and occupational safety challenges.
Episode 95 - How OEHS Professionals Can Support Emergency Response Departments
How OEHS Professionals Can Support Occupational Safety, Health, and Wellness Programs for Emergency Response Departments
Emergency responders routinely encounter complex occupational hazards that go far beyond active emergency response operations. Protecting worker health requires comprehensive programs that address everything from exposure assessment and risk management to fatigue, mental health, and emerging workplace hazards.
In this episode of AIHA’s Healthier Workplaces Show, host Alejandro Castillo welcomes Laura Weems, CIH, CSP, CHMM, Safety & Occupational Health Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy and co-author of AIHA’s white paper, How OEHS Professionals Can Support Occupational Safety, Health, and Wellness Programs for Emergency Response Departments.
Their discussion explores why AIHA developed this new resource, the value OEHS professionals bring to emergency response organizations, the importance of differentiating Incident Safety Plans from long-term occupational health and wellness programs, and how organizations can better prepare for evolving risks through an all-hazards approach.
Listen to this discussion that covers the importance of protecting emergency responders and strengthening occupational safety, health, and wellness programs across emergency response departments.
Read the white paper here: https://www.aiha.org/education/white-papers/how-oehs-professionals-can-support-occupational-safety-health-and-wellness-programs-for-emergency-response-departments
10 Sept 2026
Episode 94 - From Classroom to Workplace: Jacey Johnson’s Journey into Industrial Hygiene
In this episode of Season 5 of AIHA’s Healthier Workplaces Show, host Alejandro Castillo speaks with Jacey Johnson about her experiences as an industrial hygiene graduate student and global workplace safety intern at a General Motors manufacturing facility.
Jacey graduated from Northern Michigan University in May 2025 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Environmental Science. She is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health in environmental health sciences and industrial hygiene at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
During her internship, Jacey worked on industrial hygiene projects involving occupational noise, hearing conservation, and air sampling for hexavalent chromium fumes in welding areas. She later presented her work at General Motors’ Manufacturing Intern Day in Warren, Michigan.
Listen to learn how Jacey is applying her education in a real-world manufacturing environment, developing her understanding of workplace exposures, and building the knowledge and experience needed to protect worker health.
Topics include industrial hygiene education, workplace safety internships, occupational noise, hearing conservation, exposure assessment, air sampling, welding fumes, hexavalent chromium, manufacturing safety, environmental health sciences, and early-career opportunities in OEHS.
Host Alejandro Castillo interviews Dr. Vahid Ebadat about identifying and mitigating combustible dust explosion hazards in workplaces, offering insights into testing and control strategies.
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