2024 AIHA BC Yukon Industrial Hygiene Conference and Annual General Meeting - In Person & Online
Location: Delta Burnaby
Friday March 8th, 2024 7:30 am - 4:30 pm PST
We welcome all members of the industrial hygiene, safety, ergonomics, environmental, and public health community as well as anyone who wishes to know more about the current issues facing industrial hygiene, occupational safety and ergonomics professionals.
Featured Speakers
Topic - Unique Hazards in the Emerging Rare Earth Element Mining Industry in North America
Topic - An Industrial Hygiene Assessment of fentanyl and methamphetamine on public transit in the Pacific Northwest, USA
Topic - Method development and field sampling pilot for fentanyl and five other airborne illicit drugs
Topic - Better Exposure Risk Decisions for More Effective and Efficient Risk management
Topic - ILO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) drawing attention to healthy vision as being integral to safety and productivity at work
Topic - Occupational Hygiene Efforts in Wildland Firefighting
Our Partnership
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
Speaker Line-up and Schedule
Schedule is tentative and may subject to change as we finalize the speaker times
07:30 - 08:00
Registration/Breakfast
08:00 - 08:10
Welcoming Remarks - Bobby Sidhu, President of AIHA BC Yukon Local Section
08:10 - 08:20
Gold Sponsor Presentation - WSBC
08:20 - 09:20
Unique Hazards in the Emerging Rare Earth Element Mining Industry in North America - Courtney Gendron
09:20 - 10:20
Occupational Hygiene Efforts in Wildland Firefighting - Drew Lichty
10:20 - 10:30
Gold Sponsor Presentation - Teck
10:30 - 10:40
Break
10:40 - 11:40
Validating an Air Sampling and Analysis Method for Fentanyl and 5 Other Illicit Drugs - Marissa Baker and Matthew Jeronimo
11:40 - 12:10
Awards Presentation
12:10 - 12:15
Silver Sponsor Presentation - Levitt Safety
12:15 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 13:30
AGM Business Update - Bobby Sidhu and Rosanna Ma
13:30 - 14:30
Better Exposure Risk Decisions for More Effective and Efficient Risk management - John Mulhausen
14:30 - 14:40
Gold Sponsor Presentation - Concept Controls
14:40 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 16:00
ILO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) drawing attention to healthy vision as being integral to safety and productivity at work - Laurence Svirchev
16:00 - 16:30
Conference Wrap Up and Prize Draws
2024 AIHA BC Yukon Speaker Presentations and Recordings
The speaker presentations and recordings will be uploaded 30 days after the event are available to active members only. Login is required for access