The Sampler (September 2020) - AIHA BC-Yukon Local Section

September 2020

WELCOME BACK!

Welcome back members! We can't believe it's September already! Hopefully you've all had a safe summer and enjoyed some time in the great outdoors. The Executive Team has been working hard the past few weeks planning out new events for the 2020-2021 year, with the virtual platform in mind. While we understand the online experience is not the same as meeting in person, we hope that with the new technology in place, we can continue to meet monthly, learn new and interesting information, and maybe even socialize / network a little bit in some way?

Please join us for this year's kick-off meeting on September 16th (see details to the right). We look forward to seeing you (virtually) soon!

Thank you from the 2020-2021 Executive Team.

EVENTS CALENDAR

AIHA BC-YUKON SEPTEMBER MEETING

Date: September 16, 2020

Time: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Topic: Non-lethal & Non-invasive Analytical Methods for Monitoring Metals for the Improvement of Environmental & Human Health

Speaker: Dr. Jennie Christensen, PhD, RPBio, CEO & Founder of TrichAnalytics

Location: Virtual Meeting on TEAMs

To learn more about the event and to register, click on the button below.

AIHA BC-Yukon September Meeting Registration

WORLD CONGRESS ON SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK 2020

The World Congress on Safety & Health at Work is a global forum for advancing worker health protection, taking place every three years in a different country. The forum was scheduled to meet in Toronto in 2020 but has been postponed to September 2021 due to the on-going pandemic. Recently, the World Congress has decided to host a Special VIRTUAL Session on October 5-6, 2020 and will be dedicating the session to address how COVID-19 has affected the workplace and the future of work. The organizers have made this event FREE, but with limited space. To learn more about the event and to register, click on the button below.

Registration

COVID-19 SUBCOMMITTEE

As mentioned in past meetings, a group of AIHA BC-Yukon Members have joined forces to form the COVID-19 Subcommittee and have been cataloging a SharePoint with various COVID-19 resources available for your reference. As a reminder, it is important to ensure you reference credible and reputable sources performing your necessary due diligence when reviewing materials. These resources will continue to grow as we learn more about COVID-19. If you have any articles you'd like to contribute, please contact the Subcommittee here.

Visit COVID-19 Resource SharePoint

AIHA NEW LOGO

Did you notice that this issue of The Sampler has a whole new look? That's right! We've revamped to match the new colour scheme of the National AIHA rebranding.

"The 'American Industrial Hygiene Association' will now simply be: AIHA, the American association of occupational health and safety science professionals. We believe this refreshed identity (and more so, the power of our public awareness efforts that we will carry out with this rebranding effort) will help us be better understood and positioned for the future."

AIHA BRAND EVOLUTION

NEW WEBSITE IS HERE!

Written by Kevin Zhang

AIHA BC-Yukon has officially launched the newly designed and improved website. The overhaul to the website has provided some key updates listed below, in addition to some other smaller updates:

New hosting service to prevent security certificate check failure;
New and easier user interface;
Improved membership management module;
Improved membership historical event and membership tracking;
Improved event registration, allowance of multiple individuals to be registered by a single individual;
Improved payment options (credit card and offline payment);
Also allow credit card automatic renewals or one-time payment for membership; and
Secure member and open to public voting/survey.

With the new launch, some of the content from the older website will need to be migrated over. Unfortunately, due to different format of modules utilized, the migration will be a manual process. The Webmaster will be carrying out the migration over the next 2 months to ensure all records are properly transferred over. If you are a member and require your historical records immediately, please e-mail info@aihabc.org.

For existing active members, you will have received an e-mail informing you to reset your account password by accessing the website at www.aihabc.org. If the website indicates your e-mail does not exist in the system, it may be another e-mail address was previously used which the webmaster has uploaded as the account. If this is the case, please e-mail info@aihabc.org so we can change the e-mail associated with your account. Once you have access, you can also update your account information. Click here for a tutorial on how to log on to the new website and reset your password.

For members who have let their membership lapsed, please feel free to register a new account. New account registrations will automatically notify the Webmaster who will consolidate any existing old records to the new account.

Lastly, the website will be updated every third Sunday of each month for small or big updates for improvement. Depending on the style of update, the website may not be accessible during this time. This is to ensure the website is kept up to date for members.

We hope the newly refreshed website will provide members better access to everything AIHA BC-Yukon has to offer.