Event Details

Session Details:

We are in challenging times. Times that require our resolve to stay the course on behalf of the people we serve and identify and implement innovative solutions. Times that require growth and change in occupational health and hygiene. Why? Our current strategies, systems, models, and approaches are not working. Around the globe and locally, we are not effectively preventing chronic non-communicable occupational disease. We need to do things differently. The time is upon us for innovation including new ways of thinking. What does innovation in occupational health and hygiene look like? It includes integrated, holistic approaches, impactful partnerships, it is silo free, it is meaningful investment in workers, families, and communities – investment in prevention and well-being, and it is aligned with efforts in social sustainability and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and other important strategies to future proof our world and its people– such that we leave no one behind. Together, let’s drive change in occupational health and hygiene.

Presenter:

Nancy Wilk is President of the International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA) and IOHA Board Director on behalf of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). Practicing comprehensive occupational hygiene since 1987, Nancy is a Senior Technical Director, EHS and Industrial Hygiene with WSP Canada Inc. located in Ontario, Canada. She is a Registered Occupational Hygienist with CRBOH, a Certified Industrial Hygienist with BGC (ABIH) and an AIHA Fellow. Nancy has received the 2024 ACGIH Meritorious Achievement Award, a 2023 Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) Distinguished Lecturer Award for bring Total Worker Health® approaches to the mining sector, the 2022 AIHA Women in Industrial Hygiene Aileen Yankowski Outstanding Leader of the Year Award, and the 2020 Occupational Hygiene Association of Ontario Hugh Nelson Award of Excellence in Occupational Hygiene. Nancy has a Master of Health Science degree specializing in Occupational Hygiene from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.