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Diesel Exhaust Emissions, Exposure and Control

Join us for an insightful webinar designed to update the audience on diesel exhaust emissions including key challenges, best practices, and emerging trends in diesel exhaust exposure, equipping you with practical strategies to monitor workplaces and mitigate risks to improve worker health protection. This webinar will cover aspects such as monitoring diesel exhaust emissions and use of this data to better assist sites to reduce diesel emissions. It will also review personal monitoring, including the traditional submicron elemental carbon and upcoming workplace exposure limit for respirable elemental carbon. Real-time devices are becoming more commonly utilised to determine where and when exposure may be occurring, and the webinar will briefly discuss some areas for consideration.  Finally, the webinar will highlight some areas of control and wins that have been noted on sites

Presenters

Dr Jennifer Hines, Senior Occupational Hygienist

Jen is a Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH) and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH).  She has over 25 years of experience as an Occupational Hygienist, with a significant proportion of this in and around underground coal mining. Her PhD research focused on Emissions Based Maintenance to Reduce Diesel Engine Exhaust exposure, improve worker health and optimise fuel use. Reducing worker exposure to contaminants and thus preventing occupational illness and disease to workers in the underground mining environment has been a focal point of her career to date.

Peter Knott, MClinEpid, COH, FAIOH

Peter is a Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH)® and Fellow of the AIOH.  A lifelong hygienist, his career in occupational hygiene started in aluminium smelting, from there gaining experience in aluminium processing and fabrication, power generation, PPE manufacturing and mining in Australia and internationally.  He is currently a principal hygienist with GCG Health Safety Hygiene.  Peter has represented industry bodies on Australian Standards committees for workplace atmospheres, respiratory protection and hearing protection.  In 2021 Peter co-authored a paper awarded the Thomas Bedford Memorial Prize by the BOHS.  He has tertiary qualifications in Chemistry, Environmental Health and Epidemiology, and is currently a doctoral student in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Newcastle where he is researching the effect of lifetime occupational exposures to chemical mixtures on selected chronic diseases. 

Moderator

Dr Jane Whitelaw FAIOH, COH ®, CIH ®

Dr Jane Whitelaw is a Certified Occupational Hygienist and Fellow member of AIOH. She had over 25 years experience in the manufacturing industry before joining the University of Wollongong in 2009,  where she is currently Head of the OHS Discipline and the Academic Program Director. She is an Australian/New Zealand standards committee SF-10 Respiratory Protection and RESP-FIT Board member, and has recently completed a PhD in Medicine evaluating the physiological effects of respirator use in heavy industry. Educating the next generation of Occupational Hygienists is one of her passions and she is an active member of AIOH PD&E Committee, and OHTA Board member.