Latest Past Events

WSLH Board Presentation: Nanotechnology

Presenter: George Gruetzmacher, PhD, CIH, PE, Industrial Hygiene Consultant-Engineer, WSLH Description: The term nanoparticles has become a high-tech buzzword. Materials science is now developing extremely small particles that have new and different properties. Industrial Hygiene Consultant-Engineer George Gruetzmacher, PhD, CIH, PE, reviews the basics of nanotechnology, outlines issues regarding human health hazards, lists current uses […]

WSLH Board Presentation: Occupational Health Surveillance

Presentors: John Pfister, MS, Epidemiologist, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Description: Presentation on the WSLH occupational safety and health surveillance initiative and how it involves the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of available data on workplace injuries and illnesses. Since August, 2007, WSLH has been working to add value to the Wisconsin Workers […]