AIHA's 2022 Annual Report

AIHA’s 2022

Annual Report

aiha.org

American Industrial

Hygiene Association

3141 Fairview Park Drive

Suite 777

Falls Church, VA 22042

AIHA’s Highlights

and Successes

Dear AIHA member,

With 2022 in our rearview mirror, I’m pleased to highlight some of AIHA’s achievements

in the past year. You will nd that your association is heading in the right direction to

further empower and sustain the profession of occupational and environmental health

and safety (OEHS).

I’m delighted to report strong progress across all ve domains of the AIHA strategic plan. Most notably:

• AIHA held two successful conferences: the hybrid AIHce EXP 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee, which

welcomed 3,000 onsite attendees and 1,100 more online participants, and the Product Stewardship

Society’s PSX 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky, attended by nearly 300 registrants.

• The association has launched a series of new working groups and initiatives, including:

– The new Thermal Stress and Dermal and Surface Sampling working groups and the PR(IH)DE special

interest group.

– Commit to C.A.R.E. (commit2care.org), a public awareness initiative aimed at pandemic prevention and

control for small businesses.

– The Spanish language translation of The Role of an Industrial Hygienist in a Pandemic.

• AIHA offered active military members a discounted rate for AIHA membership, for the rst time.

• The Dening the Science Advisory Group created a new research and development ofcer position for all

technical committees and expanded awareness of our OEHS research agenda to NIOSH.

• The Standards of Care, State of the Art vs. Practice, and Improving Exposure Judgments Initiatives, the

last of which included a free course on accurate exposure risk decision-making that allowed attendees

to earn eight contact hours. The association secured an additional $110k cooperative agreement

grant from NIOSH to develop more knowledge products that educate small businesses about airborne

transmitted diseases and indoor air quality during pandemics, bringing our total to $620k.

• The association, with the support of approximately 350 members, authored government relations

documents on a range of topics, including a request for information from the Environmental Protection

Agency on recommendations to improve the IAQ of buildings.

• AIHA joined the [Re]Build America’s Schools Infrastructure Coalition (BASIC) to promote healthy schools.

• AIHA Prociency Analytical Testing (PAT) Programs launched a new program on airborne particulates.

• AIHA Laboratory Accreditation Programs (LAP) LLC was recognized by the U.S. Food and Drug

Administration to accredit food labs under FDA’s Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Food (LAAF)

Program.

This annual report offers a glimpse into our 2022 successes. I hope that as you read it, you’re motivated

to join AIHA in our future endeavors. I also invite you to visit our website www.aiha.org and follow us on

social media to get a more comprehensive view of our work.

As always, these achievements would not have been possible without our volunteers, and AIHA offers you

our sincerest thanks. Whether you’re a member of the Board of Directors or a volunteer group, an author or

peer reviewer for The Synergist, an AIHA webinar presenter, or a speaker at the AIHce Nexus lounge—no

matter how you invested your time, you’ve helped raise the bar for the profession.

Thank you for helping AIHA make a difference!

Sincerely,

Lawrence D. Sloan, FASAE, CAE

Chief Executive Ofcer, AIHA

“I’m excited to bring you

AIHA’s 2022 Annual Report.”

NOTE

Support Services include: Executive, Board, Information Technology,

Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, Business Ofﬁce support

Member Benet Programs include: Member and Customer Relations,

Professional Communities, Scientiﬁc and Technical Initiatives,

Career and Employment Programs, Public Relations, Local Sections,

and Government Relations

The Healthier

Workplaces Show

The Healthier Workplaces

Show is a bi-monthly video

podcast highlighting the efforts

of industry professionals who

protect workers and their

communities from occupational

and environmental hazards. Each episode covers

various timely, informative topics about industrial

hygiene and environmental health and safety issues as

the hosts speak with professionals from various sectors

of the eld. The rst episode debuted on September 7,

2022; eight episodes were produced in 2022.

In 2023, new episodes of the Healthier Workplaces

Show will drop the rst and third Wednesday of each

month. They can be found at www.healthierworkplaces.

org and on all major podcast streamers, such as

Amazon, Spotify, Google, Pandora, Podbean, and more.

Search for “Healthier Workplaces” on your favorite

podcast site to get started.

The Synergist

Our award-winning magazine

serves OEHS professionals. In

2022, the three most popular

articles published in the digital

Synergist were:

• “Common Properties of Air”

(aiha.info/syn2203air)

• “The Challenge for Industrial

Hygiene 4.0: A NIOSH

Perspective on Direct-

Reading Methodologies and Real-Time Monitoring in

Occupational Environments” (aiha.info/syn2204ih4)

• “Analysis of Wildre and Structure Fire Combustion

Residues: Microscopy Methods and Other

Considerations” (aiha.info/syn2208re)

Consultants Listing

AIHA’s popular consultants listing concluded another

successful renewal season, featuring nearly 350

member businesses.

2022 Expenses

• Member Benet Programs $3,041,000 = 18%

• IRAT $305,000 = 2%

• Support Services $1,574,000 = 10%

• Meetings, Education, Publications $6,129,500 = 37%

• LAP $1,744,000 = 11%

• PAT $3,154,000 = 19%

• REG $549,000 = 3%

IRAT

Support

Services

Member

Benet

Programs

Meetings, Education,

Publications

PAT

LAP

REG

American Industrial

Hygiene Foundation (AIHF)

• Student scholarships awarded: 42

• Total scholarship amount awarded: $125,350

• New AIHF Scholarships: 2

AIHA 2022 Donations and

Microgrants

• $20,000 to the Occupational Hygiene Training

Association (OHTA)

• $5,000 to UNICEF to aid children in Ukraine

• $31,680 total in microgrant funding to

12 organizations

Membership by the Numbers

• 93% retention rate

• 7% new members

• 2% attrition rate

• Membership by the Numbers:

– Early Career Professional 15%

– Full 71%

– International 4%

– Emeritus 3%

– Student 6%

– Other 1%

Local Sections

Over the course of 2022, AIHA spent more than

$200,000 on local sections. These funds provided

services such as dedicated staff support, leadership

development, ofcer training, website hosting,

and community management via Catalyst. There

are now 64 local sections, including international

sections. We are also pleased to report that 24

universities currently sponsor student local sections.

Volunteer Groups

In 2022, several new volunteer groups were added

to AIHA’s 55-plus technical and professional

development volunteer groups. These include:

• The Academic Advisory Group

• The AIHA Grand Challenge Project

• The Climate Change Adaptation Task Force

• The Dening the Science Advisory Group

• The Human Capital/Environmental, Social, and

Governance Task Force

Catalyst Community

The members-only Catalyst forum, now in its third

year, includes 420 communities. AIHA’s members

consistently participate on a level exceeding the

standard benchmarks in the association industry,

receiving an A rating from Higher Logic, the platform

provider.

Catalyst by the Numbers:

• Unique contacts: 16,939

• Total logins: 59,655

• Unique logins: 39.5% (compared to goal of 20%)

• Average Daily Digest open rate: 25%

(compared to goal of 17–21%)

• Average real-time open rate: 36.5%

(compared to goal of 30–35%)

New AIHA Publications for 2022

• A Resource for Respiratory Protection Programs,

technical framework

• Understanding and Applying ARECC to

Occupational and Environmental Health and

Safety, competency framework

• Biological Monitoring: A Practical Field Manual,

second edition

• Recognition, Evaluation, and Control of Legionella

in Building Water Systems, second edition

• The CPPS study guide and ash cards

• The SDS and Label Authoring Registry study guide

• The Noise Manual, sixth edition

• Decommissioning Process for Chemotherapy

Hoods, fact sheet

• Improving the Safety Climate of Your Construction

Site guidance document

• AIHA Total Exposure Health Aspects of Total

Worker Health: Advancing Worker Well-Being

guidance document

Future Leaders Institute

AIHA hosted Future Leaders Institute and graduated

37 people from the 2022 class. Attendees came from

around the world to this event sponsored by Amazon

with contributions from 3M. Thanks to the Stephen C.

Davis Memorial Grant, two students, from Zambia and

the United Kingdom, were able to attend.

AIHce EXP

AIHce EXP 2022 debuted as AIHA’s

rst hybrid conference. On-site

events were held in person in

Nashville, Tennessee, while half of

the program was livestreamed to a virtual audience.

This year, the conference welcomed 2,848 in-person

and 1,135 virtual attendees.

The revamped conference featured two keynote

sessions, nearly 200 educational, pop-up, and

main stage sessions, 47 professional development

courses, 175 exhibitors, three learning pavilions, 14

innovation stations, 21 health and wellness sessions,

and six professional and student poster sessions. An

enhanced Nexus Lounge for students and early career

professionals featured a “Lessons in Leadership”

program presented by AIHA’s named award winners,

volunteer group and committee members, the

conference keynote speakers, other special guests,

and AIHA Board members. In addition, the conference

provided numerous networking opportunities for

OEHS professionals.

The association extends many thanks to our eight

key sponsors for the 2022 conference: Casella, SGS

Galson, Bureau Veritas, Dräger, DuPont, TSI, SKC, and

VelocityEHS.

AIHF hosted the 36th Annual Fun Run, with Amazon

as the premier sponsor. The event raised nearly

$17,000 for the foundation’s various scholarship

funds.

AIHce EXP 2023 will take place in Phoenix, Arizona,

on May 22–24, 2023. The conference will offer both in-

person and virtual participation methods.

Government Relations

In 2022, volunteer engagement

in government relations soared

by more than 260 percent

compared to the previous year,

demonstrating members’ high level of interest

in working with policymakers to protect more

workers and their communities. For example, AIHA

members were featured at a White House summit

on indoor air quality, spoke at the rst-ever meeting

of the National Integrated Heat Health Information

System, presented to more than 3,000 attendees

at an OSHA stakeholder meeting on heat-related

hazards, and testied on COVID-19 regulations. Your

fellow volunteers also commented on more than 50

legislative and agency actions, voicing their technical

expertise to policymakers to help improve the

health and safety of workers and their communities

throughout the nation.

This year, AIHA has a new set of public policy priorities

for noise, thermal stress, improving learning and

working conditions in schools, and encouraging more

students to pursue careers in OEHS. These policy

priorities will guide AIHA’s work and engagement

with policymakers through 2023 and beyond, while

still ensuring that other OEHS public policy issues are

covered.

The Hamilton Club’s primary goal is to further the

mission of creating knowledge to protect worker

health through strong partnerships and collaboration

with our most engaged industry suppliers. Just as

Alice Hamilton’s work exerted a profound inuence on the eld of industrial hygiene, AIHA’s Hamilton Club

partners are thought leaders and contributors who, through their innovation and expertise, are helping shape

the future of the profession.

Many thanks to all of our Hamilton Club partners that supported the association’s work in 2022: SKC,

Amazon, EMSL Analytical Inc., SGS Galson, Casella, AccuTec-IHS, Assay Technology, Dräger Inc., Gasmet,

Nanozen, TSI Incorporated, and VelocityEHS.

AIHA University

• 126,313.75 credit hours provided

• 5,728 professionals served, with an average of 22 credit hours per person

• More than 100 e-learning products available, not counting AIHce EXP

sessions or publications

• A new e-certicate program, titled “Use of Direct Reading Instruments”

• A virtual professional development course week that offered training in a

variety of topics, including exposure statistics and variability, leadership soft

skills, and communicating science and technical concepts

Save the Dates

AIHce EXP 2023

• May 22–24

Phoenix, Arizona

AIHA Road Course Fundamentals of

Industrial Hygiene

• March 13–16, 2023 | In-Person Event

Westerville, Ohio

• July 17–21, 2023 | Virtual Event

• September 11–14, 2023 | In-Person

Event

Westerville, Ohio

PSX (Product Stewardship Conference)

• October 17–19, 2023

Boston, Massachusetts

AIHA Road Course, Exposure and

Chemical Monitoring – Beyond Industrial

Hygiene Fundamentals

• October 9–11, 2023 | In-Person Event

Columbus, Ohio

Product Stewardship Society

• Increased organization-based team

membership by 60 percent, to 43 team

members

• Increased overall membership by

17 percent

• Expanded the Stewardship On-Demand

Learning Library to include over 270 sessions

• Introduced two new CPPS exam prep resources:

the CPPS study guide and CPPS ash card set

PSX

PSX 2022, held in person in Louisville,

Kentucky, featured two keynote sessions and

book signings by the keynote speakers, 45

education sessions, and 17 partners in The

Exchange, which was reformatted with an exhibit hall layout.

The conference also offered a sponsored headshot cafe, six

partner showcases, a “rise and shine” breakfast presentation,

and multiple networking and engagement opportunities.

PSX 2023 will to be held October 17–19, 2023, in Boston,

Massachusetts.

AIHA Laboratory Accredited

Programs:

• Approved to accredit laboratories

under the FDA’s LAAF program

• Underwent a successful rebrand

that tells a story expressing the

value of LAP accreditation

• Added three new site assessors

and trained ve assessor

candidates, of which several

have microbiology and food lab

backgrounds

AIHA Prociency Analytical

Testing Programs:

• Launched the Airborne

Particulates analyte class,

under the IHPAT Program,

for laboratories that analyze

gravimetric samples in the range

of 0.05–5 milligrams (mg)

• Introduced the PAT Directory

Toolkit, a comprehensive

directory of current participants,

PAT report interpretation

guidance, and important dates to

note when looking at PAT reports

from lab partners

Registry Programs:

• Updated the Exposure Decision

Analysis Registry exam and

extended the registered specialist

term to a ve-year cycle

• Refreshed the SDS and Label

Authoring exam based on an

updated framework (scheduled

for release in 2023)

• Released online Asbestos

Analysts Registry applications for

AAR analysts and organizations

AIHA LLCs

Career Services Through CareerAdvantage

• Average number of searchable monthly jobs: 3,960

• Average number searchable resumes: 1,590

• Resume critique sessions, year round: 67

• Career counseling sessions, year round: 42