Health in Construction

A couple of weeks ago I travelled down to Birmngham to give a talk on behalf of the BOHS Breathe Freely initiative at the Health and Wellbeing event at the NEC. The Title of the talk was Managing Health in Construction – What Good Looks Like. An annotated version of the slides I used during

Breathe Freely

On the evening of 28 April, Workers’ Memorial Day, the Breathe Freely initiative, which aims to raise awareness of respiratory disease in the construction industry, was launched at a reception at the Merchant Taylor’s Hall in London. The room was packed with 140 people, mainly representatives from the Construction industry. Breathe Freely is a collaborative

IOHA 2015

A couple of weeks ago I was in London attending the 10th International Scientific Conference of the International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA) organised by the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS). The conference was held in lieu of he usual annual BOHS Conference that normally takes place that time of the year. It was a step

BOHS Conference 2014

I’ve just about recovered from attending this year’s BOHS (British Occupational Hygiene Society) Conference that took place in the Hilton Nottingham on Tuesday to Thursday last week. In fact, the conference effectively started on Monday for me as like the last few years, I was running a Diploma exam “taster” day as one of the

Occupational Hygiene in a Changing World

A few weeks ago I had my first experience of delivering a webinar. Although I spend a lot of my time teaching face to face, and have regularly run telephone/web tutorials with small groups of students, I’ve never given a presentation over the Internet to a larger group. I’d decided I’d like to give it

BOHS Conference 2013

I’ve just about recovered from attending this year’s BOHS (British Occupational Hygiene Society) Conference that took place in the Hilton Hotel Manchester on Tuesday to Thursday last week. In fact, the conference effectively started on Monday for me as like the last few years, I was running a Diploma exam “taster” day as one of

Evaluating cold environments

Just a couple of days ago it was the first day of Spring. But it’s more like the middle of winter today in the north of England with heavy snow falling outside which has been blown around by a fairly strong wind. Perhaps the weather is appropriate as this week we’ve been running the BOHS/OHTA Module W502

Making an impact with presentations

Communication competencies and skills are often considered of lower priority than technical ones and yet they are critical to professional success. BOHS meetings have usually concentrated on technical issues, but to try to give more emphasis to other competencies that are needed by professionals the North West Region recently ran a meeting concentrating on communication

BOHS granted Royal Charter

I’m reproducing below a press release from the BOHS. Being granted a Royal Charter is a tremendous step forward for the Society.  It should, lead to more recognition and credibility for the profession of occupational hygiene. HM Queen approves Grant of Royal Charter for BOHS Published: 18/10/2012 12:04:15 The British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) is

Leadership

There’s been some debate about “leadership” within BOHS recently, with some discussion on the BOHS Linkedin forum and with a Workshop devoted to the issue at the BOHS Conference in Cardiff (presentation slides can be download from here). Last year, a number of your younger members were able to attend the Future Leader’s Institute run